Simon Jenkins in the Sunday Times (11.vi.06) exposes the government’s poisoning of our society by its risk-averse and cowardly resort to ‘safety at all costs’, springing from its fear of being blamed for any disaster rather than fear of the disaster itself [More >>>]
Articles in the Guardian of 24 May 06, by Simon Jenkins and Ronald Dworkin, comprise a crushing indictment of the failings of New Labour generally and Tony Blair in particular [More >>>]
The prime minister and Lord Chancellor, shrilly supported by David Cameron, The Times and The Sun, threaten to amend or scrap the Human Rights Act on the mistaken assumption that this would enable them to deport those whom the courts won’t currently allow them to [More >>>]
The Blair-Clarke proposals for the automatic deportation of all foreigners convicted of even quite minor offences regardless of individual circumstances, and for appeals against deportation to be permitted only after the deportation has taken place, should be strongly resisted if they surface again following the immolation of Charles Clarke [More >>>]
A comment on an earlier post asks why we can’t save money by deporting foreign nationals who commit crimes straight away instead of only at the end of their sentences. I suggest six reasons why not [More >>>]
The home secretary uses ‘responsibility’ in two opposite senses in his struggle to keep his job [More >>>]
It’s tempting to speculate that the weird ambiguity on faith schools in the Guardian’s Good Friday editorial might be deliberate, despite Polly’s assault on them on an earlier page [More >>>]
The dangers of widespread deaths in the UK from bird flu caught from birds are limited, but those from a human-to-human flu pandemic all too real. Department of Health information and advance planning are impressive and thorough [More >>>]
Ministers claim to be honouring their promise that ID cards would initially be voluntary by linking inclusion in the ID database to passports and claiming that passports are voluntary. It’s true! [More >>>]
In exchange for accepting a mainly elected House of Lords, Tony Blair wants to impose fresh limits on its already limited powers: curing one disease and infecting the system with another [More >>>]