Big Brother Watch

Those of my readers who are concerned about the ever-advancing power of the state and its agencies (and there are, I can assure you, quite a few) could do worse than bookmark the Big Brother Watch website. Big Brother Watch’s mission statement is as follows: Big Brother Watch fights injustice and campaigns to protect our civil liberties and personal freedoms. The British state has accumulated unprecedented power and the instinct of politicians and bureaucrats is to expand their power base even further into areas unknown in peace time. Big Brother Watch campaigns to re-establish the balance of power between the state and individuals and families. We look for the sly, slow seizure of control by the state – of power, of information and of our lives. We advocate the return of our liberties and freedoms and look to ordinary people to join our cause.  Regular readers will know that ...