Paul Wesson
While I totally respect your motives (and your legal erudition!), can you explain to us why, when you were choosing a charity to join, you chose the Masons rather than the "transparent" ones. It is rather like asking BCCI investors, who are now sueing the Bank of England for failing in its role as banking regulator, why they passed up Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC and NatWEst to seek out a bank based in the near Near East, which was widely rumoured to have dodgy connections?
You have reminded us that freedom of association is enshrined in the Human Rights Act. What about transparency of government? Surely it is not unreasonable to expect public servants to be open about their connections and loyalties?
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