Bristling Badger

It's notoriously difficult to get police officers who kill convicted. The astonishing 2001 film Injustice documents a swathe of deaths ...

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

Among Nigel Farage's guests on last week's Question Time were David Dimbleby and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas. It was an interesti...

Last week I wrote about the trial of PC Lee Birch who tasered a naked man in a cell at Melksham police station in Wiltshire. At the end...

UKIP have got a freepost address so, if you want to send their leaflets back at their expense, it's easily done. It's been noted tha...

30 years ago this morning I was arriving home from a lifechanging experience. It was REM's first UK tour and the night before I'...

Not often you get a police officer in the dock. PC Lee Birch tasered a naked prisoner in his cell in retaliation for being flicked in the...

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...

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is ten years old today. It's also the fifth anniversary of the death of Ian Tomlinson. Let...