This Saturday, October 2, I’ll be speaking at the Southwark Playhouse in London, in between the matinée and evening performances of an excellent new play by Steven Bloomer called “Boiling Frogs”. The play looks at the erosion of civil liberties in the UK, in the name of protecting us from the “war on terror”, and is being performed by The Factory, an innovative theatre troupe.
My talk will be called “Are We There Yet?”, and will assess how far down the road the UK has moved towards being a de facto police state: what do we mean by this, and what are the indicators we should watch out for?