Tribune magazine’s review of the Big Brother Watch book

This month's edition of Tribune, the "independent weekly labour magazine", contains the below review of the Big Brother Watch book examining the state of civil liberties in the UK:

"Big Brother Watch is a campaign, launched by the founders of the right-wing pressure group the Taxpayers' Alliance, to protect our freedoms and fight intrusions on privacy.  As Tony Benn, an unlikely fellow traveller for the Taxpayers' Alliance, says in the foreword: "Civil liberties are the foundation of freedom and democracy depends upon our defending them vigorously.

In an increasingly dangerous and volatile world, the state seems to take a closer and closer interest in the lives of its citizens.  As powers to observe our habits and film our movements – in other words, to snoop and spy – increase, our freedoms diminish.  It is a frightening way to run a democracy.

In 27 powerful essays, a cross-section of commentators dissects the UK's surveillance culture, the nanny state giving way to the bully state, as national authorities view citizens as fodder for databases with personal details, DNA and anything else they can use to control us.  The glib phrase "free country" is no longer true, if it ever was in the fist place"

You can download the full Tribune review by clicking here.

If you would like to purchase the Big Brother Watch book for the special price of only £6.50 then please click here to visit the Amazon online book store.