At 8.05 this morning, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg unveiled his latest pet project: the Your Freedom website, an internet forum in which members of the public are invited to discuss the laws they would like to see repealed and the civil liberties they would like to see restored. At 8.30, I signed up, fearing [...]

Filed under: civilliberties, conservatives, davidcameron, jonathanbirch, ukpolitics on July 1st, 2010 | No Comments »

In association with Cambridge Amnesty International, Clare Politics welcomes Irene Khan, the Secretary General of Amnesty International.
Always keen to draw attention to hidden human rights violations wherever they occur, Khan has dedicated her life to working directly with people to improve their lives. After more than twenty years of working in the field of international [...]

Filed under: amnesty, civilliberties, humanrights, irenekhan on January 17th, 2008 | No Comments »

Simple proposition. How on earth can we be comfortable with the government centralising information on all of us in a National Identity Database when it manages to lose the personal and financial details of 25 million people in the post?
Mistakes occur in any institution. Granted. But collating all the information on child benefit recipients onto [...]

Filed under: civilliberties, edballard, ukpolitics on November 25th, 2007 | No Comments »