Liberty

Human rights campaign over ban on soup runs comes to Westminster’s door.

Photo / Pryere After being unceremoniously evicted from Parliament Square this week, some Democracy Village protesters are showing a marked reluctance to leave by setting up DV MKII on the pavement around the original campsite. MPs, of course, are positively foaming at the mouth over …

Photo by Wurz The controversial use of anti-terror legislation to stop and search individuals is to be halted, the home secretary announced yesterday in a statement to the Commons. Theresa May promised an urgent review of counter-terrorism measures last month when it was revealed that …

News has emerged of a baby boy starved to death in North London. Alistair ain’t no Darling for

The grand old Wendy house of Regent Street, Liberty, may be up for sale after making over £7 million losses in the past year and a half. Business Week reports that the attractive department store has been approached by potential buyers, with an estimated asking …

May 18th marked the launch of “A Taste for Life“, a photography exhibition held on the top floor at Liberty department store. The show features photography from renowned Magnum photographers such as Stuart Franklin, Eve Arnold and Peter Marlow (Dennis Stock’s 1968 photograph “Venice Beach …

Hanger 72‘s stop and search form / from the Londonist Flickr pool You’re far more likely to be stopped and searched these days – and in a throwback to the dark recent past, far more likely to be stopped if you’re not white. Figures from …

Concerned about CCTV? ID cards? Over zealous counter terrorism legislation? The Convention on Modern Liberty could be for you. Held at the Institute of Education, Bedford Way, on 28 February, 1,000 people will gather to discuss the threat to freedom and rights by the state. …

Why this is very Midwinter Madness! The 600 hundred year old Mortlake Brewery (currently owned by Stag) is to close. Thus the whirligig of time brings in…diversions. All’s changing at Tottenham Court Road tube station. Lady, you are the cruellest she alive: Shoesmith appeals against …

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, chances are it’s a … This was our thought upon reading the news that a teenage member of Scientology-protesting group Anonymous, who goes by the name EpicNoseGuy on the Enturbulation …