On March 26th 138 UKuncut activists were charged with aggravated tresspass after staging an entirely peaceful protest in Fortnum & Mason. At the very least this has huge significance for the future of peaceful direct action and at it's worst is political policing. UKuncut has played a prominent role in bringing corporate tax avoidance into mainstream political debate and has embarressed the government as well as the powerful corporations they've targeted. The arrest of UKuncut members is an attempt to associate them with the "violence" that occured and to vilify the group in the minds of the general public, and in so doing destroy the movement. These were, as all UKuncut actions have been, entirely peaceful. Please, please give this campaign your support.

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRs) are hundreds of times safer than the Pressurised Water Reactors (PWRs) planned for the UK's new-build. LFTRs operate at atmospheric pressure; PWRs operate at 155 times that and have this huge pressure 'driver' to expel radioactivity into the environment. LFTRs are half the price of PWRs and require only one-thousandth of the ore to be mined for the same energy output and thorium will be available for hundreds of thousands of years. High quality waste heat can be used for district heating or desalinating water. If only used for process heat, hydrogen can be made, to produce carbon-neutral fuels for transport and ammonia as feedstock for nitrate fertilisers. Several UK companies can produce this (glorified) atmospheric-pressure, hot-salt chemical plant. Prototype in 5 years - production line manufacture at 1 per day in 10 years - all coal fired power stations replaced in 2 years. Wordwide market for tens of thousands of these modular units. UK manufacturing jobs, growth and prosperity not seen in 3 generations. At least half of the money Government plans to spend on inconsequential renewables will be saved, to spend elsewhere. Make the UK Government spend our taxes in this most cost-effective way.

It's three months until the UK's first ever referendum on electoral reform. We will finally get the chance to vote to take back some of the power that political parties have stolen from us. 38 Degrees members should be encouraged to get out and help with the campaign for a Yes vote.
Switching to the Alternative Vote system, would make MPs more accountable, requiring that they have a genuine majority to be elected. It would give everyone an equal say, as the option to specify an order of preference will mean your vote will always be counted. And it will significantly reduce the number of MPs with jobs for life, by bringing hundreds more safe seats into play.

Nick Clegg has betrayed nearly every core principle of the Liberal Democrat 2010 manifesto in exchange for a government role and influence within the Coalition. The only way for the Lib Dems to remain a viable political party is to pass a vote of ‘no confidence’ in Nick Clegg and vote for a new leader who will, at most, support Cameron on a supply and demand basis. Currently polling at 10% and facing disproportionate losses from the Tory plans to count the number of registered voters, rather than the number of constituents, the Lib Dems must prove that they believe in their core principles and oppose a Coalition that has been disastrous for both the party and the electorate. Here is a list of Clegg’s betrayals:

• After signing a pledge to oppose tuition fees, he voted in favour of tripling them, and then had the audacity to claim that the new arrangement is somehow fairer.
• Passed a bill that will pave the way to the privatization of the NHS by allowing competition to dominate the system.
• Agreed to support the weakening of representative democracy and the imposition of a bias towards the Conservatives through the redrawn reduction in MPs/boundaries in exchange for a vote on AV that was made unwinnable due to his own lack of principles and the damage he has done to the public’s faith in coalitions. This will not only make it virtually impossible to dislodge the Conservatives, but will also savage the party’s chances at future elections. It is time for those who hope that the political climate will improve for the Lib Dems by 2015 to think again.
• Signing up to a mass cuts agenda despite advocating more of a tax and spend approach in the 2010 manifesto.
• The weakening of support for a progressive taxation system as the target of taking people who earn up to £10,000 out of taxation altogether looks increasingly unlikely as their partners in the Coalition favour the abolition of the 50p tax band.
• Despite the urgent need for banking reform, this has been kicked into the long grass and will not be in place should another financial crisis strike during the next eight years.
• Claiming to be in government to tackle the deficit but doing nothing to make this happen, with borrowing up, growth stagnating and the richest being protected from most of the pain. Instead, he is following the Conservative ideology of shrinking the state and allowing the private sector to profiteer from public services.
• Being part of a government that is actively connecting benefits with criminality in an attempt to demonize the poor as a 'feral underclass'.
• Supporting the Murdoch buyout of BSkyB through his silence on the issue until the revelations about the NoTW hacking into Milly Dowler's phone made it politically toxic.
• Despite making civil liberties and the right to protest central planks of the Lib Dem attacks on the New Labour government, has not spoken out against the use of kettling during the student protests and disproportionate sentencing in response to the 2011 riots. Furthermore, he has yet to oppose Cameron's plans to allow cameras in to court to film sentencing, which will serve to compound the existing difficulties in those with a criminal record finding employment.

None of the above has to happen- the Lib Dems could allow the Conservatives to form a minority government and only vote through policies that they felt were in the national interest. We need to connect with grass roots Lib Dem activists and lobby MPs and Lords to pass a vote of ‘no confidence’ in Nick Clegg as soon as possible, before he damages the country and his party any further.

The coalition government has recently approved a Billion pound scheme by the intelligence agencies to store details of every online conversation.

The daunting 'Interception Modernisation Programme' (IMP) means internet service providers (ISPs) will be forced to install interception equipment in their networks to store sensitive details of who contacts whom, when, where and how via services such as Skype, Facebook, webmails such as Hotmail, and online games.

It is likely that Deep Packet Inspection technology will be configured by GCHQ to capture such data from passing traffic and store it in archives run by communications providers. The same technology will also allow for the content of communications to be intercepted, although this requires a warrant from the Home Secretary Theresa May.

After the election the coalition said it would "end the storage of internet and e-mail records without good reason". But the Strategic Defence and Security Review shows that Ministers believe the program to be necessary in the intervention of possible threats.

"We will introduce a programme to preserve the ability of the security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies to obtain communication data and to intercept communications within the appropriate legal framework," the Strategic Defence and Security Review says.

"This programme is required to keep up with changing technology and to maintain capabilities that are vital to the work these agencies do to protect the public."

"We will legislate to put in place the necessary regulations and safeguards to ensure that our response to this technology challenge is compatible with the government’s approach to information storage and civil liberties."

We want the Coalition to keep to their principles and we want to retain our Human Rights manifested in personal privacy which this program clearly violates.