Introducing a brand new book brought you by that protector of liberty and defender of privacy, Alex Deane (with a helping hand from Biteback too.)
Big Brother is watching us.
We now live in a state that takes a disturbingly close interest in our everyday lives. The government enjoys an array of powers over individual freedoms unprecedented in a democratic nation and inconceivable to our forebears.
Britain has the largest DNA database per capita in the world, more CCTV cameras than any other country, an Intercept Modernisation Programme to record details of everyone’s phone calls and emails, Stop-and-Search powers under the Terrorism Act and even data chips in bins to monitor our rubbish.
Big Brother Watch charts the encroachment of a surveillance culture and the erosion of civil liberties in the UK. The aim of its expert contributors is to highlight the increasingly illiberal nature of life in modern Britain, and the terrible consequences this could have for us all.
Contributors include: Josie Appleton // Tony Benn // Luca Bolognini // Stephen Booth // Simon Davies // David Davis // Alex Deane // Terri Dowty // Damian Green // David Green // Daniel Hamilton // Michael Harris // Guy Herbert // Francis Hoar // Martin Howe // Julian Huppert // Philip Johnston // Dominique Lazanski // Mark Littlewood // Leo Mckinstry // Stefano Mele Brian Monteith // Jesse Norman // Pietro Paganini // Dominic Raab // Simon Richards // Jason Smith // Harry Snook // Toby Stevens.
Formerly David Cameron's Chief of Staff, Alex Deane is the Director of Big Brother Watch, a campaign from the founders of the TaxPayers’ Alliance who brought you (with another little leg-up from Biteback) How to Cut Public Spending.
Get your copy of Big Brother Watch: The state of civil liberties in Britain for just £9.99 now.