Category: law & order

Wrong T-shirt son? You’re nicked

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.

When the law is wrong it must be challenged. That’s progress

Britain’s libel laws allow the rich and powerful to silence the excluded

Britain has started the biggest civil rights clampdown in recent history

The powerful enjoy immunity, while the law treats the powerless ever more harshly

Government agencies are making us pay throught the nose for our right to know

Big companies are using the courts to stifle their critics

As the security services seek to justify their existence, harmless activists are being treated as terrorists

Old plant varieties have been criminalised by a series of draconian laws intended to protect big corporations

I track down the police torturer who had me beaten up in 1989

The police seem to want as much trouble as they can get.

Britain’s libel laws allow the rich and powerful to silence the excluded

The Government’s repressive new laws contain eerie similarities to statutes passed hundreds of years ago