This stupidity has to stop

There is an astonishing story over on the Telegraph's website and commented upon by Henry Porter about a student arrested for chalking a protest on a pavement. Apart from querying whether the police have lost all sense of proportion, the greatest irony is that the student was writing a protest about the loss of liberty!

Stella Rimington

It really is something when the former head of the Security Services comes forwards and says that the UK is moving into a police state.

She said that the government is using people's fear of terrorism to damage civil liberties.

I suppose that Jackboot Smith will come up with some nonsense but I fear that Dame Stella is right.