The government has launched a new website where people can post petitions for signature.  If a petition gets at least 100,000 signatures, it will may be debated in the House of Commons.  The petitions website is here http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/index.html. One of the first campaigns to be launched is the so-called Restore Justice campaign, arguing for the [...]

A new report from eurosceptic campaign group Open Europe, entitled “How the EU is watching you: The rise of Europe’s surveillance state” claims that the EU is a threat to civil liberties in the UK.  They are obviously aiming at the wrong target.   The starting point for criticism of this report is the fact [...]