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Salami tactics – the end of Democracy

Last year, on a newspaper comment thread, someone called me a ‘nitwit’ because I said that civil liberties in the UK and USA are starting to resemble those found in places like China and North Korea. I’m not going to … Continue reading

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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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Syria

Yesterday, UK politicians voted against military intervention in the Syria conflict, although it was a close call: 272 votes for military action, 285 against. It’s the first time in modern history that MPs have voted against a Prime Minister’s call … 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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Sheep, Blind Mice and Ostriches

The Guardian ran a piece today about the Lavabit secure e-mail service, which has just been shut down by its owner, Ladar Levison, who said that he wouldn’t be “complicit in crimes against the American people” (here); ie, he wouldn’t … Continue reading

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Noam Chomsky gets interviewed

A month or so ago, Noam Chomsky gave a telephone interview to Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks. Over the decades I haven’t always agreed with Noam Chomsky (who’s now 84-years-old), yet in this interview he’s absolutely spot on with … Continue reading

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The Boston bombers reveal a police state

At the time of writing this is still a breaking story, yet I have to say that I’m astonished at the reaction by the US authorities towards two young men, the Boston bombers, one a 26-year-old, now shot dead by … Continue reading

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