Henry Porter, co-originator of the Convention on Modern Liberty, answers questions from Philip Hunt.
Read →The Convention Blog
CML interviews: David Davis MP
Philip Hunt questions David Davis MP about his reasons for resigning and standing for re-election in 2008, and about his future campaigning objectives.
Read →David Davis vs Harriet Harman
David Davis talks about the Convention and attacks the Government’s record on civil liberties on the Andrew Maar show. Harriet Harman responds.
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Report from Manchester
There’s an interesting report on the Manchester Convention by Clair Lewis of the Consenting Adult Action Network over at the Heresy Corner blog. According to Clair it was a well attended event with lots of interesting workshops, “lots was learned and lots of networking was done. Myths were busted, old friends reunited, supporters collected and [...]
Read →Bristol Convention: Video of politics panel
Here’s half an hour of the political session at the Bristol Convention which Tony Gosling recorded – just uploaded to Google Video.
Here’s the details of the session.
Afternoon session, 14:15, Politicians Panel Discussion
Chair, Andew Charlesworth (Bristol University)
Stephen Williams MP (Liberal Democrat)
Cllr. Dr. Mark Wright (Liberal Democrat)
Nick Foster (Green Party)
Molly Scott Cato (Green Party, declines to appear [...]
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
Good article by Suzanne Moore in the Daily Mail on how the country seems to be finally waking up to the systematic erosion of its most basic rights and freedoms. Suzanne develops some of the interesting points she made at the Liberty and slump session at the Convention and says why she thinks a new [...]
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 →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 [...]
EU Data Retention Directive endangers democracy
Jim Killock, the new Director of the Open Rights Group, has written a very interesting post for OurKingdom on the EU Data Detention Directive. Not only does the Directive breach our fundamental right to privacy, he argues, it threatens the very functioning of our democratic society.
Read →Carnival on Modern Liberty. 4
The latest edition of the blog Carnival on Modern Liberty is brought to you by Jennie Rigg over at the Yorksher Gob. This week’s edition is stuffed full of liberty-related posts from across the blogosphere brought to you in carnivalesque one liners. Get your ticket here and enjoy the ride!
Next week’s Carnival is hosted by Matt [...]
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