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Tuesday 24 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
2,000 asylum seekers' kids a year are locked up, and the only beneficiaries seem to be firms running centres like Yarl's Wood
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Wednesday 18 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
Full marks to the students who complained to their headteacher about the intrusive taking of fingerprints in their school
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Tuesday 17 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
Student activism has often fired resistance to repression – and it must urgently do so now
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Friday 13 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
It is difficult not to agree with the Liberal Democrats when they accuse the Conservatives of double standards on state powers
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Thursday 12 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
Last night the inventor of DNA profiling, Sir Alec Jeffreys, condemned the government's plans, announced yesterday, to keep the DNA of innocent people on the national DNA database for six years in defiance of a ruling by the European court of human rights.
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Tuesday 10 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
The government has delayed legislation that would allow it to track our phone and internet use – but that won't be the end of it
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Monday 9 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
Government attempts to override a free speech clause in a homophobic hatred bill illustrate its determination to attack rights
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Sunday 8 November 2009, The Observer
Twenty years after I watched the Berlin Wall fall, I worry that the hope it inspired is being slowly crushed
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Thursday 5 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
It is difficult to think of two more sinister New Labour figures than Phil Woolas, minister for immigration, and Lady Delyth Morgan, parliamentary under-secretary for children. They are joined in unholy alliance in the foreword to the new government guidelines on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children under section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009.
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Wednesday 4 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
Let's see if we can tease out the logic of the latest New Labour backflip. The former foreign office minister Kim Howells suggests that the policy in Afghanistan is not working and it is time to consider withdrawing troops and putting the money saved as result into the UK Border Agency and greater surveillance and monitoring in Britain.
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Wednesday 4 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
Let's see if we can tease out the logic of the latest New Labour backflip. The former foreign office minister Kim Howells suggests that the policy in Afghanistan is not working and it is time to consider withdrawing troops and putting the money saved as result into the UK Border Agency and greater surveillance and monitoring in Britain.
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Thursday 29 October 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
"In the areas of security and liberty many would argue (and I agree) that there has been too much legislation," wrote Charles Clarke last week. Some may experience a sense of vindication reading this but I believe the proper reaction is nearer scorn, for the article contains neither concession nor apology, but is merely an attempt to reposition Labour before the next election.
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