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Duggan decision is bad for everyone: new system needed to deal with police...
This is a sad, bad day for British justice. It seems impossible to combine the view of 8 out of the 10 members of the jury in the Duggan inquest, on the one hand, that he did not have a gun in his hand...
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Payday loans, TV and Class
When was the last time that you saw someone take out a payday loan on a television programme? When did you last see a show in which someone in full time work was struggling to pay the bills? I feel...
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Disability protesters target Atos benefit test centres
Disability campaigners laid siege to Atos assessment centres up and down the country today, in a bid to increase public pressure on the government to end what many see as a war against disabled people....
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Bugging and surveillance – a cause for concern
Bugging devices in all shapes and forms, tracking devices to monitor movement, and remote controlled surveillance cameras were all an integral part of the British government’s war in the north. Over...
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Safeguarding patients’ data
Last week the Government announced the delay to controversial plans to share patient data from GP records. The delay follows criticism that the public have not been properly informed about how their...
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Couldn’t make it up: Tribunal dealing with complaints against MI5/GCHQ is...
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, passed in 2000, one of the most insidious Acts of Parliament in modern times, set up a tribunal with the power to investigate any complaints against MI5,...
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Employment tribunal claims slump as fees bite hard
The introduction of employment tribunal fees is biting hard according to the government statistics. The statistics cover October to December 2013 and show that workers seeking justice through the...
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Relax – Cameron says spy agencies acting entirely within the law
It was the Blairite press officer Jo Moore who in 20o1 on the day of 9/11 coined the infamous phrase: “This is a good day to bury bad news”. Cameron seems to have learnt the lesson when yesterday he...
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The right to roam
Tomorrow will mark the 82nd anniversary of the Kinder Scout trespass. Over eighty years ago working class people defied the police and landowners with a mass trespass in the Peak District in order to...
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Without renewables, you get fracking and human rights abuses
Britain as an island off the mainland of Europe potentially has greater capacity for production of renewable energy than almost the whole of the rest of Europe put together, mainly from onshore and...
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Greens start legal challenge over GCHQ snooping in violation of “Wilson...
Two Green Party parliamentarians are taking legal action against the Government over claims that their communications continue to be intercepted by GCHQ. Caroline Lucas MP and Baroness Jenny Jones have...
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Fantasy and reality in Guatemala
On 13 May, the Guatemalan Congress held a vote that can only be described as surreal. They voted to deny that genocide took place during the country’s civil war from 1960-1996, which left 250,00...
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Farage wants workers’ votes but offers no workers’ rights
Compared with its 2010 General Election Manifesto, UKIP’s manifestos for the recent Euro and local elections were remarkably light on detail but long on saloon bar, right wing sentiment – open...
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The authoritarian state keeps trampling on liberty
A judge has ordered that the criminal trial of two persons accused of terrorism (or rather of ‘preparing for terrorism’) should be held in secret, and that even the existence of this trial should be...
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Mother and baby home scandal: rooted in creation of 2 conservative states in...
From the USA to China, from Africa and India to Australia the story of how almost 800 babies and children died in the care of a religious order and the state were buried in a mass grave in Tuam County...
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Boris Johnson’s decision to buy water cannons is misguided and bizarre
What is Boris Johnson frightened of – apart from losing the Tory party leadership (for which he is a racing certainty loser already)? He says he needs to be ready for trouble on the streets in the...
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30 years of foot-dragging over Orgreave must end
It is bizarre that the so-called Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has now spent 18 months dancing round the maypole trying to decide whether to launch a full inquiry into police...
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Dealing with the Murdoch empire requires far more than jailing Coulson
Coulson is only a medium-sized cog in the web of industrial scale phone-hacking, lying, deceit, and intimidation that is Murdoch’s News International. If this was any other company rather than one of...
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Len McCluskey warns now is not the time for heated arguments about Labour policy
Opening Unite’s policy conference in Liverpool today, Len McCluskey’s planned speech ranged across issues from the severity of Tory attacks on working people and their families (as well as on Unite...
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Why media conglomerates should be broken up
The hacking trials aren’t even half the issue. The hard, unavoidable fact remains that the power of the Murdoch press – the real unspoken stain behind the Brooks-Coulson trials – is undiminished and...
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