Archives for "UK Policy"
August 19, 2008 : Massive State Propaganda at the OlympicsAugust 18, 2008 : New Labour Regrets End of Military Dictatorship in Pakistan
August 10, 2008 : There Are No Good Guys, But We Must Be Most Wary of Russia
August 5, 2008 : MPs Call Government Gagging Rules Oppressive and Draconian
August 4, 2008 : Who Will Protect Us From Scotland Yard?
August 1, 2008 : Jack Straw, Mrs Straw and the Prevention of Justice in the BAE Bribes Scandal
July 30, 2008 : Law Lords Back Corruption
July 30, 2008 : Chiselling the Blindfold
June 13, 2008 : If you can't buy them - ban them
June 12, 2008 : Over there and over here
June 2, 2008 : George Bush to visit Britain on June 15th
April 17, 2008 : The London Elections and Strategic Voting
March 31, 2008 : Not a day longer
February 5, 2008 : The Bugging of Babar Ahmad
January 24, 2008 : Peter Hain
January 24, 2008 : Imprisonment
January 24, 2008 : Early draft of Iraq Dossier to be made public
January 23, 2008 : Police Demo Shock
January 10, 2008 : Civil servant who leaked rendition secrets goes free
December 15, 2007 : Consultation on the right to demonstrate
December 7, 2007 : Freedoms
December 7, 2007 : 42 Days
December 4, 2007 : Good Riddance to Andy Hayman
December 2, 2007 : Just Throw Cheques
December 2, 2007 : Sleaze
November 30, 2007 : Scare Early for Christmas
November 29, 2007 : A Chance to Fight
November 23, 2007 : Jahongir Sidikov
November 22, 2007 : A Low Point
November 20, 2007 : Britain Institutes Death Penalty
November 11, 2007 : Encouragement of Terror, and Double standards
November 7, 2007 : Ian Blair Must Go
November 5, 2007 : Frank Goebbels Gardner Strikes Again
November 2, 2007 : De Menezes and Lies
October 9, 2007 : Freedom of Speech, and Higher Education
August 2, 2007 : Met Chiefs Lie About Terrorism
August 1, 2007 : Sinister New State Powers
July 31, 2007 : Who's a Terrorist?
July 31, 2007 : Caught in a Kafkaesque System
July 29, 2007 : Duck! Here Comes More Whitewash!
July 28, 2007 : Rescuing Gladstone
July 21, 2007 : Overstretch in Iraq and Afghanistan Leaves UK Vulnerable to Attack
July 9, 2007 : Afghanistan - NATO Led Forces are Killing More Civilians Than the Taliban
July 5, 2007 : Control Orders to be Challenged in the House of Lords
July 4, 2007 : Usual Service is Resumed
July 4, 2007 : The Caring Face of New Labour
July 2, 2007 : Terror Attacks
July 1, 2007 : Not All Terrorism Fails
June 30, 2007 : Home Grown Terror
June 30, 2007 : Glasgow Airport Incident
June 30, 2007 : Lord Levy and the Porn Star
June 30, 2007 : CCTV Footage
June 29, 2007 : Bombs and the Great Wen
June 29, 2007 : London Bomb - Cui Bono?
June 29, 2007 : Lockerbie
June 28, 2007 : Worth Sending Our Troops to Die For
June 27, 2007 : Exit Tony, Enter Gordon
June 26, 2007 : Richest Man in House of Commons Joins Labour Party
June 24, 2007 : Week Round-Up
June 20, 2007 : "Sir" Salman Rushdie
June 16, 2007 : 27 June Warmonger Out!
June 13, 2007 : Transcript of Today Programme 9 June Discussion on BAe Bribes Scandal
June 13, 2007 : Blair, the Media and a Possible Extradition
June 13, 2007 : BAe Corruption and Governance in Britain (Updated)
June 9, 2007 : Comment is Free - But Not That Free (Updated)
June 7, 2007 : Not Anticipated or Imagined
June 7, 2007 : BAE Corruption
June 5, 2007 : Gordon Brown London Hustings
June 5, 2007 : New Labour Nomenklatura
June 3, 2007 : Justice Equals More Convictions
June 3, 2007 : Libertarianism
June 2, 2007 : Breaking News - Another US Terror Plot
May 29, 2007 : Big Brother Is Watching Me
May 28, 2007 : The End of Liberty
May 27, 2007 : Russia, Energy Security and Alternative Energy
May 25, 2007 : The Guardian Swells the Tide of Illiberalism
May 24, 2007 : More Right Wing Guardian Propaganda
May 11, 2007 : IPCC clear the killers of Jean Charles de Menezes
May 9, 2007 : The time is near
May 4, 2007 : Election Results
May 4, 2007 : Labour Punched on the Nose
May 2, 2007 : Clive Ponting and the Whistle Blowers
May 2, 2007 : The Complexity of Truth
April 30, 2007 : The Missing Links: MI5 acts to limit damage over 7/7 failure
April 27, 2007 : Terror Leeks
April 27, 2007 : Labour MPs join calls for anti-terrorism leaks inquiry
April 26, 2007 : Leaking Secrets
April 26, 2007 : Leaking Secrets
April 25, 2007 : UK Terror Chief Attacks Whitehall Spin
April 20, 2007 : Ten Years on - Just in the Nick of Time
April 19, 2007 : Ten Years on - An Astonishing Thought
April 14, 2007 : Norman Baker on David Kelly
April 8, 2007 : Nick Cohen and the Effects of Alcohol
March 22, 2007 : London 7/7 - The Story is Far From Over
March 7, 2007 : Levy, Blair and Injunctions
January 21, 2007 : The police bite back
January 18, 2007 : Blair under continued attack over Saudi arms deal
December 23, 2006 : You're attacking the wrong nation, Mr Blair
December 19, 2006 : Root failures
December 18, 2006 : No 10 investigated for perversion of justice
December 15, 2006 : The War on Shampoo
December 14, 2006 : Terror plot starts to fail in the mainstream
December 13, 2006 : "If you cross the path of tyranny..."
