Lost your password?

Blogs about: State Citizen Relationship

Featured Blog

Same old tripe from the Government

ukliberty wrote 17 hours ago: Minister of State Michael Wills in the Guardian: A new dialogue on data We need a rational, respectf … more →

Tags: abuse of English language, Accountability, database state, ID Cards, politicians on liberty, surveillance society

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear?

ukliberty wrote 20 hours ago: This Sun journalist applied for (and eventually received) an ID card. Why has the Sun censored his d … more →

Tags: ID Cards, rhetorical questions

Quite

ukliberty wrote 4 days ago: (hat-tip Andrew Watson) The Yorkshire Post: ANYONE tuning into the Radio 4 the other day may well ha … more →

Tags: database state, ID Cards, relates to ordinary people, Stupid

Another terrographer story

ukliberty wrote 1 week ago: The Evening Standard: A BBC photographer was stopped by police on suspicion of being a terrorist as … more →

Tags: Law and Order, control freakery, relates to ordinary people, Stupid

Was going to comment on...

ukliberty wrote 1 month ago: … the search and seizure powers given by this Government to bureacrats but CharonQC put it so … more →

Tags: Separation of powers, relates to ordinary people, Stupid

Man watches Ocean's 13... twice

ukliberty wrote 8 months ago: Call for resignation. Alix Mortimer makes a more sober comment: … And why, you might ask, am I … more →

Tags: Privacy, surveillance society, politicians on liberty, Accountability, Stupid

List of official harrassment of photographers in UK

ukliberty wrote 8 months ago: Matt Wardman has compiled this rather interesting list: Chris Dillow wrote about this in response to … more →

Tags: Law and Order

Melanie Phillips2 comments

ukliberty wrote 9 months ago: Melanie Phillips with some ill-informed, incoherent rubbish and derogatory comments about people who … more →

Tags: Law and Order

English Parliament2 comments

ukliberty wrote 9 months ago: George Monbiot in the Guardian: … Three nations in the United Kingdom, as a result of one of t … more →

Tags: Accountability

Why bother with labels?1 comment

ukliberty wrote 10 months ago: (Professor) Conor Gearty in the Guardian: Tony Benn’s strong defence of liberty a reminder to … more →

Tags: ID Cards, surveillance society, database state, DNA database

Expenses debacle symptomatic of the establishment's distrust of the public

ukliberty wrote 10 months ago: Peter Facey of Unlock Democracy, in the Guardian: … But the third lesson to be learned is one … more →

Tags: Accountability, database state, ID Cards, surveillance society

But why?!

ukliberty wrote 1 year ago: Gordon wants to go against the evidence and press ahead with presumed consent for organ donation. Go … more →

Tags: politicians on liberty

Labour's sense of entitlement

ukliberty wrote 1 year ago: Henry Porter in the Guardian: … under Labour, government has shown an increasing sense of enti … more →

Tags: database state

Apparently it's not your medical data, it's the state's

ukliberty wrote 1 year ago: The Guardian: The privacy of millions of NHS patients will be critically undermined by a government … more →

Tags: database state, politicians on liberty

Low rate of organ donation is a complex jigsaw1 comment

ukliberty wrote 1 year ago: Doesn’t ‘consent’ require some sort of positive action, explcitly saying ‘Ye … more →

Tags: politicians on liberty

How democracy works

ukliberty wrote 1 year ago: Geoff Hoon, the Transport [and Licences to Kill] Secretary, has made it clear that Greater Mancheste … more →

Tags: politicians on liberty, surveillance society

Pin the tail on the scapegoat

ukliberty wrote 1 year ago: Blears in the Guardian: … I would single out the rise of the commentariat as especially note-w … more →

Tags: Freedom of Speech, politicians on liberty, Accountability

Political Parties and Elections Bill

ukliberty wrote 1 year ago: Made it to Second Reading – debate here. Bill and progress here. … more →

Tags: party funding, politicians on liberty

Comedian not being funny about salary of MPs

ukliberty wrote 1 year ago: David Mitchell in the Observer: People moan about councils in the same way they moan about the weath … more →

Tags: Accountability


Have your say. Start a blog.

See our free features →

Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS