A useful round-up at UK Liberty of what's been happening to our freedoms over the last year.

Tory MP John Redwood has a post on his blog about the government's implementation of the EU's data retention directive. Not that Labour needed any encouragement on this front.

And I noted that the BBC website today, having started out with "UK e-mail law attack on rights'" on its main page, relegated it elsewhere, preferring to amuse the licence-payer with more important news, such as the McCanns' anger at a stupid Tory Party activist and film of a rare venomous mammal. No truth in accusations of dumbing-down or favouring Labour, then.