The Death of Irony
How could the intent of today’s column have passed so many people by?
Archive for the 'law & order' Category
A Modest Proposal for Tackling Youth
Here’s how the UK should pursue its war against young people.
Putting the Pope on Trial
International law presents a radical challenge to the powerful: they could be judged by the same standards as the rest of us.
Morality Policing
The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power
The Reckoning
Wherever Blair goes, our campaign ensures that he can never be free from the fear of arrest
A Bounty for Blair’s Arrest
Today I am launching a new fund – www.arrestblair.org – to reward people who attempt to arrest the former prime minister
The Hanging Judge
Why has Mr Justice Eady been allowed to conduct a one-man campaign against free speech?
Justice in Shades
A damning judgement on army killings suggests that officials at every level have covered up torture and murder.
The Busybody State
Why was the Big Green Gathering shut down by the authorities?
The Barbarians at the Gate
Why has policing in Britain gone so mad?
Printing Police Lies
The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume.
The Proceeds of Crime
The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives.
The Paranoia Squad
A British police unit is demonising peaceful protesters to stay in business.
The Price of Free Speech
A grotesque case of legal bullying using a 13th-Century law shows that in some respects we still haven’t shaken off feudalism.
Censored by Money
England’s mediaeval libel laws are becoming a global menace to free speech
Mind-Forged Manacles
Crime is down, convictions are down, but the prisons are bursting. Why?
Lost in the System
What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners?
Justice Undone
I didn’t get my man, but I helped to remind people what he’s done.
This Is Now a Protest for Democracy
To win an injunction against protests at Heathrow airport, BAA used a law which threatens our democratic rights
A Plague of Lawyers
Their over-representation in politics is partly responsible for a long sequence of oppressive laws.
The Darkest Corner of the Mind
US interrogators have devised a new form of torture. It debases the democracy they claim to be defending.
Defend Our Ranting Homophobes
People should be as offensive as they wish. But in Britain the police can decide whose views to ban.
Feeding Crime
If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food
Children of the Machine
New technological advances could make us susceptible to perpetual surveillance
Protesters are Criminals
And hardly anyone is contesting the new clampdown
Protest as Harassment
The new crime bill permits the police to stop almost any demonstration.
The Myth of Compensation Culture
Big business is seeking the freedom to kill its workers
A Thousand Dusty Codicils
Little by little, democracy is being banned
Riddle of the Spores
All the evidence points to government labs. Is this why the FBI has failed to solve the anthrax case?
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Wrong T-shirt son? You’re nicked
The act which came into force this week could make terrorists of us all
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Power Hides from the People
New market “freedoms” need the help of old-fashioned authoritarianism
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Illegal Beagles
In the name of preventing violence, the government is being asked to ban peaceful protest
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More Human Than We Are
Corporations are asserting their “human rights” to exploit the rest of us.
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Disruptive Protest is a Civic Duty
When the law is wrong it must be challenged. That’s progress
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Publish and Be Damned
Britain’s libel laws allow the rich and powerful to silence the excluded
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Protest and Survive
Britain has started the biggest civil rights clampdown in recent history
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Inequality Before the Law
The powerful enjoy immunity, while the law treats the powerless ever more harshly
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A Tax on Information
Government agencies are making us pay throught the nose for our right to know
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Silencing Dissent
Big companies are using the courts to stifle their critics
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Defective Inspectors
As the security services seek to justify their existence, harmless activists are being treated as terrorists
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A Seedy Business
Old plant varieties have been criminalised by a series of draconian laws intended to protect big corporations
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Hunting the Beast
I track down the police torturer who had me beaten up in 1989
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Why the Police Provoke Crowds
The police seem to want as much trouble as they can get.
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Publish and Be Damned
Britain’s libel laws allow the rich and powerful to silence the excluded
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Back to 1662
The Government’s repressive new laws contain eerie similarities to statutes passed hundreds of years ago
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