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An increasingly sensitive issue in Britain since New Labour came into power is civil liberty. You only have to flick through a few news channels of an evening and you will find Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, opposing some new initiative that promises to smash terrorism by putting fully operating film and sound crews in every UK residents' bedroom.

Chris Atkins is a film-maker who strongly believes the Blair years have created a climate of fear at the expense of basic human rights, and he comes to Clapham Picturehouse for a Q&A session that follows a screening his new film Taking Liberties.

Atkins states: "I want to achieve only two things in this documentary: to make people laugh, and to make them angry. Politics is never usually a subject to exact either of these responses, but Tony Blair has given us everything you could want for a jaw dropping and hilarious film.

Civil Liberties argues that the five pillars of liberty - the right to liberty, privacy, a fair trial and free speech, plus the prohibition of torture - have been systematically destroyed by New Labour. Atkins adds that he has been unashamedly populist and deliberately shocking in his tactics to shake people out of their ignorance or apathy towards what is an apolitical issue, although it stops short of becoming a simple anti-Blair polemic.

Taking Liberties Q&A with Chris Atkins; Clapham Picturehouse, Venn Street, SW4 ; Tuesday, February 26, 6.30pm, £8.50/£6.50, call or visit picturehouses.co.uk for booking.

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