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Liberty in Britain is suffering death by a hundred cuts

February 19, 2009 – 11:24 am

I still cannot quite believe this is happening to my country. It feels like a bad dream. But it is happening, and we must stop it. Now. By Timothy Garton Ash
For thirty years I have been travelling to unfree places, from East Germany to Burma, and writing about them in the belief that I was coming [...]

By John Kelly | Posted in Global security, Human rights, Identity cards, Law and order, Totalitarian drift, UK politics, Uk Home Office, War on Terror, citizens' rights, human rights abuse | Also tagged CCTV, Geert Wilders, Human rights, John Kelly, New Labour, surveillance society, terorism, Timothy Garton Ash | Comments (0)

Bob be Nimble, Bob be Quick. Resign from the enquiry now.

December 22, 2008 – 1:27 pm

Although THUS promised to stop wittering about the Damian Green arrest and various attempts to paint the Tories in the unlikely role of supporters of terrorism, yesterday’s ‘revelation’ that Bob Quick, Head of the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Unit, who is coincidentally leading the investigation into the Home Office leaks which resulted in the arrest of [...]

By John Kelly | Posted in Autos, Business, Law and order, Policy, Political spin, UK politics, Uk Home Office, War on Terror, miscarriage of justice | Also tagged Anti-Terrorist, Bob Quick, citizens' rights, Damian Green MP, David Cameron, Dominic Grieve, Gordon Brown, Jacqui Smith, metropolitan police, Uk Home Office | Comments (0)

Now Gordon has spun off to Afghanistan – make that Pakistan (see above)

December 13, 2008 – 5:16 pm

. . . . “I’ll put a girdle about the earth in forty minutes” Puck, Midsummer Night’s Dream
We heard this morning that UK Gordon Brown has broken off his constructive discussions with EU leaders to appear in Afghanistan to mourn the death of four British soldiers, killed in two bomb incidents, one where a 13 [...]

By John Kelly | Posted in Afghanistan, British Constitution, EU policy, Europe, Human rights, Identity cards, Insurgency, International Affairs, Iraq, Law and order, Policy, Political spin, UK politics, Uk Home Office, Uncategorized, War on Terror, citizens' rights, human rights abuse | Also tagged Afghanistan, Al Quaeda, Gordon Brown, Iraq War, Operation Kratos, UK Constitutional crisis, UK knife crime, UK politics, War on Terror | Comments (1)

Gordon's advice to Sarkozy and Barroso: turn Europe into a police state

December 8, 2008 – 12:41 pm

. . .and we’ll all get rich spying on each other, apart from the UK, who prefers to outsource its spying to Johnny Foreigner.
by John J Kelly
The government’s bailout plan for threadbare foreign technology and data collection corporations is gathering pace, despite the fact that like Iraq, the Dome or the Special Relationship, the majority [...]

By John Kelly | Posted in British Constitution, Business, EU policy, Economics, Europe, Finance, Identity cards, Iraq, Law and order, Policy, Politics, Technology, UK politics, Uk Home Office, citizens' rights, consumers, human rights abuse | Also tagged Credit Crunch, EDS, EIB, European investment Bank, Fujitsu, Gordon Brown, IBM, Identity cards, John J Kelly, Libor, Manuel Barroso, Sarkozy, Siemens, Thales | Comments (0)

What about Pikey Police?

November 14, 2008 – 2:02 pm

This morning on Radio 4’s Today programme I heard about yet another report calling for a study into why more Muslims aren’t joining the UK police or getting promoted to grand wizard or something. ‘Muslim police chiefs are calling for “urgent” action to boost the number of Muslim police officers in Britain, to help tackle [...]

By John Kelly | Posted in Culture, Human rights, Law and order, UK politics, citizens' rights | Comments (0)