All that talk of upholding law and order during the miners strike and of the importance of the ballot over unaccountable power looks a little thin in the light of what we now know about police conduct during the strike.
Legal challenges to DRM strike at the heart of this issue: is it us, or distant, unaccountable corporations that control not only our media, but the software in our phones, our cars, and our fire alarms?
The campaign had promised to take on unaccountable interest and fight for the poor, he said, but "in the process the squeezed middle were themselves squeezed out of the story for why Britain needed a Labour government".
The Tory plans to repeal the HRA, together with the restricted access to our courts already brought about by the restriction on judicial review introduced by Gove's predecessor, Chris Grayling, will silence the vulnerable and leave great swaths of executive action unchecked and unaccountable.
"We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for all – even if that takes a constitutional amendment," she said.
Key reforms recommended by the Bahrain independent commission of inquiry in 2012 have not been implemented, leaving the political system unrepresentative and the security forces unaccountable.
We do not make demands from governments, corporations or parliament members, which some of us see as illegitimate, unaccountable or corrupt.
As they stand, most free and open online business models rest on a grotesque inequality between what is given by the many – detailed, constantly updated personalised data – and what is taken by the few: profit, knowledge, and the indefinite and largely unaccountable possession of both.
Greens (p61): "[We will] Oppose any case for secret unaccountable mass surveillance of the type exposed by Edward Snowden.
Namely, the size and unaccountable power of the state; criminality and tax evasion among corporations; and the venality and powerlessness of official politics.
And that's why they are really dangerous, because cycling needs to progress and be embraced, but the more badly behaved and unaccountable cyclists are perceived to be, the greater the likelihood that we'll be forced into restrictive and bureaucratic measures that set the whole cause back.
