Category: law & order

The Hanging Judge

Why has Mr Justice Eady been allowed to conduct a one-man campaign against free speech?

A damning judgement on army killings suggests that officials at every level have covered up torture and murder.

Why was the Big Green Gathering shut down by the authorities?

Why has policing in Britain gone so mad?

The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume.

The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives.

A British police unit is demonising peaceful protesters to stay in business.

A grotesque case of legal bullying using a 13th-Century law shows that in some respects we still haven’t shaken off feudalism.

England’s mediaeval libel laws are becoming a global menace to free speech

Crime is down, convictions are down, but the prisons are bursting. Why?

What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners?

I didn’t get my man, but I helped to remind people what he’s done.

To win an injunction against protests at Heathrow airport, BAA used a law which threatens our democratic rights

Their over-representation in politics is partly responsible for a long sequence of oppressive laws.

US interrogators have devised a new form of torture. It debases the democracy they claim to be defending.

People should be as offensive as they wish. But in Britain the police can decide whose views to ban.

If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food

New technological advances could make us susceptible to perpetual surveillance

And hardly anyone is contesting the new clampdown

The new crime bill permits the police to stop almost any demonstration.