The brutal truth of child detention

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

Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk

 

 

 
Blindly fingerprinting children

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

Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk

 

 

 
From Prague to Berlin, liberty will always owe youth

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

Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk

 

 

 
Tories send mixed messages on secret inquests

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

Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk

 

 

 
UK carries on defying Europe on DNA

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.

Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk

 

 

 
Home Office aspires to read your emails

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

Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk

 

 

 
Chipping away at free speech

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

Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk

 

 

 
I love Europe, but I despair of the EU

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

 

Read more...
 
Disguising the detention of children

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.

Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk

 

 

 
Out of Afghanistan, into a police state

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.

Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk

 

 

 
Out of Afghanistan, into a police state

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.

Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk

 

 

 
Charles Clarke just doesn't get it

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.

Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk

 

 

 
prev1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10next