Security services have reportedly “softened” their support for control orders according to Mark Townsend writing in the Observer. The paper yesterday reported: “In a surprise development, senior Whitehall security sources broke ranks to reveal that MI5 was ‘not wedded’ to keeping the...
Two high court judges have ordered that Phil Woolas’ election as MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth is “void” and have ordered a re-run of the General Election campaign for the constituency. The statement from Mr Justice Nigel Teare said: “In an election address entitled The Examiner,...
The newspapers today relay the sentencing of Roshonara Choudhry for the stabbing of Stephen Timms MP and the transcript of her interview, released by the police, which reveals her apparent radicalization through listening to online lectures by Anwar Al-Awlaki. But the news that dominates the...
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has today delivered a speech at the Royal United Services Institute on ‘Our response to the terrorist threat’. The Home Secretary spoke on the security threats facing the UK, its wider trend and home grown terrorism. She spoke on how the...
Andrew Gilligan continues to beat his drum on the unsuitability of Lutfur Rahman for the post of Mayor of Tower Hamlets drawing this time on reports that Roshonara Choudhry, the woman found guilty of the attempted murder of Stephen Timms MP yesterday, was ‘self-radicalised’ listening to...
The Local Government Association, along with the Conservative Councilors Association and the Conservative Women’s Organisation, is holding an event to encourage and assist individuals interested in standing in local council elections and playing a more active role in public life. The...
Several papers reported today that Roshonara Choudhry, who stabbed East Ham MP, Stephen Timms, in May this year, did so because he had voted to invade Iraq. From The Guardian, “When the interviewing officer, Detective Inspector Simon Dobinson, asked why, she replied: ‘Because he wanted to...
The debate sparked at the weekend on disputations within the coalition on the continuation of the control orders policy continues with comment pieces in the Evening Standard yesterday, by Matthew D’Ancona, and in the Daily Telegraph and The Independent today by Philip Johnston and Steve...
Education secretary, Michael Gove, is reported to have pledged to give head teachers the power to dismiss teachers who are members of the BNP “or other groups which have an ‘extremist tenor’.” From the Guardian: “The pledge by the education secretary, Michael Gove, follows the case...
The coalition government is locked in a battle within its own ranks and with the security establishment over the future of control orders and the 28-day detention without trial counter terrorism measures. The Observer reported that a letter from Liberal Democrats to the PM, David Cameron, warned...
