Stand up for smokers' rights
Monday, October 3, 2011 at 12:28
Simon Clark

Looking forward to seeing some of you at The Comedy Store in Manchester tomorrow.

Stand Up For Liberty! follows our hugely successful event at the Labour conference in Liverpool last week. (That's something I didn't expect to write!) Ed Miliband's Parliamentary Private Secretary even described it as "The best event of the conference".

Anyway, tomorrow's fringe event at the Conservative conference is another first – a drinks reception followed by 60 minutes' of stand-up comedy.

This afternoon we are also hosting a panel discussion (Civil Liberties Up in Smoke: what are smokers' rights in a free society?) in the Barbirolli Room at the Bridgewater Hall.

This is a re-run of the Voices of Freedom debate in London in June that coincided with the publication of the Privacy International report Civil Liberties: Up In Smoke.

Chairman is Mark Littlewood of the Institute of Economic Affairs and panellists are Peter Hitchens (Mail on Sunday), Dan Hamilton (Big Brother Watch), Chris Snowdon (Velvet Glove Iron Fist) and me.

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