Eagle-eyed Matt, frequent and welcome contributor to these columns, has sent me this disturbing message, which needs to be read with the Los Angeles Times article mentioned in the first sentence. (The article is...
According to the BBC’s latest report, The solicitor for the Home Office worker who leaked information [Christopher Galley] says he did it because it was material that was “important for the public to know”....
A huge storm has blown up in the media and among MPs over the action of the police in arresting the Tory front-bench shadow immigration minister, Damian Green, holding him for nine hours (including...
Some observations on recent media items that have struck me as funny, outrageous or improbable, or all three [More >>>]
Derek Partridge CMG, former diplomat, writes from experience in denouncing aspects of British immigration policies and practices [More >>>]
David Davis’s principled initiative has trapped New Labour in a no-win situation, but most other Tories apparently don’t get it [More >>>]
A letter in the Sunday Times exposes the irrelevance of the viability test to the abortion debate, which should be the centre-piece of the defence of women’s right to choose [More >>>]
Even David Steel, father of the great abortion reform Act of 1967, commits himself to the fallacious and dangerous idea that abortion should be banned once the foetus becomes ‘viable’. Acceptance of this will ultimately cause abortion to be completely banned once again: it’s time to abandon it [More >>>]
A document released under FOI reveals legal advice to President G W Bush that cutting off a detainee’s nose, eyes or tongue was a legal interrogation tactic provided that there was no advance intention to maim [More >>>]
Repeal of the blasphemy law will have little or no effect. The (unnecessary) law on incitement to religious hatred is confined to *threatening* words or behaviour *intended* to incite hatred, so literature and criticism of religion as such seem safe [More >>>]