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- Product code: 223433
- ISBN: 1905978030,
ISBN13: 9781905978038,
256 pages, Paperback
Published by Revolver Books on 2007
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Description of Taking Liberties since 1997 |
One of the most important books of our time, "Taking Liberties" tells the story of how New Labour and Tony Blair have systematically demolished the freedoms of the British people, and the devastating effect this has had on the rest of the world. The story is told through the eyes of the ordinary people who have suffered these injustices, from being arrested for holding up a placard outside parliament, to being tortured and abused by the US military with British complicity. Chris Atkins' "Taking Liberties" has become the most explosive film of 2007. For the reader who wants to dig a little deeper than the film, this book asks why our government is removing our fundamental freedoms while claiming to be defending them. Humorous and offbeat in tone, but solidly backed up by interviews with commentators and experts across the spectrum including Henry Porter, Andrew Gilligan, Tony Benn, Boris Johnson, Claire Short, Milan Rai, Martin Bell, Shami Chakrabarti, Rachel North, Julian Petley, Ross Anderson, Kate Allen, Philippe Sands, Michael Mansfield, Mark Thomas and many more, Taking Liberties is an urgent and timely work.
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About Chris Atkins |
Author and Director Chris Atkins is the son of a politics teacher and a theatre producer. Always instilled with a healthy disregard for authority, Chris was ejected from Oxford University for doing pretty much everything that you weren't supposed to do, and then went on to Warwick University where he started a theatre company. After producing and directing a series of hit shows he moved into film, and at the age of 25 teamed up with director Richard Jobson to produce 16 Years of Alcohol, Jobson's debut feature, which got 5 star reviews on its release and a slew of awards. Since then Chris has produced 10 feature films including two more with Richard Jobson, the first being The Purifiers (Britain's first martial arts film) during which Chris spent many happy nights pulling handbrake turns in a sports car around Milton Keynes, and the second A Woman in Winter for which he received a Scottish BAFTA nomination. When Chris discovered that one of his best friends was about to be extradited to America to face 35 years in jail, without any evidence being presented, he dug a little deeper and found an abundance of such stories - of people whose lives have been ruined by the fear and injustice perpetrated by this government. This was the start of a 2-year journey to make the book and the film of Taking Liberties.
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