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Thursday 11 February 2010, liberty central blog, Guardian
For a newspaper that is consistently against torture, Con Coughlin's vitriolic article about Binyam Mohamed is shocking
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9 February 2010, The Guardian
Although violent crime is down, the police are increasingly using guns to make bungled, inaccurate and potentially deadly raids
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February 7 2010, Anna Mundow interviews Henry Porter, Boston Globe
Henry Porter, political columnist for The Observer and UK editor of
Vanity Fair, is the author of five novels including “Brandenburg Gate,”
which was set during the fall of the Berlin Wall. Porter’s new novel,
“The Bell Ringers” is a dark counterpoint to that previously optimistic
vision. This superb political thriller depicts England in the near
future as a place where fabricated security threats, state
surveillance, and antiterrorist legislation advance political ambitions
and control. Porter spoke from his home in London.
Read more at The Boston Globe...
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Friday 5 February 2010, liberty central blog, Guardian
Despite Francesca Klug's claims, lawyers armed with the Human Rights Act are not enough to defend our freedoms
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February 1, 2010, By Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post
English journalist Henry Porter's "The Bell Ringers" (published in England last year as "The Dying Light") is one of many novels that have attempted to update "Nineteen Eighty-Four" -- and one of the more impressive. But while Orwell offered a worst-case scenario of what could happen 35 years in the future, Porter is writing about what, as he sees it, is already starting to happen... This
is a sophisticated, engrossing and important political thriller. Porter
wants us to see that the same technological tools that can be used to
fight terrorism or to make government more efficient can also, in the
wrong hands, be used to destroy freedom.
Read more at The Washington Post...
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Monday 1 February 2010, liberty central blog, guardian.co.uk
Encouraged by terror laws, the authorities are increasingly using surveillance techniques in trivial circumstances
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Wednesday 27 January 2010, liberty central blog, Guardian
From Tony Blair to Lord Goldsmith, the rush to war was led by politician-lawyers, and the most culpable should be disbarred
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Tuesday 26 January 2010, liberty central blog, Guardian
Saturday's debate in Cornwall proved two things: senior police are intelligent people, and the public embraces open debate
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Monday 25 January 2010, liberty central blog, Guardian
After a flight was delayed, passengers reported shockingly aggressive policing. Are the public just scum to officers?
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Sunday 24 January 2010, The Observer
What we need now is a great repeal bill that restores all that Labour has taken from us
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Wednesday 20 January 2010, liberty central blog, Guardian
The decision not to prosecute a doctor for accessing the health records of well-known patients raises wider privacy issues
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Saturday 23rd January 2010, 10am - 4.30pm, Truro College, Cornwall
A day to discuss our freedom, privacy & rights. Chaired by Kate Adie (broadcaster and author) with speakers Henry Porter, Frederick Taylor (best selling historian of WW2), Katherine Whitehorn (columnist and broadcaster), Oliver Baines (environmental campaigner), Stephen Otter (Chief Constable for Devon and Cornwall) and Ursula Owen (campaigner for free speech).
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