
Photographers meet Home Office minister over rights ‘abuse’
The Home Office has invited Amateur Photographer magazine to help draft guidance that will aim to ensure police do not misuse anti-terrorism legislation to unfairly stop photographers.
Counter-terrorism minister Vernon Coaker made the request at a meeting in Parliament in which AP stressed the need for police to adopt a common-sense approach when dealing with photographers.
Representatives from The Royal Photographic Society and the British Institute of Professional Photography also attended yesterday’s talks, which were organised by photography rights campaigner Austin Mitchell MP.
Section 76
Last month the need for clear police guidance on photography became more pressing when the Counter-Terrorism 2008 came into force.
Section 76 of the new Act makes a photograph of a police constable a potential crime if police deem it likely to be useful to a terrorist. Continue reading this item…
As a regular listener to BBC Radio 4 in the mornings, and the Today program on occasion, it’s nice to get a glimpse behind the scenes, to see what goes into putting the show together.
Inside Today – BBC [...]
Cheese-eating Surrender Monkeys
I’m not a fan of the Daily Wail and I certainly wouldn’t snaffle an entire piece (other than to rip it to shreds), but this piece tickled me… with the final paragraph being quite apposite:
As France rejoins NATO, a humorous reminder of why we never missed them