Those who respect pregnant women’s freedom to do as they choose with their own bodies should beware of accepting the criterion of ‘viability’ in deciding the point at which abortion is banned: that way lies a return to a ban on *all* abortion, and perhaps on contraception too [More >>>]
A government threat to stop an erring public servant’s pension might prove to be bluff, but few of us could afford to risk challenging it [More >>>]
The Daily Telegraph (10/10/07) reports the FCO gag on retired diplomats. Read here my comment, of which a lightly edited version is on the Telegraph website [More >>>]
A retired former British high commissioner has revealed that the Foreign Office is now preventing its diplomats from publicly expressing personal political views after retirement, a gag for life, in apparent breach of the Human Rights Act and Convention [More >>>]
Gordon Brown and Jack Straw impose a pay cut on prison officers (“pay discipline”) while vastly increasing their work burden, and refusing to act to curb the massive increases in income and wealth that city financiers are awarding themselves: a disgusting mess [More >>>]
Some comments on a few good and rather more less good things collected recently from the print media [More >>>]
Indeterminate sentences are an abominable breach of natural justice, and not just because of the Kafkaesque situation in which prisoners who have served their tariffs can’t be released because the prison courses which are a condition of release aren’t made available to them [More >>>]
Stephen Grey’s latest revelations of extraordinary rendition by US intelligence are recounted in a major UK TV programme. How can such criminal misdeeds continue in the US, of all countries? [More >>>]
Go and see an admirable chronicle of the theft of our civil liberties by the Blairistas, in a film released on 8 June, ‘Taking Liberties’ — and follow its progress on its blog [More >>>]
With only a month to go before they step down, Blair and Reid have launched proposals for yet more draconian police powers in yet another anti-terror law, while Blair blames the judges, the opposition and ‘society’ for limiting his scope for further eroding our civil liberties [More >>>]