Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Sunday, 19 October 2008

Dropping the 42 Days Detention Without Charge

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I was pleased to read that finally the UK government has shelved its plans for people to be able to be held without being charged, the so-ca...
Monday, 13 October 2008

How Torture Became Culturally Acceptable in the UK

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You may have heard about the recent advertisement that the BBC pulled after numerous complaints. In the UK you have to buy a TV licence ever...
Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Is the Enlightenment Over?

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The Age of Enlightenment is seen as roughly the period from about 1688 to 1778/1789/1815 in which there was a shift away from superstition a...
Thursday, 12 June 2008

'Pre-Charge Detention': Wrapping Up the Destruction of Liberties in Weasly Words

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Any hope I had for Gordon Brown, any belief that his imminent removal was being over-exaggerated and a hope he would continue has been erode...
Sunday, 4 May 2008

The Crooked Road to UK Dictatorship

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As you will know if you read this blog with any regularity, my key fear for the UK at the moment is that it is steadily becoming an authorit...
Saturday, 3 May 2008

Why they are Trying to Drive Brown Out

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As readers of this blog will know, I am not a big fan of Gordon Brown, I think he is more honest and far less egotistical than Tony Blair wa...
Friday, 15 February 2008

Britain as a 'Soft Touch' for Terrorism

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I should keep a log of how many months pass between the UK newspapers being filled with stories about how the country is open house for terr...