coronavirus bill
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UK Gov’t to make some “Covid Laws” permanent
Some of the UK’s “temporary” measures intended to help “deal with the pandemic” are going to be added to future legislation and made permament laws by the spring of this year. Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch sends joint letter on unlawful Coronavirus prosecutions and convictions behind closed doors to the Secretary of State for Justice
Big Brother Watch, alongside other trusted rights groups, has written to the Secretary of State for Justice about the single justice procedure and unlawful coronavirus prosecutions and convictions behind closed doors. Continue reading
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Netpol calls for restrictions to police powers and a strict time-limit on ‘draconian’ Coronavirus Bill
While everyone is currently very anxious about the future, it is important that any emergency response the government plans to adopt and implement to contain the coronavirus is fair and proportionate. Continue reading
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COVID 19: Playing with the numbers
The mortality statistics for COVID 19 have been incessantly hammered into our heads by the mainstream media (MSM). Every day they report these hardest of facts to justify the lockdown (house arrest) and to prove to us that living in abject fear of the COVID 19 syndrome is the only sensible reaction. Continue reading
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The inevitable erosion of our civil liberty after the COVID-19 crisis
It was only one month ago that Big Brother Watch, the Civil liberties group warned that the Coronavirus Bill contained the “most draconian powers in peacetime Britain” and urged close scrutiny from Parliamentarians. It was ushered through and became an Act of Parliament without scrutiny or protest. Continue reading