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Labour parliamentary selection hopeful supports charging Dale Farm evictees
We’ll forgive you if you haven’t heard of Elliott Adair. Parliamentary selections are plentiful at the moment, and one can’t possibly keep up with every single hopeful. Adair, however, is seeking the...
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The government are keener to catch whistleblowers than tax avoiders
The treatment of Osita Mba, the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) solicitor, is a public scandal. It was he who revealed that Dave Hartnett, former head of HMRC, had made a private deal with Goldman...
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Guardian Sustainable Business Awards honouring blacklist company
Readers who have been following the saga of the saga of the GMB’s industrial campaign against Carillion at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital will know that the company failed to act for years while...
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Britain’s human rights record: things can only get worse
The revelation that the US National Security Agency and FBI were enabled in a major international snooping operation to access the systems of 9 of the world’s biggest internet companies and then to...
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Whistleblowers v Big State and Big Tech: we still need Davids to bring down...
There are several huge lessons that flow from this latest explosive story about the comprehensive range of the modern surveillance State. First, if we are ever going to know what is really going on...
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They snoop on anyone anywhere: there’s nothing & nobody they won’t target
The latest revelations from Edward Snowden are really chilling. Not only do GCHQ/MI5 have a private portal into the US National Security Agency’s data mining against UK and other European citizens...
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Legal aid reform will hit most vulnerable
The legal system of the United Kingdom has for years, been the envy of the world. The equality of law has been a benchmark for countries to aim towards that has entitled every man and woman in our...
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Who will spy on the spies, regulate the regulators and police the police?
The last few weeks have thrown up example after example how those with power have run rings round those who are supposed to call them to account. Yesterday we learnt that the police, shortly after the...
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Time for a public inquiry on the standards and ethics of policing
The secretive parts of the British state are slowly being exposed to the light, and it’s a pretty ugly vista. Today we learn that over 8,900 political activists are being monitored by a secret police...
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Snowden fugitive saga distracts attention from real unanswered issues
Of course the issue in mass surveillance is the balance between intrusiveness and the destruction of privacy on the one hand and the overriding need to protect a country from real and serious threats...
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Uncle Sam, what big ears you have!
Translated from the original by François Delapierre We do not know what is more astonishing. The revelations about the spying on the European Union by the United States intelligence services? Or the...
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If only we had a government we could trust, we should offer Edward Snowden...
Instead of pursuing Edward Snowden to the ends of the earth, as the US is doing, we should be lauding him for the huge service he has done us at enormous risk to himself. He has revealed the nature...
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Intelligence Services Committee clears GCHQ: so that’s all right then!
The usual Establishment farce is being played out once again. Faced with Edward Snowden’s evidence that the UK government’s spy centre GCHQ used the US National Security Agency’s Prism programme to...
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Pressure mounts on Cable to organise Levenson-style inquiry into blacklisting
Business Secretary Vince Cable faced mounting pressure from unions and politicians to investigate whether blacklisting is an ongoing practice in workplaces across Britain this week. The Scottish...
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Atos campaigners win huge victory
Ever since the days of Jo Moore who infamously emailed on the day of 9/11 that “today is a good day to bury bad news”, governments thereafter have tended to follow her advice. Hence on the day when...
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I am Bradley Manning
I am Bradley Manning. Because I believe the public deserves the truth and whistleblowers deserve a fair trial. 1161 days of unjust confinement is enough! Drop the “aiding the enemy” charge Amidst...
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Judge says law on bedroom tax discriminates against disabled people legally
A legal challenge over claims that the bedroom tax unlawfully discriminates against disabled people in social housing was today dismissed by the High Court. But lawyers acting for the claimants said...
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Regulation of the security services needs to be completely overhauled
The cascade of revelations from the Edward Snowden files gets ever more damning. After exposure of the US National Security Agency’s Prism system and the matching UK GCHQ’s Tempora system, allowing...
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Reclaiming Our Futures: protest against austerity, for the rights of disabled...
Our history is full of examples of how disabled people have come together when under attack to fight — and win. Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), Black Triangle, Mental Health Resistance Network and...
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The human rights act is not enough – we need a codified constitution
For centuries the liberty of the British people was grounded upon the concept of negative liberty. People held the freedom to do as they wish up until they were limited by statute. The 1998 Human...
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