There’s a very interesting discussion taking place of the recent JRRT report on The Database State (pdf) over at Bill Dutton’s blog at the Oxford University Internet Institute. Dutton argues that the report “does not explain its methodology or the nature of the evidence on which the authors draw their conclusions.” There is, he argues, no [...]
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The Left and liberty – Report
Amalia Kontesi (UCL Student Human Rights Programme): Although many would expect hesitancy from the members of the panel, considering the ability of the left to safeguard liberty, the outcome of this discussion was the exact opposite. It is true that in its pursuit of equality, the Left has often sacrificed liberty in the past and despite [...]
Read →New video from Voices from the Crowd…
Some of you will remember the video produced on the day of the Convention by Voices from the Crowd – if you missed it, you can check it out here. The same team have now produce a similar video based around Avaaz’s Put People First March in London, which you can see on the website [...]
Read →Human Rights and Global Responses – Report
Evelyn Wong (UCL Student Human Rights Programme): Wars, climate change, the credit crunch and their fallout present a historic window of opportunity to raise the bar in human rights development. Equally, however, they present the danger of human rights being swamped by exaggerated and paranoid political rhetoric. It was thus with a mixture of hope [...]
Read →Coming to a billboard near you…
While jogging through the outskirts of Oxford today, I noticed this striking hoarding:
Note the CCTV camera watching over its children like a vigilant father.
It turns out that this poster is part of a major advertising campaign launched by the police to encourage us to give informing a go. But its placement on an access road [...]
Read →Brief report sent to Convention participants
The following brief report on the Convention was sent out to partipants today. Please email us your responses or leave a comment at the end of this post.
Dear participant,
This is a brief report on the Convention on Modern Liberty and a request to hear back from you.
Volunteers are publishing videos and transcripts of the 22 [...]
The Convention under attack!
It’s said that if you’re being attacked in politics you must be doing something right (presumably because it means you’re not being ignored!). Since its launch the Convention on Modern Liberty has drawn attacks from a number of sources, including senior figures in government. Here we reproduce just a few of the many exchanges that [...]
Read →A Great Repeal Bill?
There’s a lively discussion taking place over at Liberal Conspiracy in response to Anthony Barnett’s proposals for what next after the Convention. The Lib Dems have done a fantastic job with the Freedom Bill which would repeal all the illiberal legislation passed in the last decade. The question is how do we take the issues [...]
Read →Transcript – Police Q&A
Below is a transcript of the Police session Q&A, however the names of individual speakers are unspecified.
Q: Andrew Smith The question is what happens to those points if the police pick someone up and they go to court and are acquitted.
Hilary Wainwright: So the question from Andrew Smith is What happens to the Sanction Detection [...]
Transcript – Human Rights and Global Responses Q&A
Below is a transcript of the Human Rights and Global Responses Q & A
I was asked by the organisers to generate as much of a debate as possible, so I’m going to take questions from the floor and if you could identify yourselves briefly in whatever way you want. The gentleman here in the grey [...]
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