A mix of ideological zeal and incompetence means that over half of the children taking the recent SATS papers failed to reach the ‘age expected’ norm in at least one of the tests. Continue reading “Government meddling has labelled a generation of children as failures”
Category: Civil liberties
Government, the police and intelligence services are too easily given sweeping powers that they too often abuse
Jenny works with campaigners to defend our civil liberties
Read on for her latest posts on this topic
Undercover police guidance published
The publication of the new rule book on undercover policing is welcome, but it fails to spell out clear criteria concerning whether an operation is needed in the first place. Continue reading “Undercover police guidance published”
Queen’s speech: Let’s find solutions to the problems in prisons, not add to them
Further steps towards privatisation of the prison system will make an already bad situation even worse. Privatisation of the prison system won’t solve the problem of overcrowding, a lack of money and staffing shortages. But the solution is simple. We must send fewer people to jail. Continue reading “Queen’s speech: Let’s find solutions to the problems in prisons, not add to them”
Jenny speaks at spycops conference
The centre for crime and justice held a two day conference on subversion, sabotage and spying at Southbank university over the weekend.
Jenny attends Public Inquiry into undercover policing
The two-day preliminary hearing was to determine if the inquiry will be open and transparent or whether it will be a secret process, which would largely exclude both the public and non-state ‘core participants’. Jenny has applied for core participant status.
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Peers defeat government in vote on child refugees
Jenny joined 305 other peers to defeat the government in the House of Lords: they voted to accept 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees into the UK from Europe.
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Senior Green Party figures issue public statement regarding child refugees in Calais
The smokescreen of Cameron’s statements about taking in vulnerable children from countries neighbouring Syria does nothing to hide the glaring reality that the many children who have a legal right to enjoy sanctuary in the UK are being left in Calais. The inhumane bulldozing of the ‘Jungle camp’ makes the plight of these children ever more desperate.
The Jungle in February, Jenny’s blog
A visit to the ‘unrecognised’ refugee camp near Calais
“There is snow on the ground and it’s sleeting. I have arrived again in Calais to visit the unofficial refugee camp called The Jungle. I visited it first in late October last year. Continue reading “The Jungle in February, Jenny’s blog”
Jenny returns to the Jungle
On Thursday 18 February Jenny will again visit The Jungle, Calais.
She said: ‘What is happening at the Jungle, where thousands of people have been effectively abandoned by governments and are being helped to stay alive only by the selfless actions of volunteers, would be an unacceptable outrage anywhere. That it is happening on the doorstep of the UK – the world’s fifth-wealthiest state – and France, the sixth richest, makes it a scandal which should engage us all.’
Officer claims Met improperly deleted Jenny’s domestic extremist files
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A police officer working for a secretive Scotland Yard intelligence unit that monitors thousands of political campaigners has alleged that police improperly destroyed …
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Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 