Alice Dyke: Jack Straw has today announced his plan to re-write the Coroners and Justice Bill, under pressure from privacy campaigners and civil liberties groups. Privacy International have accused the Bill of failing to protect people from mass transfers of data. The Independent has called the move “a clear sign the Government is worried [...]
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UCLSHRP ‘making waves’ in the Guardian
Alice Dyke: The UCL Student Human Rights Programme has been praised by the Guardian Education Section for their report on the erosion of the UK’s civil liberties since 1997, a report commissioned by the Convention’s own Henry Porter. In a feature article, Harriet Swain has focused on the student-led programme as ‘making waves’, organising popular [...]
Read →Human rights and why they matter
The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) has produced a very interesting talking heads film on human rights and why they matter. The video asks participants in the BIHR’s annual conference, held on 28 January 2009, why human rights are important and how ‘the face’ of human rights can be changed. There’s some interesting comments [...]
Read →Tickets for London have sold out
Tickets for the London Convention have now sold out. To go on the returns list, please contact clare.coatman@modernliberty.net. Alternatively, you can attend one of the regional and national events or watch the live stream of the main hall on our front page. If you are unable to attend an event do watch out for other [...]
Read →Ignorance is bliss
In the run up to the Convention, we’re running a series of short blogs from each member of the Convention team. This one is by Miranda Porter who has responsibility for producing the CML Briefings.
Miranda Porter: Ignorance is bliss. This is almost certainly true of the majority of my generation when it comes to the [...]
The Observer: ‘The New Freedom Fighters’
Alice Dyke: Today’s Observer has christened the Convention team ‘The New Freedom Fighters‘. The article tells the story of the evolution of the Convention, and sets the scene for how Anthony Barnett and Henry Porter joined forces. Robert McCrum praises the Convention for avoiding ‘little Englander provincialism’, and discusses the need to focus on a [...]
Read →Carnival on Modern Liberty. 5
Alice Dyke: The latest and fifth edition of the blog Carnival on Modern Liberty is brought to you by Matt Wardman of The Wardman Wire. The blog roams across liberty issues such as the database state, centralised power, the cost of the survelliance state, and an collection of thoughts on ‘Keeping your mind free’. With [...]
Read →Do our politicians understand what ‘freedom of speech’ means?
I’ve been surprised at some of the people defending Jacqui Smith’s refusal to allow the Dutch politician Geert Wilders to enter the UK to show his anti-Islamic film ‘Fitna’ (viewable here). Take for example Chris Huhne, writing for the Liberty Central section of the Guardian’s website. Huhne begins by avowing his commitment to free speech, [...]
Read →What we’ve lost briefing: Download it here
The Convention on Modern Liberty has released a detailed report compiled for us by the UCL Student Human Rights Programme, listing all the liberties we’ve lost in the past decade. You can download the ‘Abolition of Freedom Act’ here.
The report was released by Convention Co-Directors Henry Porter and Anthony Barnett yesterday at a press conference [...]
Convention releases briefing on ‘what we’ve lost’
Phoebe Dickerson: Today’s Convention on Modern Liberty press conference hosted by the Foreign Press Association was alive with the determined spirit that we need to face up to what David Davis MP – fielding questions alongside Convention Co-directors Henry Porter and Anthony Barnett – dubbed the ‘casual repression’ of this government’s laws. The press conference [...]
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