You might be forgiven for taking some time to understand just what Nick Cohen‘s rant in an Observer comment piece on Sunday was getting at initially but it becomes clear on further reading that the crux of his argument is that British academics are supposedly too afraid to challenge...
The Guardian reports that Sir Paul Stephenson, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, has “privately lobbied the home secretary to make it harder for people to take legal action against his force.” His recommendations include: “Making it harder for people to sue the police for...
“Justice dies when the law is co-opted for political purposes” This is just one of many sobering thoughts in yesterday’s piece by Stuart Jeffries, who talks to Gareth Peirce. Peirce “for over 30 years… has worked in an area where the most vulnerable are often facing the full might of...
ENGAGE welcomed the party manifestos of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties with their assertion that “security measures must be proportional and consistent with liberal democratic values and the rule of law”, and “the best way to combat terrorism is to prosecute...
Ten people were charged with a mix of public order offences, suspicion of assaulting a police officer, possessing an offensive weapon and possessing a controlled substance, following a protest in Leicester by extremist right-wing group, the English Defence League (EDL). The static protest was...
David Cameron’s speech delivered his speech to the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday. Among other things in the opening, he (predictably) played up the role of the Liberal Democrats’ role in the coalition government and talked of voting reform. He then spent a short while discussing...
The Guardian has published a letter calling on new Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, to stand by his reported stance of a foreign policy built on “values, not just alliances” and distance himself from the Jewish National Fund. The Jewish National Fund, which was instrumental in the ethnic...
Sir William Gage, who is leading the public inquiry in to the death of Baha Mousa and other Iraqi detainees at the hands of British troops, today reprimanded army intelligence chiefs for what he called “lamentable” delays in disclosing crucial information to the inquiry. The Guardian...
Mehdi Hasan’s interview with Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, which was published in the New Statesman yesterday, offered some very interesting views and points of consideration for the Muslim community. Baroness Warsi, who is the Conservative Party Chairman and the first Muslim woman in the Cabinet,...
The Evening Standard reports that London’s deputy mayor, Kit Malthouse, has called for a public debate on the value of terror alerts, saying, “such alerts, and Britain’s official threat level warning, risked handing victory to the terrorists by spreading fear and confusion among the...
