A British police unit is demonising peaceful protesters to stay in business.
Category: law & order
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
A Thousand Dusty Codicils
Little by little, democracy is being banned
Wrong T-shirt son? You’re nicked
The act which came into force this week could make terrorists of us all
Power Hides from the People
New market “freedoms” need the help of old-fashioned authoritarianism
Illegal Beagles
In the name of preventing violence, the government is being asked to ban peaceful protest
More Human Than We Are
Corporations are asserting their “human rights” to exploit the rest of us.