Henry Porter: To accuse those who fear New Labour's erosion of our liberties of being covert Conservatives is nonsense

Henry Porter: Yet David Aaronovitch maintains that the real threat to our society comes not from the government but its critics

Michael Cross: It's worth looking at the arguments of David Varney if we're to understand where the debate should go from here

Henry Porter: Hidden by the extraordinary spirit of the Convention On Modern Liberty was a row about the Human Rights Act, which I want to bring out into the open