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The UK Court of Appeal allows the home secretary to use information got by torture to lock people up without trial
It’s now up to the law lords to reverse this deplorable decision.
The charge against Tony Blair – and the others
Iraq: the real charge against Tony Blair — and his colleagues
On the road in Tuscany
Wonderful countryside, food and wine, fabulous churches and museums and galleries everywhere, everything just as claimed by the travel agents and guide-books.
Seeing ‘Wimbledon’ in Wimbledon
‘Wimbledon’ surely one of the worst films ever made, even by the sad standards of most recent British films
The US Presidential and Vice-Presidential Debates
I scored Senator Kerry a clear winner in the first of the presidential debates, relieved to find the President as inarticulate and generally ill-informed (not to mention petulant and irritable) as anyone could have dared to hope
A controversial view of Israel-Palestine
A discussion with a prominent and experienced middle east analyst
An Australian legal view of using information got by torture to lock people up
John Greenwell’s paper challenging the Court of Appeal