A C Grayling asks: Will every individual have to be a tight-lipped, right-thinking, timid, dutiful, obedient, queue-forming clone to escape the censure of the unblinking eye now being opened by the state upon us? I will not reproduce his remarks and arguments further, nor his despair. I will only ask […]
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Non-police civilians given power to issue on-the-spot fines
According to the Telegraph: Despite lacking formal police training, hundreds of civilians have been made part of the “extended police family” by the Home Office under little-known legislation. They have not been asked to wear any special uniforms to identify themselves, but must wear only a badge that can be […]
Read MoreJack Straw: “Labour’s decade is liberty’s best since the vote was won”
See this Guardian article: First, the Human Rights Act. We really did “bring rights home”, as we said we would. At last British people have been able directly to access and to enforce positive rights in the British courts, rather than having to go to Strasbourg and wait for years […]
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