Civil liberties arguments are not so much wrong just made for a different age. Tony Blair, Prime Minister By 2005 Blair had used fear of terrorism, crime and anti-social behaviour at home to justify tight state controls and limit civil liberties. The UK soon had more CCTV cameras on the public street than any other country in the West. Police were encouraged to get our DNA by any means. The labour governments passed more laws, created more 'crimes', than any others in British history. RIPA allowed huge numbers of minor civil servants to spy on our lives. State data bases recorded all aspects...

British populist politicians have alway distinguished between the 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor and set one group against the other.Often 'the decent hard working majority' is set against both groups.Poverty is also often seen in terms of fecklessness and moral degeneracy rather than economic fluctuations and lack of skills in the poorest groups.This has been done with several motives in mind.Some populist politicians have seen a way to impose their 'model' of how society should be controlled by the state.Some have denigrated the 'undeserving' to justify cuts in welfare.We look at the...

These are the tales told by and to the regulars of the Green Man Inn in the English village of Asirby: the Village of the Gods to the Vikings who settled the Wirral.But long before the Vikings the 'Others' came and carved the Dragon Paths across the land allowing humankind access to other partitions of the Multiverse.Now the Old Powers are waking once more and gateways are opening.The Society for Unexplained Phenomena find themselves busy as unusual visitors arrive at the Green Man compelled to tell their weird stories of other times and places: mad scientists, witches, unfriendly time...