Flashback: 1 May 2007: Operation Achilles – SHAC under attack
On this day exactly 10 years ago, a massive police operation codenamed Operation Achilles was launched at dawn against campaigners trying to close down Huntingdon […]
Undercover police
AR prisoner Debbie Vincent due for release next month
Infiltration of political and protest groups is sometimes spoken about as an historical phenomenon. The Pitchford Inquiry covers spycops from 1968 to 2010 but that […]
ARspycatcher blog launched
Not content with one blog, I have just set up another: ARspycatcher. I started this group four years ago while investigating undercover police in animal […]
Matt Rayner and me protesting against Boots: the story behind the photo
Photos of me from the nineties, especially on protests such as this, are as rare as hen’s teeth. Taken 24 years ago on World Lab […]
1993: the year the Grand National was sabotaged – with help from Special Branch
Yesterday about 100 people demonstrated near the entrance of the Grand National against the cruelty of horse racing. Good though this turnout was – and not […]
Flashback: 30 July 1995 – police spy dresses up at pagan garden party
Exactly 20 years ago, I held an all day party in the back garden of my flat. Part of it was devoted to the play […]
Are we all “domestic extremists” now?
If you’re reading this then the chances are you could be a “domestic extremist”? Do you even know what that means? Don’t worry since not many […]
30 January: Islington Against Police Spies “Sack Bob Lambert” demo
Islington Against Police Spies (IAPS) was set up late last year following a meeting at London Metropolitan University. This is where disgraced ex-police spy Bob […]
Activist Eric McDavid released from prison in the USA
Some rare good news today as activist Eric McDavid was released from prison after serving nine years of a near 20 year sentence. He went free […]
Sunday 16 November: Defend the Right to Protest Conference
WE DO NOT CONSENT: Defend the Right to Protest is a major conference taking place on Sunday 16 November at SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H […]
Maggie and Big Mac – a match made in McHeaven
We all know there’s an obesity epidemic: you can hardly read a newspaper or turn on the tv without being told some mid numbing statistic such […]
Who to blame for the decline in the AR movement
When the scandal of police spies broke in 2011 the Met was obliged to be seen doing something and set up Operation Herne. Three years […]