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Civil Liberties

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Visa suspensions could affect legitimate students »

Thousands of legitimate students have been affected by UK's suspension of student visas according to the president of the Education Consultants Association of Nepal. Uttam Prasad Pan said that Nepalese students may have been directly affected by the r...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Marcus De Wilde | Read more »

A debate to be had face-to-face »

Burka ban.

The niqab issue seems to have become a defining one, symbolic of Europe’s growing apprehension about the new ‘other’, namely Muslims. It is part of the new Muslim identity that some Muslim women in Europe are asserting in opposition t...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Gaffar Hussain | Read more »

Burqa ban »

Burka ban

A woman walks into an airport, she is clothed from head to foot, and her face is not visible due to her facial covering. What happens next? It entirely depends. If the woman in question is wearing bike leathers and a helmet then, as normal, somebody ...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Nigel Farage | Read more »

Straw dismisses convention on modern liberties »

Jack Straw

A conference on civil liberties was held in London last week, amidst increasing concerns over the government’s "unprecedented programme of challenges to our rights, freedoms and democracy." The convention on modern liberty, the first of its kind...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Constantine Innemée | Read more »

A slippery slope »

Camera

For those who advocate ever-closer surveillance of ordinary citizens in the UK, a familiar argument has come full circle. We are often told by these figures—such as home secretaries and chief constables—that we have “nothing to fear&...

Mon 23 Feb 2009 by Peter Murray | Read more »

Talking at Liberty »

David Blunkett

“I don’t miss the six-and-a-half day weeks, sixteen hours a day; I don’t miss the backbiting; and I don’t miss the inability to go and see Sheffield Wednesday when there are home games,” laughs David Blunkett. Today, howev...

Tue 20 Nov 2007 | Read more »

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