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Liberty Central

  • The intelligent response to the terrorist threat | Isabella Sankey
  • Britain's rough sleepers deserve a stay of execution this winter | Clive Stafford Smith
  • Yes, we broke the law as climate change activists. And this is why | Dan Glass
  • Tunisia is backtracking on women's rights | Kamel Labidi
  • Cherie Blair | Iran is attempting to decapitate its Bahá'í community
  • What is the Foreign Office's human rights report for? | Oliver Miles
  • Canada's illiberal turn on asylum | Heather McRobie
  • Do you have a question for the Liberty Clinic?
  • What privacy rights do people filmed for fly-on-the-wall TV shows have? | Emma Norton
  • Mental disability, state power and the capacity to decide | Wayne Martin

Our Kingdom

  • The forces gathering for a "Yes" vote on AV, Guy Aitchison
  • Young People and the "Big Society", Andy Mycock
  • Robert Harris on Tony Blair and the new film of The Ghost, OurKingdom
  • Big pimpin' at the Tory conference, Guy Aitchison
  • Change that works for them: The new Cabinet system, Paul Reynolds
  • “Transparency” must be extended to PFi contracts , Oliver Huitson
  • A radical idea for party funding reform: one-person-one-card , Guy Aitchison
  • The slow death of the "Westminster model", Guy Aitchison
  • Sleeping with the Enemy as the "No" campaign shapes up, Guy Aitchison
  • Counter-intuitive tactical voting could favour the Lib Dems under AV, David Rickard

NO2ID

  • Business as usual for ‘Big Brother state’?
  • More than 200 public sector staff caught snooping on citizen records
  • Home Office fails to axe ID cards in 100 days
  • After the navel gazing, Labour should focus on being an effective opposition
  • Government scraps plans for citizen data sharing system
  • Labour will have to grow up eventually

Liberty

  • 27/08/10 Liberty demands extradition justice
  • 19/08/10 Liberty responds to counter-terror review – end control orders, reduce pre-charge detention and make intercept evidence admissible in court
  • 02/08/10 Victory in school mum snooping case
  • 25/07/10 Liberty warns MP who refuses to see veiled constituents of unlawful discrimination
  • 13/07/10 Court in Jon Gaunt free speech case accepts 'Nazi' is legitimate political slang
  • 13/07/10 Protest walk goes ahead with Liberty's support
  • 13/07/10 Home Secretary invites Liberty to contribute to counter-terror review
  • 08/07/10 Liberty welcomes demise of section 44 stop and search after long fight through Courts
  • 06/07/10 Intelligence services commissioner to lead torture inquiry
  • 30/06/10 UK torture inquiry terms agreed

UK Civil Liberties @Twitter

  • RT @schroduck: This might interest @butsir: a petition from someone who thinks train announcements are read out by a woman IN SPACE: http://is.gd/eDKjF
  • RT @policestateuk - "what a "civil liberties fetish" would look like if it really did play out in the bedroom." http://bit.ly/9pPEAZ
  • RT @CopestoneTeam: London 2012 Olympics criticised for protecting sponsors at the expense of civil liberties: http://bit.ly/cpm4uF #advertising #sponsorship
  • CCTV for dog walkers who don't clean up their mess: Civil liberties groups and residents attacked the action by Su... http://bit.ly/90gMWT
  • RT @CopestoneTeam: London 2012 Olympics criticised for protecting sponsors at the expense of civil liberties: http://bit.ly/cpm4uF #advertising #sponsorship
  • France veil ban a veiled way of attacking civil liberties while claiming to protect #women? @guardiannews http://bit.ly/9mSues #burqa
  • RT @CopestoneTeam: London 2012 Olympics criticised for protecting sponsors at the expense of civil liberties: http://bit.ly/cpm4uF #advertising #sponsorship
  • RT @copestoneteam London 2012 #Olympics criticised for protecting sponsors at expense of civil liberties: http://bit.ly/cpm4uF #sponsorship
  • London 2012 Olympics criticised for protecting sponsors at the expense of civil liberties: http://bit.ly/cpm4uF #advertising #sponsorship
  • Draconian laws for 2012 Games protect sponsors' rights but small print exposes threats to our civil liberties http://bit.ly/d22vYc
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