Have your say in the Young Fabian Survey 2010

Bright ideas? Burning issues? Got a suggestion? Or just want to take the first opportunity to sign up for this year’s policy development groups?
 
The executive committee wants to hear about the direction Young Fabians want the organisation to take during the next year. Young Fabian members are invited to have their say today in the YF Annual Survey 2010:
 
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/youngfabiansurvey2010
 
All responses received by the closing date of Monday 15 February will be entered into a prize draw to win a £25 book token.
 
The survey is quick and easy to complete, and is your chance to tell the YF executive committee what issues and activities are most important to you. This year, as Vice Chair, I am responsible for our policy development groups. These will be launching soon and you can sign up to join them by completing the survey.
 
The survey will be used by the executive committee to guide our planning over the course of the next year. Individually and collectively, our members are the heart of our organisation and it would be fantastic if you could feed in your views. If you have any problems, comments or questions about the survey then please email me: aprandle@youngfabians.org.uk.
 
Here’s the link again – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/youngfabiansurvey2010.
 
I look forward to seeing your responses.
 
 
Adrian Prandle
Vice Chair, Young Fabians

How much do we need to know?

Dominating most of the papers today is John Terry and stories of his relationship with another football player’s former girlfriend; his initial gagging order overturned by a judge who believed Terry more concerned with the loss of lucrative sponsorship deals than the invasion of his privacy.

Surely this is strange though, do we really need to justify our right to a private life? Surely the right to privacy is absolute and regardless of our motivations for wanting to maintain that privacy, it should be protected?

It is also being championed as a triumph for the freedom of speech, but is it not a slightly sad reflection on society that we revel in the fact that we get to read about a man cheating on his wife. Is this really the epitome of freedom of speech? Was this really information that we not just needed, but had a right to know?