Labour Party vs. Article 10 ECHR
Last night’s episode of Question Time has raised many issues and much speculation. The most discussed issue will be addressed here, should the BNP be allowed on Question Time?
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides that “Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.”
The ability to speak one’s mind, to challenge current political orthodoxies and to criticise the policies of the Government without fear of recrimination by the state, is the distinction between life in a free country and life in a dictatorship. Freedom of expression is a right that by its existence provides other rights that our society enjoys. This right that in my opinion gave Nick Griffin the right to appear on Question Time also gave the protesters outside of television centre the right to express their view (in conjunction with Article 11 ECHR) as shown in Hashman v UK.
Ubuntu’s Notify-OSD in Fedora 11
Ok there have been a few posts on compiling notify-osd from source and running it, the methods are usually quick and dirty. This method is completed by installing RPMs and will provide a working notify-osd setup for already compliant programs, such as x-chat. It will also give the ability to use notify-osd for pidgin and for volume osd events. Just to show you on the right is an example of what we are going to achieve. This involves four steps.
Step 1: Be sure that your current pidgin-libnotify plugin is removed
- $
su -c "yum erase pidgin-libnotify"
Step 2: Install Notify-OSD
- Download one of the following (depending on your architecture)
- Install the rpm with the following command
- $
su -c "rpm -Uvh [INSERT DOWNLOADED FILENAME HERE]"
- $
- $
cp /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.bak - Make the new Notify-OSD default service
- $
su -c "gedit /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service" - Change the third line to Exec=/usr/libexec/notify-osd
- $
- Restart X or just reboot.