Showing posts with label Shami Chakrabarti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shami Chakrabarti. Show all posts
Friday, December 07, 2018

The well-worn path from Liberty to being a Labour hack

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When I was a teenager and had already decided I was a Liberal, two of the big names in civil liberties campaigning were Patricia Hewitt an...
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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Six of the Best 655

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"Britain is the most centralised country in the Western world. Its political system is weighted overwhelmingly towards Westminster, w...
Sunday, October 09, 2016

Tim Farron slams Shami Chakrabarti's intention to abstain on Snooper's Charter

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Embed from Getty Images I am more and more puzzled by the actions of Shami Chakrabarti, who has junked her reputation to serve und...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Shami Charkrabarti goes to Eton

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Embed from Getty Images The latest episode in the slide in Shami Charkrabarti's reputation came on Newsnight yesterday evening...
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Saturday, August 06, 2016

Six of the Best 616

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"The mood wasn’t defensive, but confident, even swaggering. Corbyn had claimed on stage that he ‘wasn’t going to get down in the gutt...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

No Sandi Toksvig on Cambridge shortlist

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It seems it was just press speculation. The shortlist to be the next Liberal Democrat candidate for Cambridge is: Tim Bick Belinda Brooks-Go...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

CCTV cameras in school lavatories

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There has been a row this week over the decision of a school in Norwich to install CCTV cameras to monitor the sink area in the lavatories. ...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Lib Dems announce membership of their privacy commission

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Nick Clegg today announced the membership of the party’s Commission on Privacy. It will examine the use, abuse and retention of private data...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Chris Huhne on Jacqui Smith's climbdown

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My new friends at the New Statesman have just posted an article by Chris Huhne on the government's defeat over 42 days' detention f...

Shami Chakrabarti celebrates the defeat of 42 days

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Good stuff in the Guardian : From Diane Abbott and Frank Dobson on the left to David Davis and Dominic Grieve on the right, democratic polit...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Chris Huhne on identity cards

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From the Independent : Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said cards were a "grotesque intrusion" on the liberty ...
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