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Category Archives: Police
Authors attack Big Brother
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 December 2013 A STAND FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE Hundreds of Writers sign Appeal … Continue reading
Fun and games
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 10 December 2013 You couldn’t make it up. The slime of state snooping into people’s private … Continue reading
Posted in Police, UK, USA
Tagged Big Brother, Edward Snowden, espionage, George Orwell, Ian McEwan, Leviathan, online gaming, state surveillance
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Superfast evolution in Cairo
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 October 2013 A confrontation between police and unarmed protesters. Police fire into the air. Fifty … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Police, Politics
Tagged Charles Darwin, evolution, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Tahrir Square
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Domestic extremists and secret police
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 March 2013 Ever vigilant to protect Britain’s national security, the country’s secret police have unearthed … Continue reading
Posted in Police, UK, USA
Tagged arms trade, domestic extremism, EDO, George W.Bush, John Catt, secret police, spooks
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Skydiving without a parachute
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 24 February 2013 “While we were at Stratford we had lunch with a man I’ve known … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, Military, Police, UK, USA
Tagged helicopters, interrogation techniques, skydiving, Straford-upon-Avon, Vietnam War
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Hanged for a sheep
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 18 December 2012 “I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Police, Politics, UK
Tagged 1984/85 miners' strike, Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, Old Etonians, Ronald Reagan, Rotherham
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Thin-skinned Brits
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 15 December 2012 BEST KEEP MUM John Richards, an atheist pensioner from the County of Lincolnshire … Continue reading
Posted in Police, Religion, UK
Tagged 1986 Public Order Act, Big Brother, civil liberties, internet surveilance, Magna Carta, Runnymede, secret courts
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Ee, ba gum!!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 October 2012 Incredible but true. This is a story of the blind shooting the blind. … Continue reading
Posted in Japan, Police, UK
Tagged Chorley, daimyo, Lancashire, Muslim, samurai, Taser
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