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Our civil rights took a pummelling yesterday after Britain’s highest court upheld 90-year-old peace campaigner John Catt’s place on a “domestic extremism” database.
War veteran Mr Catt vowed to fight the Supreme Court verdict, saying he had “no option” but to appeal with the European Court of Human Rights.
Four judges overruled a Court of Appeal decision made last year stating that maintaining the campaigner’s details on the National Domestic Extremism Database was an intrusion on Mr Catt’s private life.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM