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Tuesday 11th August 2009, Mail Online
Returning to Britain from a summer holiday abroad, you begin to notice things that perhaps escaped your attention before - the huge number of CCTV cameras that infest our public spaces and, much less obviously, the atmosphere of watchfulness and control that has now become a way of life. This is the regime that 12 years of New Labour have imposed on Britain, a place of unwavering suspicion, paranoia - and obsessive surveillance.
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Monday 10 August 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
The government must be quietly grateful to the distractions of August. Only Computer Weekly noticed that nine local authority workers have been sacked for accessing the personal records of celebrities, and their acquaintances held on the core database of the government's ID scheme.
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Friday 7 August 2009, The Independent
Spy fiction used to explore the murky no man's land between rival superpowers, but now the threat to freedom lurks far closer to home.
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Thursday August 6 2009, Cullen Murphy, Vanity Fair
V.F. London editor Henry Porter’s new thriller, The Dying Light,
shifts locales dramatically from the streets of Cartagena to the Welsh
Marches, to the House of Lords. But its constant focus is the rapidly
growing ability of governments and corporations to monitor our personal
lives.
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Wednesday 5 August 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
The stupidity, waste of time and contempt involved in the new points based visa system for artists and academics wanting to visit the UK has been laid bare by a report from the home affairs select committee.
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Monday 3 August 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
The communications industry has condemned government plans to force them to monitor your calls, emails and internet usage
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Sunday 2 August 2009, The Observer
This week, one of Parliament's most active bodies, the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), made up of both peers and MPs, reports on the allegations of government involvement in and knowledge of the torture of terrorist suspects by foreign powers. If you're like me, you find it hard to read anything about torture, but this report is very important because it makes plain these barbaric practices have been commissioned in our name.
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Friday 31 July 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
The government's extradition of a UFO-obsessed hacker demonstrates the inequality of our relationship with the US
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Wednesday 29 July 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
Here are some recent examples of the stupid, suspicious society we are creating. What they reveal is a state of mind that reveres regulations and authority over common sense. This is not something that has been imposed on Britain. Rather we have succumbed to a climate of fear and unreason in the belief that we will somehow be safer. Read these links and mourn the loss of something essential to the national character.
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Tuesday 28 July 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
In a excellent pamphlet produced by the Centre for Policy Studies, advocating a new Great Reform Act, the author of Yes Minister, Sir Antony Jay, writes that we are "governed by an increasingly self-serving almost unaccountable political class who are even further out of touch with the interests and wishes of the British people than were the rural aristocracy 200 years ago." These words came to mind when I read that a YouGov poll had found that 79% of the public are opposed to the ID card scheme on the grounds that they want the estimated £5bn cost of the scheme spent on something else.
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Monday 27 July 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
Giving bouncers and hospital staff the right to access police records and issue fines opens up the potential for injustice
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Thursday 23 July 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
To live on the left is to live optimistically, writes my colleague Polly Toynbee. This may be true of Polly, whose smart idealism no one can deny, but I am afraid you couldn't say the same of New Labour, which has exhibited a profoundly pessimistic view of society since it came into power 12 years ago.
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