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Tuesday 1 December 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
In its many intrusive policies, the government displays a fundamental mistrust of parents and children
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Monday 30 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
There is a new alliance between the left and right in America, inspired by the threat to liberty – can the same happen here?
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Friday 27 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
No one denies that Gary McKinnon did wrong and that he should face criminal proceedings – but in Britain not the United States
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Wednesday 25 November 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk
The DNA database does not balance liberty with the needs of the state, the state's unreasonable demand has eroded liberty
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Tuesday December 8, 6.30pm - 8pm, Hansard Society, Portcullis House
This Democracy Forum will look at whether what can be viewed as our traditional British ‘apathy’ is allowing the state to pass legislation that scrutinises and controls us. Or, is such a dystopian view a wildly exaggerated response to what is merely the use of modern tools to tackle 21st century crime and terrorism? The speakers are: Henry Porter, Peter Oborne and Sir Ian Blair. Chaired by Fiona Booth, Chief Executive, Hansard Society.
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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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