Posts Tagged ‘liberty’
The Digital Economy Bill
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010Nick Hogan, the Smoking Ban Martyr, is released
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Mixed responses to Cardiff’s new State of the Art CCTV system
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Pope attacks UK equality Laws. Right or Wrong?
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
State surveillance in the UK set to go out of control
Monday, January 25th, 2010The death of the Political Promise
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Once upon a time politicians used to go round making ‘political promises’ of what they were going to do with our hard earned money that they had snaffled before we got to see it through some scam called Pay As You Earn (PAYE).
If you had to write a cheque out at the end of every financial year made out to your local council and Whitehall, you would blink, look at that cheque with all the noughts on it …read more
Musical memoirs: Glastonbury ‘86
Monday, December 14th, 2009Let me take you back to the time of the mid eighties when the country was in the same sort of mess as it is now. …read more
The Swiss ban minarets on Mosques
Monday, November 30th, 2009
In a surprise result the Swiss have voted overwhelmingly to ban the erection of minarets on mosques. This vote was brought about when 115,000 residents signed a peoples’ initiative and handed it to parliament, 15,000 more than that required. Of the 150 mosques in Switzerland only 4 currently have minarets. Initially it was thought that at least 53% of the population would reject this proposal, especially as Switzerland relies heavily on Middle East finance. …read more
A database of violent men
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
There are plans to introduce a database to hold the details of violent men. This is a recommendation made by the Association of Chief Police Officers after a review ordered by Jacqui Smith when she was Home Secretary. Under the recommendations, the 25,000 or so serial domestic violence offenders will have to register with the police for inclusion on the database. In the same way the Sex Offenders Register works, non-registration would be an offence. Women would then be given the “right to know” if they were safe from potentially violent men. …read more
Big Bother update: The Intercept Modernisation Programme is reborn
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009The Intercept Modernisation Programme has reared its ugly head again. Earlier in the year the plan was apparently scrapped after it was proved that this huge database project flew in the face of EU legislation. All Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies will be required, by law, to store contact details of every phone call, text, E-Mail, and web-site we all visit. …read more
Liberty, anonymity, the state and you
Friday, February 12th, 2010…read more
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