Prime Minister David Cameron, belonging to Conservatives mentioned in the House of Commons "We should be wary of any legislation that has the potential to infringe free speech and the free press". Last year, when the London was burning with rioters looting the streets that same man famously quoted that "free flow of information" can sometimes be a problem and gone one step further in proposing social media ban the rioters. Labour and Liberal Democrats two other major parties in England welcomed legislation for regulating the Media. We know that Conservatives are leaned towards stricter laws and regulations which were replicated in the immigration laws when they came to power whereas the other two liberal parties are favoring stronger laws for regulation. Is this not interesting? How double standards in policy makings?
India too have faced such hypocritical stands of late, the most striking of that was the stand of BJP, a right wing political party opposing FDI in retail. Ruling Congress which claims to stand with the Aam Admi took an executive decision on the same, without consulting coalition partners or doing thorough analysis on the apprehensions raised by various sections.
Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life is the autobiography of eminent historian Eric Hobsbawn, this century no less interesting as well.
