Justified Thuggery

The atrocious behaviour of several police officers during the G20 protests in London demonstrate, with almost textbook simplicity, that the very base level of state legitimacy relies upon the right to resort to violence. Anyone who violently shoves a man to the ground, from behind let me add, is guilty of a particularly cowardly form [...]

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Can I see some ID sir?

The decision to introduce a National Identity Scheme was announced in the Queen’s Speech on 17 May 2005. The Identity Cards Act received royal assent, becoming law, on 30 March 2006. The introduction of biometric residence permits for foreign nationals in 2008 and the first ID cards to be issued to British citizens in will [...]

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Renationalisation and Elected Chiefs.

I am and always have been firmly against the privatisation of state owned industries, this position does not blind me however to the faults of nationalised industries nor to the benefits of privatisation. I’ve been thinking about restructuring existing goverment industries and doing the same with present private sector industries and services after first renationalising [...]

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