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Smoke filled rooms and inverted totalitarianism

In a previous post I was banging on about a bill that’s now going through parliament that will effectively make peaceful protest unlawful. It’s called the ‘Anti-Social Crime and Policing Bill’. There’s also another quite worrying bill that’s being rushed … Continue reading

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Rule, Britannia

Yesterday, David Miranda, a Brazilian citizen, was detained for nine hours at Heathrow Airport while transiting from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro. Miranda is the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who’s breaking the Edward Snowden stories. It seems certain … Continue reading

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