The pre-Olympic 'clean up' is well underway in London, with homeless people, sex-workers and other marginal groups being managed and, sometimes violently, concealed. Far from exceptional circumstance, this initiative in the capital is worryingly indicative of a trend of wider authoritarian measure
With the advent of ‘talking’ CCTV cameras, our surveillance society has reached new levels: we are no longer simply watched, but also 'told off' for 'bad behaviour'. Whatever happened to the civic spirit!
