The Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act includes a swathe of unprecedentedly open-ended powers, which significantly undermine rights in public spaces. The Manifesto Club is focusing on ‘Public Spaces Protection Orders’ (PSPOs), which give local authorities the power to ban any activity…
From 20 October, Public Spaces Protection Orders will provide local authorities with unprecedentedly wide-ranging powers to control activities in public spaces. The new orders – contained in the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 – allow local authorities to ban or…
Over the past 10 years, public spaces have become increasingly policed by unaccountable officials bearing open-ended powers. On-the-spot fines mean that police and other officials can punish people for a series of offences ‘on-the-spot’, without legal checks and balances. Criminal offences that…
The Home Office introduced new restrictions on international artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, temporary exhibitions, concerts or artists’ residencies. Visitors now have to submit to a series of arduous and expensive proceedures to get their visa, and then more…
Reports from the frontline of social life, challenging booze bans, photo bans, vetting – and other ways in which the state regulates everyday life on the streets, in workplaces and in our private lives. PAVEMENT INJUSTICE: THE RISE OF ON-THE-SPOT FINES On-the-spot…
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We use print-on-demand technology to produce books on contemporary freedom issues, with sharp content and original looks (design by Tom Mower). In an age where book publishing is becoming more monopolised, this is cottage-industry publishing by 21st-century freedom fighters. If you are…
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Josie Appleton is quoted in the news story CRB checks ‘not a failsafe’ for children, Big Issue in the North, 18-28 December 2008 The Manifesto Club’s EU Phrasebook is cited in Why Europe’s gift-wrapped elite just won’t take no for an answer, by Steven King, Irish Examiner, 10 December 2008 The Manifesto Club’s Brussels meeting is mentioned in Le Soir, 10 December 2008, by speaker Christopher Bickerton The Manifesto Club’s Brussels meeting was discussed on the blogs Nose Monkey’s EUtopia, the Telegraph, and the MEP Roger Helmer James Panton debated vetting with the chief of the Independent Safeguarding Authority on CityTalk FM…
How to fight for freedom in everyday life. Discuss campaigning methods; share experience with other activists. Report freedom issues we should be campaigning on to our FreedomHotline. Contact the Freedom Hotline Contact us to report a new freedom issue, at freedomhotline@manifestoclub.com. We…
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has claimed the banning of alcohol on the London Tube as one of the great successes of his first 100 days in office. But it isn’t just Boris – and it isn’t just London. There has been…
The Manifesto Club is coordinated by a Board of Directors, which meets regularly to assess and guide the organisation’s work. Josie Appleton is founding director of the Manifesto Club. She oversees the club’s campaigns and publications, and coordinates the supporters’ programme and…