Charter 88 (now part of Unlock Democracy) has released the book ‘Unlocking Democracy’ in commemoration of it’s 20th anniversary. Nick Clegg MP joined Ferdinand Mount and Helena Kennedy QC in speaking at it’s launch on Tuesday, and Guy Aitchison has blogged the evening on OurKingdom.
Both Nick Clegg and Guy strike a cautiously optimistic note, saying that while we [...]
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Charter 88 celebrates 20 years
New video: Brian Eno
A new video by musician Brian Eno has just gone up. Brian sees the Convention as an opportunity to asess where we are with civil liberties and see where we could or need to be. He would like to think around what rights there might be in the future, for example in the creative industries, [...]
Read →Carnival on Modern Liberty: First Edition
James Graham has posted the first edition of the Carnival on Modern Liberty up on Liberal Conspiracy. It was, as James notes, a very busy week, leading to lots of great posts. Take a look at James’s slection here and submit your own posts for the next carnival which takes place on OurKingdom.
Read →Free speech and football fans
After I posted last week on police using sweeping new powers in the Violent Crime Reduction Act to target entire groups of football supporters with banning orders, regardless of whether or not an offence has been committed, Tim Black got in touch with me to draw my attention to an article he’d written for Spiked. The [...]
Read →Programme taster now up
A pdf “taster” of the final convention programme has gone up on the Programme page. Our designer, Leon Harris, did a brilliant job putting it together at short notice. The final programme will be around 30 or so pages with details of all the sessions, interesting articles on civil liberties and lots of other useful [...]
Read →First group meets to discuss the Convention
The following is a report of a discussion on some of the issues raised by the Convention on Modern Liberty by the Open Circle, a discussion group that meets regularly in Leek, Staffordshire. The discussion took place January 13th.
We hope to publish very soon some discussion aids which will help groups meeting across the [...]
New Video: Shami Chakrabarti
A new video by Director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti, has just gone up. Shami describes how state intrusions often target the most vulnerable in society and urges those who care about civil liberties to protect the Human Rights Act against attempts to restrict rights to British citizens.
Convention launch party: new photos
I’ve posted some new photos of the Convention launch party up into the Convention flickr group. Here’s one of Bob Gelfdof pledging his support for the Convention:
And here’s novelist Sebastian Faulks:
There’s loads more on flickr.
Read →New video: Henry Porter on what the Convention can achieve
Convention Co-Director Henry Porter on the failure of Parliament to protect our liberties and what the Convention on Modern Liberty can achieve.
Read →Guardian’s liberty central launched
Today saw the launch of the Guardian’s fantastic new site dedicated to civil liberties, liberty central.
Convention Co-Director Henry Porter’s blogs and articles will be a big part of liberty central alongside regular blogs and videos on the issues dealt with by the Convention in the run up to the day itself. Modern Liberty kicks off [...]
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