Bristling Badger

When is civil disobedience violent terrorism? Whenever the police want it to be. Not very funny is it? To be honest, it's even less fu...

I've started doing social media and blogging for the Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance . It's an umbrella group campaigning for ...

Further to yesterday's post about police visiting someone for tweeting rigorously annotated references to UKIP's policies and, desp...

Five of the antifascists arrested at last June's anti-BNP demo at the Cenotaph were acquitted by Westminster magistrates this mornin...

This clipping comes from the Newbury Weekly News, 22 February 1996. It was the height of the protest against the Newbury Bypass, hundreds of...

I saw Tony Benn speak a few times but beyond what he said to the mass audience I was even more struck by how he treated people individually ...

The public inquiry into policing must cover all the interlaced police spy units that did identical work, rather than being limited to one ...

The scandal of Britain's political secret police keeps widening, and those affected are banding together to maximise pressure for trut...

Barton Moss near Manchester has been the front line of the anti-fracking campaign in the UK. Police have shown a predictable level of impart...

Another 29 convictions quashed because undercover cop Mark Kennedy's evidence was withheld from the court by police and prosecutors. I...

The problem with working for social change is that you never know if you're wasting your time. Only hindsight, and almost always a consi...

Some of the women survivors of long-term relationships with undercover police are back in court next week. Although very similar things happ...

I've been following the undercover policing scandal closely since it began and, as longer term readers may suspect, I've got a perso...

 This week I got a Facebook message from an old friend about their five year old. Today J heard the term 'Eco Warrior'. Discussio...

On Saturday thousands of people took to the London streets in a counter-demonstration to a march by 500 racist knuckle-draggers of the Eng...

Open Democracy have just published an article I've written about Britain's secret police, an overview of the various elements, the ...