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Published in: openSecurityIn search of security: "there to keep the peace"Film: Testimony of the violence of a police-led eviction and experience of the policing which comes from racist...
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Published in: openSecurityBlack justice campaigns prepare for new inquiry into undercover policing
It has recently emerged that the UK police have been spying on black justice campaigns for decades. Home Secretary...
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Published in: openSecurityIt's the morality, stupid!
Why do Britons want more policing, prisons and punishment? The political left need to incorporate morality into...
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Published in: openSecurityLosing PrideLondon's Gay Pride includes the Metropolitan Police marching in full uniform. Visibility as proud LGBTQ police...
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Published in: openSecurityThe realities of a daily trip to the jobcentre in a wheelchair
Film: a journey to the jobcentre reveals the near-Kafkaesque experience many have of the UK government's system of...
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Published in: openSecurityBuilding the blacklist: police spies and trade unionistsIn 2009 a UK construction industry blacklist, administered by a private company holding files on thousands of...
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Published in: openSecurityOutside the jobcentre: talking with jobseekers
Interviews with unemployed and underemployed people reveal the exacting impact of dealing with jobcentres and...
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Published in: openSecurityPolicing academia: exporting 'expertise', importing marketisation
Manchester Metropolitan University is working with the Qatari government to train Qatari police officers. What does...
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Published in: openSecurityThe new Russian power blocA quarter century after Mikhail Gorbachev supervised the collapse of Europe’s cold-war division, a world of new...
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Published in: openSecurityBarton Moss: policing in the absence of democracyViolence has been a running theme within the policing of anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss. Individual officers...
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Published in: openSecurityRacism: troubling truths
Fighting racism in Europe is not easy when Europe has two hands tied behind its back—debilitated by neo-liberal...
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Published in: openSecurityFive thoughts on abolishing the Met
Whilst seemingly necessary and incisive, recent calls to 'abolish' London's Metropolitan police do not go nearly far enough.
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Published in: openSecurityThe violence of denial
Twenty-one years since the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in South London, the criminal justice system maintains...
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Published in: openSecurityBritain’s strategic pause: lessons from an insecure and interventionist century
After 100 years of continuous war, can Britain learn the limits of military action to respond to shifting realities...
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Published in: openSecurityWhite-washing the water cannon: salesmen, scientific experts and human rights abusesScrubbing away the white-wash of 'less lethal' riot control reveals a history littered with humanitarian disasters,...
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Published in: openSecurityUkraine: what next?There was a way out of the Ukraine crisis this week, through dialogue and accommodation. But the regime, backed by...
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey: trade unionism on trialAs the Erdogan government in Turkey takes an increasingly authoritarian turn, trade unionists have been in the...
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Published in: openSecurityHow was he to know? The cracking of the Ukraine regimeUkraine’s parliament has abandoned the law to curb public protests only recently introduced and the prime minister...
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Published in: openSecurityBritain, Turkey and trading human rights for 'counter-terrorism'openSecurity was inspired by a 2005 conference in Madrid on the anniversary of the Atocha station bombings, marked...
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Published in: openSecurityUndocumented migrants: time to change the European discourseMost undocumented migrants in Europe are not products of irregular entry and humanitarian crises such as that at...
