Throughout today (4 November) the BBC is broadcasting an apology to Sir Bob Geldof and Band Aid for wrongly implying in a BBC World Service broadcast back in March that its allegations regarding the...
Three articles in today’s Observer newspaper fire welcome broadsides at the authoritarian crime and terrorism obsessives, in the cause of restoring some of our lost liberties. Sophie Radice, journalist and commentator, launches a vigorous...
A blog post entitled “Lib Dem Ministers Complicit in Torture” appeared yesterday. It concludes: I accuse Nick Clegg of complicity in torture. I am beginning to wonder whether the man has any connection to...
According to LibDem Voice, at four local by-elections last week: The Labour vote was up by 17.7% compared with May 2010 in Camden LBC, Kentish Town (the LibDem came second with almost exactly half...
I responded to an invitation to send a letter about the coalition’s spending review last week by sending this to the London Evening Standard (which, as far as I can discover, didn’t publish it):...
The human rights organisation Liberty has authorised me to publish here the text of a letter from a Liberty solicitor in reply to a message from me urging Liberty to support the campaign for...
Predictably, whenever a Tory (or even a coalition-tipsy LibDem) sees a microphone or a television camera, he or she goes onto automatic pilot about the ‘economic mess’ they claim to have inherited from Labour. ...
Last week I sent a letter about Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection to the Sunday Times. I wrote: Prison Overcrowding and Indeterminate Sentences You report that the Justice Minister is pressing the Home Secretary...
Dear Mr Miliband, Like, I’m pretty sure, thousands of other members and supporters of the Labour party, I was immensely heartened and impressed by your conference speech on Tuesday. It was a real tour...
The long leadership campaign is over and the most promising candidate from Labour’s point of view has won. The next significant events are next week’s elections by Labour MPs to the shadow cabinet and...