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Posts Tagged ‘fear’

Smash EDO protest and Proportional Policing (post G20)

May 4th, 2009

Having witnessed the Police presence in Brighton today for the “Smash EDO” protest, which led me to have to drive a 10-mile diversion to deliver my girlfriend to work, I read with interest the statement issued by the Brighton & Hove City Commander, Chief Supt Graham Bartlett, as follows: Read more…

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The Future of Air Travel – Someday, All Flights Will Be Made This Way

February 20th, 2009

I love taking my shoes off at the end of a busy day. It’s the first thing I do when visiting my friends’ houses. But through the airport security, when I’m already being made to carry my outdoor coat, having removed everything from my pockets and decanted everything including drinking water and each of my many bodily fluids (blood, urine, sweat, semen and both vitreous and aqueous humours) into 100ml bottles sealed inside a transparent ziplock bag (or even worse, to dispose of them, never to be seen again), removing my boots is really the last straw. Read more…

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Terrorism, governments and fear: the results

November 24th, 2007

Very interesting results from the survey I’ve had on my web site for a while…

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