Matt - it's on at the Arts Picture House in Cambridge, I think.
Listings here:
http://www.noliberties.com/cinema.htm
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since he went to cause a protest inside a convention for members of the labour party. Its slightly different and not a fair comment at all.
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Your memory is letting you down, Damien. He went to his party's conference (he'd been a member for decades) and let forth an impromptu expostulation that summed up what he (and many others) thought of a speech by Jack Straw. That's not remotely a terrorist act, yet he was ejected and detained under Section 44 powers, and a guy who asked the stewards to leave him alone was likewise ejected and smacked in the head in the course of ejection.
If you can't see why it's a problem that powers brought in to deal with terrorism are misused to stifle free speech, I really do wonder at you. It's not like there's a shortage of evidence these days.
As for 'liberals', the film features Boris Johnson, who last time I looked was a Tory. It's not a party political issue. RESPECT (at least the SWP side) dislike liberals intensely, by the way. If anyone's hijacked the word it's the US right.