Tony Blair's government spent a decade rewriting the terms of British civil liberties, and this film tracks six of them: the right to protest, free speech, privacy, protection from detention without charge, the presumption of innocence, and the ban on torture. It builds its case through specific cases rather than argument alone. Two teenage sisters are detained for 36 hours after a peaceful protest. An RAF veteran is arrested for wearing a T-shirt mocking Bush and Blair. An innocent man is shot during a police raid on his home. Another man spends two years under house arrest after a court has already found him not guilty. The film sets these accounts against footage of the New Labour years and interviews making the case that anti-terror laws and a media climate of fear let these powers expand with little resistance. It treats each incident as evidence of a pattern: rights fought for over centuries eroded inside one government's term in office.