Civil liberties

Children revolt against classroom CCTV

22 May 2009:

Henry Porter: A walk-out at a school in Essex is a welcome rebellion against a system grooming them for the surveillance society

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We are failing the test of civilisation

22 May 2009: Iain Dale: Hay festival: The state is creating powers for itself in the face of a relatively small threat. Placing life before liberty brings life without liberty 61 comments

The tradition of the left is not one of authoritarianism

22 May 2009:

Shirley Williams: Hay festival: Tony Blair's first term promised great strides forward for human rights, but now the government has curtailed our freedoms

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Surveillance of protesters ruled illegal

21 May 2009: Photographing and storing images of campaigner Andrew Wood breached his human rights

Does the left still care about liberty?

Neoliberal ideology is based on selfish freedom and indifference to others, but we are truly free only when others are equally free