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Liberty Central

  • Football fans stand up for their rights | Henry Porter
  • Rubbish politics | Bibi van der Zee
  • A little way on libel reform | Simon Singh
  • Another mess on Miliband's doorstep | Clive Stafford Smith
  • Do you have a question about your human rights? | Liberty Clinic
  • Can I refuse an electronic strip search at an airport without being detained?
  • The right bill of rights | Roger Smith
  • We don't execute killers, but demand a death-penalty-lite | Zoe Williams
  • Funding its headaches - the government will choose who can bring cases against it | Afua Hirsch
  • The complexity of race and juries | Annabelle Lever

Our Kingdom

  • Where Foot Failed ,
  • An English backlash or an English project,
  • Parliament, heal thyself ,
  • Are the Tories the new Levellers?,
  • Digital Economy Bill? Lord, no!,
  • Goodbye to 'Churchillism': from Munich and Suez to the Iraq war,
  • Epitaph for a politician,
  • Whatever you say Gordon, the war was illegal,
  • The missed opportunity of 'Broonland',
  • No television without representation,

NO2ID

  • BMA branch opposes fast rollout of summary e-records
  • Q&A: The ID card commissioner talks cards and controversy
  • Home Office: No U-turn on ID database plans
  • Brown goes crime-fighting
  • Detectives trawl DNA database 60 times a year – hunting for criminals’ relatives
  • ICO to investigate surveillance for Parliamentary report

Liberty

  • Bryantinquest abandoned
  • 01/03/10 Will Parliament allow War on Terror shame to continue?
  • 26/02/10 Torture cover-up must end with public inquiry
  • 22/02/10 Murder inquest secured by Human Rights Act opens today
  • 12/02/10 Court of Appeal finds against BA employee banned from wearing cross
  • 10/02/10 Foreign Secretary loses torture suppression case
  • 01/02/10 Unsafe and unfair - discredited control order regime up for renewal again
  • 27/01/10 Liberty support "shock jock" Jon Gaunt's free speech challenge to Ofcom
  • 27/01/10 Permission granted in Jon Gaunt’s free speech challenge to Ofcom
  • 19/01/2010 Overwhelming support as case of BA employee banned from wearing cross is heard in Court of Appeal

UK Civil Liberties @Twitter

  • @tomabba And it's an excuse for an insane police powers land grab: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/21/olympics2012-civil-liberties
  • Civil liberties for the poor: Yesterday evening I went to an event run by ResPublica (http://www.respublica.org.uk... http://bit.ly/c8hFzc
  • RT @PoliceStateUK: New article: Civil liberties for the poor - review of a talk by Damian Green MP http://policestate.co.uk/articles/57
  • New article: Civil liberties for the poor - review of a talk by Damian Green MP http://policestate.co.uk/articles/57
  • The excellent Henry Porter on civil liberties: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2010/mar/01/cameron-tory-labour-rights
  • Have a read of http://freedom.libdems.org.uk/ if you care about civil liberties!
  • Prof AC Grayling tells @colvinius civil liberties & free speech are threatened by UK anti-terror laws http://j.mp/c5nxOP /via @julie_posetti
  • RT @julie_posetti: Prof AC Grayling tells @colvinius civil liberties & free speech are threatened by the UK's anti-terror laws http://j.mp/c5nxOP #mustlisten
  • RT @julie_posetti: Prof AC Grayling tells @colvinius civil liberties & free speech are threatened by the UK's anti-terror laws http://j.mp/c5nxOP #mustlisten
  • Prof AC Grayling tells @colvinius civil liberties & free speech are threatened by the UK's anti-terror laws http://j.mp/c5nxOP #mustlisten
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