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 […]

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Continue reading about White guy threatens to bomb airport, gets slap on wrist, much whingeing ensues

Indigo Jo on April 22nd, 2010

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 […]

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Continue reading about To extradite a bed-ridden woman

Indigo Jo on January 5th, 2010

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 […]

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Continue reading about Terrorism and privacy

Indigo Jo on November 4th, 2009

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 […]

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Continue reading about Henry Porter: from war to police state

Indigo Jo on September 8th, 2009

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 […]

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Continue reading about Control orders: try them or release them

Indigo Jo on August 11th, 2009

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 […]

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Continue reading about I’m a photographer, not a terrorist (or a ‘nonce’)

Indigo Jo on July 14th, 2009

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 […]

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Continue reading about Gary McKinnon and the Daily Mail crusade

Indigo Jo on April 17th, 2009
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Continue reading about Rising anger at police thuggery

Indigo Jo on March 14th, 2009
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Continue reading about Provincial Tory attacks free speech

Indigo Jo on February 28th, 2009
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Continue reading about Democracy does not guarantee rights

Indigo Jo on January 1st, 2009
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Continue reading about Let US clear up Guantanamo mess

Indigo Jo on December 15th, 2008
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Continue reading about Why “Rights & Responsibilities” is bunk

Indigo Jo on August 17th, 2008
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Continue reading about Who are the real traitors?

Indigo Jo on July 10th, 2008
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Continue reading about Rape campaigners oppose anonymous testimony

Indigo Jo on July 3rd, 2008
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Continue reading about Jill Saward: wrong then, wrong now

Indigo Jo on June 16th, 2008
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Continue reading about Shaykh Pirzada condemns 42-day detention

Indigo Jo on June 14th, 2008
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Continue reading about A nation of traffic wardens

Indigo Jo on June 10th, 2008
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Continue reading about Britain’s top Muslim? Hardly

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Continue reading about Round-up: drinks on the Tube, Blair uniting religions, Mary Whitehouse, high fuel costs

Indigo Jo on February 13th, 2008
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Continue reading about The Mosquito: why it really sucks