Category: law & order

The Paranoia Squad

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.

Big business is seeking the freedom to kill its workers

Little by little, democracy is being banned

The act which came into force this week could make terrorists of us all

New market “freedoms” need the help of old-fashioned authoritarianism

In the name of preventing violence, the government is being asked to ban peaceful protest

Corporations are asserting their “human rights” to exploit the rest of us.