Category Archives: laws

Fitwatch down

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It would seem that after posting an article offering advice to students on how to make getting arrested after committing criminal acts the site Fitwatch has been taken down at the request of the police. Unlike Dizzy I don’t think Fitwatch consider all police to be “brutal bastards” and quite liked what they were doing. Overt surveillance of peaceful demonstrations does have a chilling effect on protest, and the compilation of dossiers of protesters who haven’t broken any laws is not acceptable. So hampering police operations when they’re doing this, and playing them at their own game seems fair enough … Continue reading →

Still giving away power to the EU

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Do you remember that nice Mr Cameron seeming to promise not to give away more power to the EU without asking us first? Except of course it was only to block “new treaties” anything done under existing treaties is just fine. That this has had no effect on the tide of legislation coming from the EU and in fact wasn’t intended to have any effect was shown clearly when our new ConDem overlords adopted the EU arrest warrant. The EU is also setting up it’s own diplomatic service and can now supervise our national budget – and their latest acquisition … Continue reading →

Paranoid triangulation

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A couple of unrelated articles caught my eye a bit today and led me to wonder just how unrelated they really where, or rather to ponder the impact of both of them coming to pass. Old Holborn highlighted the NUJ calling for state support for the vital democratic work of “proper” journalists. Rather than deal with their work not generally being worth much they like us all to be taxed and then given vouchers to give to “proper” news outlets. I figure this actually has a reasonable chance of getting implemented in some form, as it’s a neat way for … Continue reading →