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Tuesday 30 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
The announcement today that a compulsory ID card trial for airside workers has been dropped makes clear that the new home secretary, Alan Johnson, a good union man, is not going to take on the British Airline Pilots' Association and other unions in the runup to the next election.
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Monday 29 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
Give local authorities a power and they abuse it. We have seen it with RIPA terror laws and the creation of largely useless CCTV systems: now the right to drink in public is being systematically attacked across the country by local authorities using powers to stop people having a good time in a park or a picnic with their friends.
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Friday 26 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
News of the extraordinary state that Britain has got itself into has taken a long time to percolate to the outside world, but when people abroad begin to understand the extent to which the British have been robbed of their freedoms by the Labour government, they are astonished by the lack of reaction in parliament and from the people.
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Thursday 18 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
A month ago I drew attention to the way in which the guillotine was being used by the government to cut short debate, when the pressures on parliament's timetable were in fact very few because of the huge holidays MPs were taking.
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Wednesday 17 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
The two leading candidates in the race to be Speaker – John Bercow and Margaret Beckett – are simply not up to the job.
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Tuesday 16 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
The video released of police officers punching and Tasering a man lying on the ground speaks for itself. Once you give a weapon like this to the British police it will be used and abused as a weapon of punishment and torture.
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Thursday 11 June 2009, guardian.co.uk
A Stoke City fan has been awarded £2,750 after Greater Manchester Police prevented him from attending a match
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Wednesday 10 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
A customer relations officer from Ellesmere Port has been electronically tagged for two months, given a curfew and ordered to pay £2,440.66 in costs for leaving a 15-week-old kitten alone for two days.
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Monday 8 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
Sixty years ago today George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, and this evening, as though to mark the anniversary of Orwell's last book, the former head of GCHQ, Sir David Pepper, slips from the shadows to tell the BBC's Who's Watching You programme that it has become necessary for the government to record all data from phone and internet traffic in the fight against terror.
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Friday 5 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
To place his chief rival for the premiership in the Home Office, that graveyard of political careers, which has seen the unhappy departure from government of four out of five Labour home secretaries must have given Gordon Brown a rare moment of saturnine pleasure during the reshuffle.
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Thursday 4 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
We have a long way to go, but the first signs of an improvement in the civil liberties situation are showing
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1 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
Despite a looming election defeat, this government is pushing through a
raft of legislative proposals that have no moral authority
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