Old Holborn: Behind The Mask
(Photograph by Arfur Daley) The Backbencher’s Daniel Pryor interviewed Old Holborn: the controversial libertarian blogger and activist who has attracted fresh controversy after being suspended from...
View ArticleThe Timely Death Of Universalism
The State enforced sense of oneness has had its day. There has been much ado about universalism this week. The idea that everyone should benefit from the welfare state is not, however, universally...
View ArticleHow can we explain the 7% drop in recorded crimes?
Will Archdeacon, Crime decreased by 7% in 2012, though the reasons why are puzzling One of the most memorable scenes of UK politics in 2011 was Theresa May being heckled during a speech to the Police...
View ArticlePossibility of Private Sponsorship Deals for Police
By David McNeilage Monday night saw the BBC’s North West Tonight programme give just 10 seconds to a story that has the potential to be one of the defining moments of this generation with regards to...
View ArticleFresh Riots in Northern Ireland injure 56 Policemen
By Riley Maxwell On, 9th August 2013, last Friday night riots broke out once again in Belfast which left fifty-six police officers injured by loyalists contesting a republican parade. A contingent of...
View ArticleBritain is not a police state. Yet.
The past week’s events ought to be the catalyst for restoring civil liberties The arrest of David Miranda and destruction of The Guardian’s hard-drives was such a bizarre event that it has become...
View ArticleThe Notting Hill Dancing Coppers Versus Bureaucracy
A video has surfaced this week taken at the bank holiday weekend’s Notting Hill Carnival, where three lively police officers take to the centre of a large crowd of dancing carnival-goers and perform a...
View ArticleFirearms licensing needs a proper review, not knee-jerk reactions to Labour...
What happens when the British police can’t get the government to give them greater powers? They start a lobbying and media campaign hand-in-hand with the Labour Party. Don’t believe it? Take a look at...
View ArticlePolice called over blogger’s criticism of a political party
Michael Abberton, the man behind AxeOfReason, was recently contacted by police over his activity on social media. Abberton’s crime? An evaluation of a previously created Ukip poster, where he attempted...
View ArticleThe SNP Under a Microscope: The Most Authoritarian Party in Britain
Alongside UKIP, the SNP are set to be the wildcards in this year’s General Election, and with a strong performance by the party’s leader Nicola Sturgeon in the leadership debate this week attention is...
View ArticleTheresa May, weirdly, is on the right side of Stop and Search
Yesterday, the Home Secretary Theresa May confronted Britain’s police officers once again regarding causes of knife crime incidents. She rejected the country’s top police officer, Metropolitan Chief...
View ArticleREVEALED: Key Corbyn aid compared police officers to dumb animals
Jeremy Corbyn, especially since the recent terror attacks in London and Manchester, has claimed to be a big fan of the police. Such a big fan in fact that Labour pledged to recruit another 10,000...
View ArticleThe Timely Death Of Universalism
The State enforced sense of oneness has had its day. There has been much ado about universalism this week. The idea that everyone should benefit from the welfare state is not, however, universally...
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