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Friday, September 19th, 2008By Mark Hookham | Lancashire Police should delete the DNA records of around 4,000 youngsters held on a computer database, the Liberal Democrats have demanded. Delegates at the party's Bournemouth conference overwhelmingly backed a motion to strip out the samples of all under-16s, unless they have been convicted of a violent or sexual offence. Under current laws, samples can be taken and recorded from youngsters who have been arrested for any ...
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The price of free speech
Thursday, September 18th, 2008By George Monbiot | So we saw him off. Last week, in a victory for both medicine and free speech, Matthias Rath dropped his libel suit against the Guardian. But it seems amazing that the courts of this country allowed him to pursue this case. Rath, a German doctor, appears to have encouraged South Africans suffering from HIV to stop using anti-retroviral drugs and take his vitamin pills ...
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How the press swallows MoD propaganda
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Media Workers Against the War | Last month the press reported how friendly fire in a bungled assault killed a British soldier in Helmand last year. They all neglected to remind their readers, however, how they first reported the operation – as a noble tale of heroism and comradeship. In January 2007 the British papers went wild over a “...
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Taxis Get CCTV Cameras
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008TAXI drivers have welcomed proposals to improve passenger and driver safety, including tougher driver testing and compulsory installation of CCTV. Changes to the licensing of cabs operating in Gravesham were recommended for approval at a Gravesham Borough Council Cabinet meeting on Monday with a final decision expected in January next year. If the initiative is approved, Gravesham will be the first borough in the country to introduce compulsory CCTV into its taxis. The ...
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Government whittles down ID scheme suppliers
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008By Nick Heath | The government has taken another step towards tying up which companies will be in charge of the UK ID cards scheme. The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has further whittled down the companies shortlisted to deliver parts of the ID card system and passport-application scheme. IBM and Thales are through to the next round of discussions for a £500m ...
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Fears over privacy as police expand surveillance project
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008By Paul Lewis | The police are to expand a car surveillance operation that will allow them to record and store details of millions of daily journeys for up to five years, the Guardian has learned. A national network of roadside cameras will be able to "read" 50m licence plates a day, enabling officers to reconstruct the journeys of motorists. Police have been encouraged to "fully and ...
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Capitalism breeds wars and recession
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Banks go bust, Markets in chaos – Put people before profit The collapse of Lehman Brothers, the fourth biggest investment bank in the US, has left the world reeling. Millions of people are worrying for their jobs, homes, savings and pensions. It was entirely predictable that the financial system would go into crisis. The trigger was the US “subprime” mortgage crisis where lenders targeted poor people with loans at extortionate rates of ...
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Union leaders stifle growing militancy of London Underground workers
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008By Daniel O’Flynn and Paul Mitchell | Leaders of the Rail, Maritime and Transport trade union (RMT) are seeking to stifle the growing militancy on the London Underground rail system and prevent the development of a political opposition to the Labour government. On August 19, the RMT Executive suspended a 72-hour strike by 1,000 engineers and maintenance workers at private infrastructure company Tube Lines after accepting a wage deal of ...
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Making Money From Education
Sunday, September 14th, 2008London Progressive Journal | The American education company Kaplan has announced plans to open a profit seeking university in the UK. Although only a small beginning, this opens the way to a profit-driven higher education system. The first move was the government’s, who recently relaxed laws on who can award degrees. They are in effect trying to open up the concept of a degree ...
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BNP accounts don’t add up
Friday, September 12th, 2008When the British National Party told its members in January that it had raised £70,000 as a result of its “Building to Grow” appeal, Searchlight was sceptical. After all, the appeal was launched just as the internal crisis erupted last December. Who in their right mind, we thought, would donate such sums to a party that seemed about to collapse. We were wrong. A printout of transactions on the BNP’s main ...
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September 20th: Stop The War Coalition Demonstration in Manchester
Thursday, September 11th, 2008What will British foreign secretary David Miliband say in his speech to Labour's annual conference in Manchester? It's all too predictable. 'We' are 'winning' in Iraq, making 'progress' in Afghanistan, defending 'democracy' in Georgia, confronting Iran to protect world 'security' and waging endless war against 'global terrorism'. 'We' stand "shoulder to shoulder" with George Bush and whoever his successor may be in following slavishly wherever US foreign policy takes 'us'. There ...
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UK activist faces 12 year sentence after RNC protests
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Indymedia | Dave Mahoney was cycling to the grocery store with his girlfriend in Minneapolis on September 4th 2008, when an un-marked van pulled up, and two men wearing FBI shirts inexplicably bundled him into the back, and drove off. Dave was part of the protesters assembled at the Republican National Convention in the City that week, and was there to peacefully remind America and the rest of the ...
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ID scheme plans 50,000 cards by April
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008The National Identity Scheme will produce just 50,000 cards in its first few months – and has yet to define the role or budget of its commissioner. In response to a parliamentary written question from Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary Chris Huhne, home secretary Jacqui Smith said that about 50,000 identity cards will be issued between the scheme's launch for foreign nationals between November and April 2009. "Volumes will rise rapidly ...
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Liquid bomb plot: three guilty of murder conspiracy
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008By Vikram Dodd | Three men were yesterday convicted of conspiring to commit mass murder through suicide bomb explosions, but a jury failed to reach a verdict on the allegation they were part of the biggest terrorist plot since the September 11 attacks. The Crown had alleged that eight Britons planned to blow up at least seven airliners heading to North America with 1,500 people aboard, ...
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Alistair Darling and the implosion of the Labour government
Saturday, September 6th, 2008By Chris Marsden | The August 30 Guardian interview with Britain’s Chancellor Alistair Darling was extraordinary in many respects. In the first place there can be few occasions that so dramatically reveal the sense of profound crisis within ruling circles in Britain. Darling admitted to Decca Aitkenhead that the economic times we are facing “are arguably the worst they’ve been in 60 years... And I think it’s going to be ...
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