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Read →Michael Cross of the Guardian has written a piece on why he believes David Varney should be given an award for being the Convention’s ‘bravest attendee’. He writes:
“As the prime minister’s special adviser on “service transformation” – official-speak for joining up the data that government agencies hold on us – he’s one of the architects of the [...]
No CCTV, who ran a workshop at the Bristol Convention event, have set up a page for those wishing to continue the conversation begun on that day. The page includes many useful suggestions of how to get involved and get informed, and a mailing list for those who want to ‘opt in’.
NO CCTV have [...]
Lisa Blakemore-Brown from Autism Rights has provided a comprehensive transcript of her talk at the Convention in the ‘Child’s Play’ session, including further discussion around topic and a comprehensive appendix.
Distortion, Denial and Destruction: New Labour Legacy for Children with Disabilities and their Families
I welcomed the opportunity to represent the Autism Rights group at this [...]
Read →Below is a transcript of David Davis’ keynote speech.
The paradox of individual liberty is that it never depends on one individual as the number of people in this hall demonstrates. Behind me there are 60 million others.
When I was shadow Home Secretary I used to address all sorts of interesting groups. Some of them [...]
Tim Black for Spiked! has written an interesting piece on his thoughts on the Convention, and the problems he felt it encountered. Discussing the success of the Convention he writes:
“As a beginning, as a first attempt to bring together diffuse campaign and interest groups and start articulating a coherent response to the increasing intrusion of [...]
The author Oliver Dowlen has provided us with a full transcript of his talk on the topic of ‘Sortition and Freedom’ from the ‘Democracy and Liberty’ session. He has also included a useful selected bibliography for those who are unfamiliar with the subject.
We have heard a lot today about dissent, about objecting to the [...]
Read →Alice Dyke: Martin Whitlock has tackled the question of ‘What Next’ in his blog for the human politics website, and has provided an interesting angle from which to consider what needs to happen post-convention.
Mr Whitlock believes the ‘big’ question following the Convention is: “How deep do we dare go? Is it enough to campaign [...]
In his blog today Henry Porter has published a petition launched by retired senior police officer David Gilbertson, who has spoken of his concern regarding the police powers to ‘arrest any person for any offence’. Mr Gilbertson became concerned with the introduction of section 110 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, which has since allowed [...]
Read →This is the talk given by Professor Francesca Klug of LSE at the session on ‘How do we stop rights and freedoms being a political football?’
Sometimes it feels like the current climate is more like a wrestling, than a football match!
As all academics tend to do, I will try to deconstruct this question and address [...]
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