A damning judgement on army killings suggests that officials at every level have covered up torture and murder.
Category: law & order
The Busybody State
Why was the Big Green Gathering shut down by the authorities?
The Barbarians at the Gate
Why has policing in Britain gone so mad?
Printing Police Lies
The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume.
The Proceeds of Crime
The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives.
The Paranoia Squad
A British police unit is demonising peaceful protesters to stay in business.
The Price of Free Speech
A grotesque case of legal bullying using a 13th-Century law shows that in some respects we still haven’t shaken off feudalism.
Censored by Money
England’s mediaeval libel laws are becoming a global menace to free speech
Mind-Forged Manacles
Crime is down, convictions are down, but the prisons are bursting. Why?
Lost in the System
What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners?
Justice Undone
I didn’t get my man, but I helped to remind people what he’s done.
This Is Now a Protest for Democracy
To win an injunction against protests at Heathrow airport, BAA used a law which threatens our democratic rights
A Plague of Lawyers
Their over-representation in politics is partly responsible for a long sequence of oppressive laws.
The Darkest Corner of the Mind
US interrogators have devised a new form of torture. It debases the democracy they claim to be defending.
Defend Our Ranting Homophobes
People should be as offensive as they wish. But in Britain the police can decide whose views to ban.
Feeding Crime
If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food
Children of the Machine
New technological advances could make us susceptible to perpetual surveillance
Protesters are Criminals
And hardly anyone is contesting the new clampdown
Protest as Harassment
The new crime bill permits the police to stop almost any demonstration.
The Myth of Compensation Culture
Big business is seeking the freedom to kill its workers