{youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eYbanlaAdY} Viewers can watch David Toube of Harry’s Place making an utter fool of himself, insolently disrupting a meeting by Cage Prisoners at the launch of their report on ‘Detention without Charge in the UK’, at Freshfields law firm in...
Human rights group Liberty has won a landmark case against the government in challenging the arbitrary and widespread use of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act, which allows for ‘stop and search’ of private citizens by the police acting on ‘a hunch’. Judges at the European Court of Human...
Jonathan Freedland (pictured) in the Guardian today reflects on Alastair Campbell’s testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday and the enduring scars the Iraq war has afflicted on the body politic. Freedland writes: ‘…the Iraq episode continues to cast a long shadow over our public life....
The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph both draw attention to early findings from the British Social Attitudes Survey, which is to be published in full later this month. According to the papers: 52 per cent think of people interviewed think Britain is deeply divided along religious lines 55 per...
The Home Secretary Alan Johnson has today announced that the government is to move to proscribe Islam4UK and its parent organisation Al Muhajiroun, and any other successor group the organisation mutates into, under counter-terrorism laws. The BBC reports that the Home Secretary as saying:...
Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Phillips of Sudbury (pictured), writes to The Guardian (Guardian Letters, Saturday 9th January) on the conflicting messages in Government policy pertaining to the Middle East and security. Lord Phillips writes: ‘The start of the new year brought reports of the...
The BBC Panorama programme on Monday 11th January, ‘A Walk in the Park‘ will look at Jerusalem and the disputes arising from illegal Israeli building in the occupied eastern part of the city, the proposed future capital of a Palestinian state. ‘Jane Corbin (pictured) walks...
No surprise that Damian Thompson, after proposing to donate small sums to a Jewish charity every time an anti-semitic comment is posted to his blog, should waste no time in posting a blog that incites fear and loathing of Muslims. Thompson, picking up on the article written for the Times...
The Government’s Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) has issued a factsheet concerning the skirmishes between the Viva Palestina convoy, carrying aid and equipment to the beleaguered people of Gaza, and the Egyptian police patrolling Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip. The...
Seumas Milne (pictured) in his Guardian column today superbly dissects the multiple and enduring catastrophes brought about by the persistent failure of the UK and US governments to understand that standing full square behind despots and dictators in the Middle East is a ‘recipe for a war on...
