Wednesday 25th November

Police tactics at G20 slammed - but will anything change?

The final HMIC report on the G20 puts another nail in the coffin in the current oppressive model of protest policing.
Tuesday 24th November

Public service guarantees

Discussion of Britain's public service guarantees involved predictable fretting about "opening the floodgates to the vexatious, litigious and disaffected", rather than considering the people who stand to benefit from this advance

Where is Scotland going? Foreign lands and forgotten places

The future of Britain is at stake as the country heads towards an election year: a recent Scottish by-election gave Labour a surprising majority. Anthony Barnett takes this as the starting point for an exchange with Gerry Hassan on where a country with many parliaments is heading.

Graham Allen says it as it is

The long time Labour MP for Nottingham North issues a bitter, swinging assessment of the pernicious collusion of government and media that is strangling parliamentary democracy in Britain
Monday 23rd November

Peter Mandelson wants to turn off your internet

Peter Mandelson is drinking the record label kool-aid

Alien invasion!

I have just seen this and it seems all the more relevant today. No doubt if they try it again, it will be tasered first!

The E.U. as a surveillance society

The EU is developing a full spectrum dominance system of surveillance combing domestic and military, according to a new report

"Death on the Rock": 21 years later and still the official version lives on

Looking back on the shooting of three IRA members by an SAS squad on the streets of Gibraltar

Demarchy – can the people rule?

In a small nation on the Western margin of the British Isles, amidst sheep and rocks and old mines, the world’s first popular movement for demarchy is beginning to test its strength
Sunday 22nd November

The future of England

David Wildgoose's address to the Campaign for an English Parliament

Britain's new internet law

Britain's alarming Digital Economy Bill
Saturday 21st November
Friday 20th November

Shocking new threat to web freedom

The UK government wants to give itself dangerous new powers to protect copyright
Thursday 19th November

A rebellious Parliament, but not a democratic one

The current UK Parliament is one of the most rebellious in history - but this isn't a sign of democratic health.
Wednesday 18th November

Ireland's lost revolution

A new history of the Workers' Party inspires Robin Wilson to reflect on a movement that helped to change the face of modern Ireland

Grading Gordon on the Queen's Speech

The Queen's Speech offered Brown what will likely be his last chance to deliver on the new politics he has repeatedly promised.
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