civil liberties Articles

That David Davis is opposed to identification cards for British citizens, but not European Union migrants, sets a very worrying precedent, writes Young Fabians secretary Kuba Stawiski It is frankly astonishing how quickly the defenders of civil liberties disappear...

Many of us have just celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. Not because it was a great piece of legislation – it wasn’t. But it was a major achievement for disabled people in the long campaign for equal rights. The disability...

The United Kingdom Independence party has in today’s Telegraph set out its manifesto, including the promise to ‘reverse the opt-in to the European arrest warrant, because Britain believes in "innocent until proven guilty”’.  This is an example of a completely outdated...

As soon as they formed a government the coalition started to dismantle the Labour government’s anti-terrorist policies. Gone was the ‘Prevent’ strategy, which was tackling the roots of extremism was ‘updated’ – that is weakened and funding was cut. Worse, control...