With news that the High Court has found the blanket stops & searches conducted by the police at Kingsnorth Climate Camp in 2008 to have been unlawful we have once again a proven case of the police acting in a manner far in excess of that permitted by Law. And once again we are reminded [...]
With the publication by the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights of their seventh Report “Demonstrating respect for rights? A human rights approach to policing protest” on 23rd March it would seem that many of the points I was discussing in “Britain 2009” regarding the police misuse of “anti-terror” legislation in dealing with protests and [...]
The repercussions from last year’s Climate Camp at Kingsnorth in Kent (or rather, the repercussions from the policing of said event) just seem to be going on and on. We now have an article by Tracy McVeigh published in The Observer on 1st March “Police ‘over the top’ at climate camp“. Whilst the article focusses [...]
The ongoing saga of the so-called “Summer of Rage” sees another instalment with the publication in The Guardian on 27th February of the following comment by Kevin Smith, a participant in the Camp for Climate Action: “Summer of rage? It’s a figment of febrile imaginations According to your news report, there is concern at Metropolitan [...]
… or that of something seen only in a dream being vindicated by the unfolding of events in waking life. Not directly or strictly to do with the freedoms we’re so rapidly losing, although there is a connection and its not too difficult to make. On 16th February this year s.76 of the Counter Terrorism [...]
