Demonstrators outside the Amba Hotel at Marble Arch, London, where the Undercover Policing Inquiry are holding hearings looking at the activities of the Met's Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) between 1973 and 1982, in April 2021
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MI5 ordered police officers to spy on schoolchildren as young as 14 who were deemed to be involved in “subversive activities,” an inquiry has heard.
A circular from the security service to chief constables from 1975 requesting that officers collect information about political activities in schools was disclosed by the Undercover Policing Inquiry today.
The document asks police forces to collect information on pupils “14 or over” who are “active in subversive organisations,” as well as teaching staff “who are using their position for subversive purposes.”
JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair
BEN CHACKO reports on the struggles against sexism, racism and the brutish British state that featured at Matchwomen’s Festival this year
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped