What Jack Straw forgot to mention

Wednesday, December 12 2007, Guardian CiF, Liberty and the state

Does the justice minister need to be reminded what Labour has done to the British constitution? 

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In a democracy accountability is everything. So, let's see some

Sunday, 9 December, 2007, The Observer

As police and government press for yet more authoritarian measures over us all, a chief constable and a cabinet minister get off lightly

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A mass movement is needed to tackle the state's snoopers

Sunday, 25 November 2007, The Observer

Ministers will quickly lose their shame over the missing 25 million files and continue to stockpile our most personal secrets

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We're trapped in a prison and the walls are rising higher

Sunday, 18 November 2007, The Observer

We can't just depend on a few journalists and MPs to fight the government's anti-libertarianism. We all have a duty to speak up

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There's no justice in locking up suspects for 56 days

Sunday, 11 November 2007, The Observer

Gordon Brown's proposal is iniquitous. For the country's reputation, the awkward squad in Parliament must stand against it 

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So, Mr Cameron, what would you do with our liberties?

Sunday, 4 November 2007, The Observer

Last year, Henry Porter engaged in an extraordinary email exchange with Tony Blair over fears that the former Prime Minister was eroding our basic freedoms. Today, he locks horns with Conservative leader David Cameron 

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Small sops to freedom can't hide what Labour has stolen

Sunday, 28 October 2007, The Observer

Even as Gordon Brown invokes Locke, Churchill and Orwell, his every act proves that, at heart, he is deeply anti-libertarian

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His views are hateful. But so is the attempt to deny him a voice

Sunday, 21 October 2007, The Observer

The repellent views of people such as geneticist James Watson should be countered by argument, not by more repressive laws

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Peter Tatchell interviews Henry Porter

Friday, 19 October 2007, Talking with Tatchell, 18 Doughty Street.com

Civil liberties are being eroded on a scale unprecedented in peacetime. In this 30 minute interview Henry Porter and Peter Tatchell discuss how Britain's New Labour government is undermining the rights of the individual and strengthening the power of the state.

Watch Talking with Tatchell : Labour's subversion of Liberty...

 

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Stella Rimington & Henry Porter

Saturday, 13th October 2007, Cheltenham Literary Festival

Henry Porter and Stella Rimington, novelist and former head of MI5, discuss the extraordinary world of espionage and the remarkable capacity of the spy novel to address some of society's deepest concerns

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The government trumpets free speech while trampling on it

Sunday, 7 October 2007, The Observer

The PM might mouth platitudes, but our phone records lie exposed, a whistleblower is prosecuted and a demonstration is banned

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The faith of the oppressed can topple the worst tyrants

Sunday, 30 September 2007, The Observer

The conviction of the monks could still oust Burma's generals, just as a congregation was the catalyst for the end of East Germany

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