Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti

A Barrister by background, Shami Chakrabarti has been Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) since September 2003. She has been recently appointed a Governor of the London School of Economics and the British Film Institute and a Master of the Bench of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

Articles by Shami Chakrabarti

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These values we hold dear

  • 16 October 2008
  • 7 comments

An exhibition on Britain's fight for civil liberties is a humbling reminder of how precious those rights are

Shami Chakrabarti on the Chindamo case and human rights

  • 24 August 2007
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Shami Chakrabarti argues why David Cameron owes Mrs Lawrence an apology, and Douglas Murray director of the Centre for Social Cohesion argues why the Human Rights Act should be condemned yet again.

Human Rights

  • 11 May 2007
  • 2 comments

Shami Chakrabarti gives her view on how things have changed in the realm of civil liberties.

Diary - Shami Chakrabarti

  • 26 September 2005
  • 1 comment

I've had it with the well-meaning pragmatists. If one more of them tries to persuade me of the virtues of deporting people to Algeria, my response will not be printable. By Shami Chakrabarti

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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