Whistle-blowers are worth their weight in gold, though governments certainly don’t think so. Some of the most important things we’ve learnt about the nature of the societies we live in have come exclusively from whistle-blowers, without whose help the democratic holding of governments to account in critical areas of policy would have been impossible. The […]
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Whistleblowers do more to hold governments to account than parliaments
Feb 26th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.
Snowden fugitive saga distracts attention from real unanswered issues
Jul 1st, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Of course the issue in mass surveillance is the balance between intrusiveness and the destruction of privacy on the one hand and the overriding need to protect a country from real and serious threats to its security. After both Hague and Obama initially gave po-faced defences of the spies as subject to all necessary supervision, […]
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Who will spy on the spies, regulate the regulators and police the police?
Jun 25th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.The last few weeks have thrown up example after example how those with power have run rings round those who are supposed to call them to account. Yesterday we learnt that the police, shortly after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, tried to ‘smear’ his family, his friend who witnessed the murder, and campaigners protesting at […]
