Slices of MY freedom being shaved off, every single fucking day Refering back to Leg Irons post on Who will Save Us? Perhaps we should have a look at the slices of liberty that are gently being shaved away from our freedom by the crazy 646. We have had over 3000 new laws introduced by them as they seek to regulate and monitor, prosecute and ostracise the individual. I tried to sell a grey squirrel...

The Prison Service in Scotland is the first Prison Organisation in the UK to replace its complete communications infrastructure with digital radio – and has selected Sepura TETRA terminals as an integral part of this important initiative.

The splendiferous Doc Searls has an alarming article about an outfit called the Global Internet Freedom Consortium. Global Internet Freedom Consortium sell tools to break the Great Internet Wall of China. Cool. They also sell the private details of their clients who have purchased these tools to 'vetted' companies for 'personalised advertising'. Extremely un-cool... catastrophi...

Chris Huhne: "don't listen to me. Seriously. I'm a total cunt." Chris Huhne's snippet (it's not really an article) in The Independent has caused an outpouring of contempt amongst my libertarian colleagues not seen since Gordon Brown last opened his fat, droppy gob. Freedom of speech is our most precious freedom of all, because all the other freedoms depend on it. OK, so freedom of speech is pretty...

Royal Mail is likely to be partly or wholly in private hands within two to three years, giving it freedom to escape the Treasury's control and raise money to invest, according to the minister in charge of privatising the service

The Demon Headmaster Jack Straw has backed down on trying to remove the defence of freedom of speech from a new law making inciting homophobic hatred a criminal offence. The Lords prevented the Ministry of Injustice from removing the right to freedom of speech four times before Jack Straw finally gave up. This new law – along

Acceptance trials for LCS-1 Freedom are completed, and the verdict is in. Navy inspectors have recommended that service officials accept the first littoral combat ship, the Freedom, after the ship finished its acceptance trails Aug. 21 on Lake Michigan, top acquisition officials announced Wednesday. The Board of Inspection and Survey concluded that the Freedom was a “capable, well-built and insp...

One of the most important aspects of the rule of law is that we are all entitled to use the law to our best advantage. The most obvious example of this is probably tax law in which there is a clear difference between minimising your tax liability by taking advantages of exemptions allowed by law (known as tax avoidance) and simply fiddling the figures thereby not paying tax that is due by law (tax...

On Monday a new law came into effect allowing the arrest of people taking photographs of police constables "likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism". It is a pig's breakfast of a law, and shows the complete disregard in Whitehall both for civil liberties and also for high-quality law making. Jacqui Smith's bad legislation is partly the result of her fa...

First we had 'freedom of the use of the press' meaning anyone could print off their material of choice. Now that's become 'freedom of the press' which apparently means we have these super-citizens known as the press, able to ignore the law as it applies to lesser-mortals. Still, even accepting that, there's no way you can read freedom of the press as meaning that citizens are legally required to a...