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...
Dave Hill writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on the successful election of Lutfur Rahman as Mayor of Tower Hamlets. Rahman, who has been the target of a virulent campaign against his candidacy, won the election last Thursday on an independent ticket. Hill, surveying the allegations...
There was a curious piece of news in the Evening Standard yesterday (hat tip: Islamophobia Watch) on Baroness Warsi being “forced” to renege on a commitment to present a counter argument to the motion ‘This House believes France is right to ban the face veil’, at the famed Doha Debates...
Sir John Sawers (pictured), head of security agency MI6, gave an unprecedented public speech by a serving chief at the Society of Editors yesterday. Addressing allegations of UK agents’ complicity in torture Sir John said: “If we know or believe action by us will lead to torture taking...
The annual Home Office bulletin on the use of anti-terror powers shows that of the 101,248 searches carried out under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act, 504 people were arrested for any offence, not one of them for terrorism-related offences. The Guardian today reports on the release of the HO...
The Independent today reports on the release of figures from the Office of National Statistics on the most popular baby names in England and Wales in 2009. The paper headlines the article ‘Oliver, meet Olivia’, reflecting the most popular names in the two categories. While the Daily...
