The government’s bid for power to detain indefinitely people with untreatable severe personality disorders is the fourth manifestation of an inexhaustible appetite for detention without charge or trial, contrary to human rights obligations and centuries of tradition [More >>>>]
Democracy Now, the American TV and radio program for civil liberties and war-and-peace issues, broadcast from London last week. I took part in a panel discussion on civil liberties in the UK (More >>>)
It’s hardly credible that in this enlightened age people with leftish views should think it immoral and unsocialist to arrange to pay no more in tax than legally necessary (More>>>)
An open e-mail to Daniel Finkelstein for being the first to air nationally the scandal of a Bill empowering ministers to make new laws without troubling parliament [more >>>]
Ruth Kelly might have won more respect and saved herself much unnecessary (and objectionable) work if she had been prepared to defend a fair and defensible system against ignorant and hysterical attack [More >>>]
The hysterical witch-hunt over rabid child abusers being cleared in their thousands by the Education Secretary to infest our schools (according to the media) should be treated with scepticism [More >>>]
Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, commented courteously and informatively on my Ephems entry about his position on the use of torture-tainted information and his action in publishing classified documents. Here is my response to his comment [More >>>]
Craig Murray’s campaign against the use or even acceptance of information suspected to have been got by torture, not only as evidence in court, but even for further investigation by the security service, is worthy but unsustainable [More >>>]
My letter in today’s Guardian seeks to expose the misleading and perverse character of the home secretary’s reaction to the law lords’ ban on torture-tainted evidence [More >>>]
Devising unlikely scenarios and finicky definitions to justify torture is a shameful and unacceptable activity [More >>>]