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Is authoritarianism on ebb in the UK?
Updated 24 November 2009 (scroll the bottom of the post to see latest updates) If you read this article in the Independent, you might come away feeling relieved that the great tide of authoritarianism… more →
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Is authoritarianism on ebb in the UK?
ecologics wrote 3 weeks ago: Updated 24 November 2009 (scroll the bottom of the post to see latest updates) If you read this arti … more →
Will the police be taking a DNA sample from Tony McNulty's cheek?
ecologics wrote 1 month ago: In some of this blog’s very first posts (see A Social Ecology of the Buccal Swab, or McNulty … more →
Jack Straw: 'as slimy as an oil slick'
ecologics wrote 1 month ago: New Labour cannot evade responsibility for the rise in the popularity of the BNP. Amongst New Labour … more →
Monbiot on Justice David Eady and Libel Law in the UK
ecologics wrote 1 month ago: The following is an excerpt of a post published by George Monbiot about Sir David Eady, a judge of t … more →
Manchester Airport: Take off your clothes so we don't have to touch you
ecologics wrote 1 month ago: A remarkable experiment in public nudity—and the invasion of one’s most private space … more →
New Labour: Is it a small world after all?
ecologics wrote 2 months ago: Who is behind New Labour’s sweeping policies? It is well known that New Labour won the last el … more →
Westminster's Corruption and the Asymmetry of Panopticism
ecologics wrote 6 months ago: In a post published in 2007, EcoLogics noted that panopticism involves a form of power that is embod … more →
The BBC and New Labour's DNA Database (Updated)
ecologics wrote 7 months ago: …What we’ve found is that since keeping DNA of people who have been arrested … at some t … more →
New Labour's Spiral of Terror (V): the other 9/11
ecologics wrote 7 months ago: ‘It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dan … more →
New Labour’s Spiral of Terror (IV): Blunkett's Law (updated)
ecologics wrote 7 months ago: ‘I don’t think anyone can say that I have said one thing in public and done another in p … more →
New Labour's Spiral of Terror (III): RIPA 2000 and Blair's Hobbesian Ideal
ecologics wrote 7 months ago: We asked the police what powers they wanted and gave them to them –Tony Blair, during speech a … more →
New Labour's Spiral of Terror (II): The policing of 'views'
ecologics wrote 7 months ago: ‘…got a reference to capitalism and communism’...‘It’s one of the things he’s being arrested for’ … more →
New Labour's Spiral of Terror (I)
ecologics wrote 7 months ago: And it [a New Labour government] will be a government that seeks to restore trust in politics in thi … more →
Ian Tomlinson’s Death and the State of Policing in Britain
ecologics wrote 8 months ago: When the police interviewed me, I said that I saw no violence toward this individual, which I didn … more →
New Labour's Amazonia
ecologics wrote 11 months ago: The following news make headlines in the Guardian today: ‘Ministers are planning to force GPs to imp … more →
European Court Rules on New Labour DNA Samples: Victory for UK's Civil Liberties
ecologics wrote 1 year ago: News just in: the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the New Labour government’s de … more →
'Blunkett's Law' and the Inland Revenue's catastrophic loss of information
ecologics wrote 2 years ago: Note: this post consolidates three posts written on the subject on November 21st From yesterday … more →
You and Your DNA
ecologics wrote 2 years ago: It looks like the BBC has done it again: it has broadcast another programme that contributes to what … more →
McNulty's Genie (or the power of quasi-ecumenical debate)
ecologics wrote 2 years ago: (Note: The following post is the last in a series about an interview given by Lord Justice Sedley to … more →
