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 [...]
Tag Archives: Human rights
Life in Bytes
December 1, 2008 – 7:20 pm
I’ve been sleeping much better these days now that I can look forward to a lovely identity card coming along sometime soon with my new passport. It’s great to know that I shall have my very own unique identity secured in digital format, no expense spared. I’ll no doubt be getting a full life [...]
UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith walks backwards to 1984
December 1, 2008 – 12:19 am
The awful events in Mumbai overshadowed a serious breach in democratic principles in the UK on 29 November, 2008. Nine counter terrorist police stormed the Kent home and Westminster offices of Conservative Shadow Minister Damian Green, searched his home, constituency and Westminster offices and detained him under the Official Secrets Act. The MP was [...]
Stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the US
November 25, 2008 – 11:56 pm
Thus is not normally a campaigning website, but please sign this petition on behalf of Gary McKinnon. The UK government and House of Lords have done nothing to protect a UK citizen’s rights. If it weren’t deadly serious, it would be risible, and is a horrible reminder of the nightmare slide into totalitarianism of the [...]