Undercover officer admits spying on Starmer's confidential legal advice during McLibel case

AN UNDERCOVER police officer admitted spying on Sir Keir Starmer while he was a barrister for two environmental campaigners fighting the McLibel ca

Spycops have long targeted the British left

TONY COLLINS looks at the evidence he has uncovered in his research on our early labour movement of deep and hostile police infiltration that ruined lives in the last century

Free speech is being compromised by police spying

TIM DAWSON looks at how obsessive police surveillance of journalists undermines the very essence of democracy

Home Office accused of sabotaging process as Spycops inquiry resumes

THE next stage of the public inquiry into the shocking actions of undercover officers who infiltrated hundreds of left-wing groups resumed today.

An infringement on democracy and civil liberties

LINDSEY GERMAN argues that the interim report on undercover policing shows the Metropolitan Police is not fit for purpose

Spycop unit should have been shut down, inquiry finds

Special Branch spied on GLC’s ‘cop watch’ initiative

In an exclusive investigation, BETHANY RIELLY looks at how the state targeted leading politicians and campaigning groups — labelling many well-known figures 'extremists' and 'subversives' for attempting to hold the police to account

Blacklisted workers ‘vindicated’ after spycops inquiry acknowledges police snooped on trade unionists

BLACKLISTED workers say they have been vindicated by the public inquiry into undercover policing after it acknowledged this week that spycops had r

Spycops' targets urge inquiry to conclude the unit was ‘unlawful, unjustified and illegitimate’

DOZENS of people subjected to police spying have called on a public inquiry to conclude that the undercover unit that targeted them was “unlawful,

Met's ‘deeply misogynistic culture’ allowed spycops to deceive women into sexual relationships, inquiry hears

A “DEEPLY misogynistic culture” in the Metropolitan Police allowed undercover officers to deceive dozens of women into sexual relationships for alm