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  • January 21, 2009
    Re-investing democracy with hope

    There is something genuine about Barack Obama's desire to bring governance and people closer together, says Simon Barrow. This is an approach we need to emulate in Britain, where cynicism is eroding social hope.

  • December 18, 2008
    Can we save the planet yet keep our freedoms?

    Possibly the crucial world issue now and in the coming decades is global warming and environmental catastrophe.

  • September 5, 2008
    Online poll shows opposition to mental health DNA policy

    Black church leaders have joined health experts in welcoming findings from a new opinion poll showing widespread public opposition to adding the DNA of innocent mental health patients to the National Criminal DNA database.

  • September 4, 2008
    Protesters face police raids at the Republican Convention

    US police have staged preemptive armed raids targeting protesters and alternative media around the Republican National Convention - including thousands of people demonstrating about war world poverty throughout the week.

  • June 11, 2008
    Not just the 'usual suspects'

    It's not just the civil liberties lobby that thinks Gordon Brown is wrong in wanting a drastic extension to detention without trial in Britain.

  • June 11, 2008
    42 day detention without trial is wrong

    Ekklesia's comment section is down so this is our response to the crucial parliamentary vote on 42 day detention without trial.

  • November 2, 2007
    Police accountability and transparency is the issue

    The calls for Sir Ian Blair's resignation as chief of the Metropolitan police may be a distraction from the real issues, says Simon Barrow, reflecting on the 2005 Stockwell terror shooting tragedy.

  • June 9, 2007
    Liberty reacts with disbelief to police claims about UK torture flights

    Civil rights group Liberty is furious that the Association of Chief Police Officers appears to have undermined a Council of Europe statement on Britain's involvement in CIA 'torture flights'. It wants a proper investigation.

  • December 13, 2006
    Right to protest legally upheld for UK anti-war demonstrators

    Peace and civil liberties campaigners have welcomed a legal victory by a group of UK anti-war demonstrators who have established that their rights to public protest were violated when police stopped them from attending a non-violent action against the Iraq war at an airbase.