Last week a guy called Paul Chambers was fined a total of £1,000 (all but £385 of which was either costs or a “victim surcharge”) for posting a tweet threatening to blow up an airport. The guy was delayed at Robin Hood Airport near Doncaster and posted the message which read, “You’ve got a week […]
Earlier today I read that a woman from mid-Wales who is bed-ridden with fibromyalgia and also suffers from Crohn’s disease, epilepsy and depression has been refused an appeal in the High Court against extradition to the USA on charges of having abducted her six-year-old daughter twelve years ago. The abduction followed the withdrawal of her […]
So, once again a terrorist associated with al-Qa’ida has nearly taken out an aeroplane, and governments are scrabbling around trying to find ways to prevent that exact type of attack from ever happening again. This time, we are being threatened with full-body scanners, and Gordon Brown — against official advice — has decided to install […]
Out of Afghanistan, into a police state | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Kim Howells had an article published in the Guardian today, in which he recommends that British forces are pulled out of Afghanistan and that the money saved by that should be ploughed into the police, border controls and security […]
Continue reading about Henry Porter: from war to police state
Bring these men to trial — or revoke their control orders, from today’s Guardian Afua Hirsch (the Guardian’s legal correspondent) on the recent change of mind regarding a British-Libyan man who had been under a banning order based on evidence he was not allowed to see as it would have compromised an informant. The Law […]
Continue reading about Control orders: try them or release them
BBC Viewfinder: I’m a photographer… This is all about the problems some photographers have been having taking pictures in ‘sensitive’ locations, particularly in London; these places have also included shopping centres, many of them privately owned even though they appear public. The magazine Amateur Photographer have printed many letters from photographers complaining about having been […]
Continue reading about I’m a photographer, not a terrorist (or a ‘nonce’)
The Daily Mail has recently been running a campaign over several issues to stop the British computer hacker, Gary McKinnon, from being extradited to the USA to face charges over cracking American military and NASA computers. It has printed heartstring-tugging stories about how an American jail would make mincemeat of him and railed against a […]
Continue reading about Gary McKinnon and the Daily Mail crusade
Recent Comments
africana, Maryam, irumat, africana, africana, Indigo Jo [...]
africana, africana
Jasmine, Irony of Life
Irony of Life, Irony of Life, M Risbrook, Irony of Life, africana, africana [...]
Nils, ali khan, africana, africana, George Carty, africana
M Risbrook
Greengrass3, Irony of Life, Greengrass3, jock, Ali, CampbellH [...]