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Month: April 2009

  • Three more worrying stories about the Metro Police

    The Ian Tomlinson story just gets worse and worse. This one is just going to run and run, isn’t it? (Hat Top: Mr Eugenides). Meanwhile, the Evening Standard are picking up on the worrying trend for police to hide their ID numbers. And finally, the Guardian has this tale of how not to treat tourists…

  • Why is LabourList keeping silent about Tomlinson?

    For the last week I’ve been critical of the rightwing blogosphere for its silence – up to the point when the Guardian revealed its video footage – about Ian Tomlinson’s death. But there remains one other blog, which is broadly on the right but get desperately upset if you point that fact out, which has…

  • Tory bloggers: they don’t like it up ’em!

    I was surprised by the size of the response I got to my post on Tuesday about the police treatment of Ian Tomlinson. The level of traffic to this site brought back memories of when people used to actually read this blog. In terms of the people who have directly responded, they seem to fit…

  • Does the right really value freedom? The acid test.

    I’m trying to sum up how I feel having watched the video on the Guardian website of Ian Tomlinson being bit by a policeman with a baton while he had his hands in his pockets and was walking away from them. I’d say anger, but I think the honest answer is: panic. I watched it…

  • The dreaded spectre of the straw Fabian

    Liberator has marked the launch of the Social Liberal Forum with two articles which they have kindly allowed us to republish – one by SLF Director Matthew Sowemimo and the other by Federal Policy Committee member and writer David Boyle. David is a different kind of critic from someone like Charlotte Gore. Very much “one…