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Double whammy

Very clever, British Transport Police. Not only does your newspaper advert induce total, irrational paranoia (“BABIES and OLD MEN WITH HATS will be EXPLODED into THOUSANDS of SHAMI CHAKRABARTI SHAPED PIECES if we don’t SPY ON EACH OTHER!”). It also encourages people … Continue reading

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Rough justice? [Updated x2]

So an MA student at Nottingham University doing research into political Islam downloads a 1,500 page ‘terrorism manual’ from a U.S. government website, and asks his friend who works as a PA at the University to print it for him … Continue reading

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European Parliament to assert Lisbon powers in civil liberties and internal security?

Interesting times ahead in civil liberties in the post-Lisbon treaty era? An interesting analysis from the Centre for European Reform: The new politics of EU internal security: This is area of international co-operation that has long been the exclusive domain … Continue reading

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‘I Spy with Thy Lecturer’s Eye’

This is a story I wrote for publication in my University’s student newspaper. It went out in the 9th November edition of the Strathclyde Telegraph (which went out today, due to late printing). It was edited for publication somewhat but … Continue reading

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Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War

This story’s about the CIA’s policy of clandestine ‘renditions’, that of transferring terrorist suspects to outwith the USA, where constitutional and legal protections don’t apply, and someone else can do the ‘dirty work’, i.e. aggressive interrogation or torture. We already … Continue reading

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