Riot police raided a building in central London where StopG8 activists were meeting for an anti-G8 “Carnival Against Capitalism” rally alter today.
There have been a number of high profile police actions in the last few days across London’s transport network, and a huge increase in anti-Muslim incidents since the murder of a British solider in Woolwich.
Max Clifford, one of the UK’s leading public relations figures, has been arrested by detectives investigating “historic” sex offences.
Whilst government ministers claim that front-line policing will not be privatised, job postings from G4S and other private security firms and the redundancies in Police forces across the country tell a different story.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has apologized to Kim Dotcom after a report from the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security found that the government illegally monitored the Megaupload founder. The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) carried out surveillance on Dotcom, but did not check out his residency status, instead relying on incorrect information supplied by the police.