| Description | Press coverage of the story that police were gathering personal details of activisits who attended political meetings and protests, including the creation of 'spotter cards' issued to surveillance police to help identify individual. The folder includes a copy of The Guardian with this story as its front page item ('Police in £9m scheme to log 'domestic extremists'', The Guardian, 26 October 2009), an article by Mark Thomas ('Doth I Protest Too Much?', The Guardian, 26 October 2009), and readers letters from the following day (The Guardian, 27 October 2009). |