Archive for the ‘Civil Liberties’ Category
Surveillance-tastic!
I like the idea of kids familiarising themselves with situations, especially potentially confusing or upsetting ones, through play. And Playmobil is a company which has a really wide selection of situational stuff ranging from police officers to hospital sets to safecracking (I want my potential kids to know about all eventualities). Not to mention all [...]
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Tags: Airlines, Heh, Security, Surveillance, Toys
Gordon Brown would have welcomed headlines pointing out that yesterday’s results were a victory for the Labour government. David Cameron would have liked them to emphasise that the vote was won by pressure, promises and concessions on other issues to anyone who wanted them. I don’t think either of them wanted this. David Davis’s resignation [...]
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Tags: 42 Days, Civil Liberties, David Cameron, David Davis, Politics, The Sun, UK, UK Politics
That’s it, I’m leaving the UK
Except I can’t, because I already did. And I don’t believe the best way to solve problems is to abandon them, anyway. But there are days when I really, truly, wonder what the country is going to look like when I go back in a year or two. The bill to increase pre-charge detention limits [...]
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Tags: 42 Days, Brown, Cameron, Civil Liberties, Diane Abbott, In the News, Jacqui Smith, Politics, UK Politics
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