December 12, 2006 : Tories demand human rights focus
December 8, 2006 : When to leak?
December 6, 2006 : De Menezes officers 'lied about shooting'
December 4, 2006 : Real Weapons - Not Muslim - No Story
November 22, 2006 : News from Afghanistan
November 21, 2006 : Juggle that
November 17, 2006 : The State Without
November 17, 2006 : The State Within
November 17, 2006 : A Local Perspective: Muslims and Community Cohesion
November 13, 2006 : The rules of the game - play to the tabloid gallery
November 7, 2006 : REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
November 1, 2006 : The British parliament is God's gift to dictatorship
October 23, 2006 : Crucial Extradition Treaty Vote Tomorrow!
October 18, 2006 : Media Hypes Nutcase Scribblings as "Terror Plot Admission"
October 11, 2006 : Is Afghanistan Britain's Vietnam? Mass migration as civilians try to escape fighting
September 28, 2006 : An unlikely collection
September 25, 2006 : Islamist terrorism boosted by Iraq war: Blair clings on to ridiculous denial
September 21, 2006 : British Army expert casts doubt on 'liquid explosives' threat, Al Qaeda network in UK Identified
September 21, 2006 : MOD failures in casualty reporting
September 18, 2006 : Taliban "Ferocity" Stuns UK Troops
September 14, 2006 : Labour Council Moves to Supress Anti-war Demo by the Families of Dead British Servicemen
September 13, 2006 : De Menezes family brand promotion of officer 'slap in face'
September 11, 2006 : Top soldier quits as blundering campaign turns into 'pointless' war
September 10, 2006 : "Murder in Samarkand" confiscated by airport staff - again
September 10, 2006 : BRITAIN: The mysterious case of the disappearing 'terror’ plots
September 4, 2006 : Online Database of Terrorism Arrests
September 4, 2006 : The Real Threat We Face in Britain Is Blair
September 4, 2006 : “TIME TO GO” UK Tour, September 2006 - Updated Schedule
September 4, 2006 : The freedom paradox
August 25, 2006 : UK: Algerian national security deportation an affront to justice and a green light to torture
August 25, 2006 : Words equal liquids to mind police
August 24, 2006 : Iran is the the chief beneficiary of the 'war on terror'
August 24, 2006 : The 'Neoconservative' Sufi Muslim Council
August 23, 2006 : Why Sustainability, not Terrorism, Should Be Our Real Security Focus
August 23, 2006 : The Crown Prosecution Service
August 22, 2006 : You really can't fool all of the people all of the time
August 22, 2006 : John Reid's Scaremongering Succeeds in Making Racism Normal
August 21, 2006 : White House uses London 'terror plot' to drive legislation
August 21, 2006 : Police, politics and public safety: Letters in the Guardian
August 21, 2006 : Conspiracy plots make the world go round
August 18, 2006 : Deadly Baby Bottles
August 18, 2006 : "The Hollywood myth of binary liquid explosives"
August 17, 2006 : Hitting a nerve
August 15, 2006 : US gave green light to Israel: Attack on Lebanon essential precursor for military options against Iran
August 15, 2006 : About John Reid
August 14, 2006 : The UK Terror plot: what's really going on?
August 10, 2006 : No dead Lebanese children on TV today
August 8, 2006 : Blood on his hands
August 8, 2006 : The Ceasefire Now Demonstration - July 5th
August 3, 2006 : Who bothers with the monkey if he can go straight to the organ-grinder?
August 3, 2006 : Ceasefire Now!
August 2, 2006 : Blair's 'new' foreign policy
August 2, 2006 : Public meeting at UCL on government plans to spy on internet users
August 1, 2006 : HRW: Israeli failure to distinguish combatants and civilians is a war crime
July 31, 2006 : Massacres and Wirecutters
July 28, 2006 : US missile flights pressure grows
July 27, 2006 : Lebanon Ceasefire Now Protest to take place in London on Friday
July 27, 2006 : UK airport used to fly bombs to Israel
July 23, 2006 : Craig Murray on Lebanon
July 16, 2006 : Whitehall dug for dirt on rebel envoy
July 13, 2006 : Terror suspects face possible abuse, court told
July 11, 2006 : Foreign Office legal action "unlikely to succeed"
July 11, 2006 : Foreign Office issues new deadline, Craig Murray replies
July 7, 2006 : Police report: foreign policy helped make UK a target
July 7, 2006 : A public enquiry for 7/7: One year on the need is still as great
July 3, 2006 : UK parliament publishes damning report on Blair's foreign policy
July 3, 2006 : Judges cut through the hysteria of rulers made tyrants by fear
July 1, 2006 : Henry Porter and Tony Blair: The letters
July 1, 2006 : Charged for quoting George Orwell in public
June 30, 2006 : Blair's Big Brother Legacy
June 28, 2006 : Executive house arrest ruled unlawful: Another piece of government legislation proves not-fit-for-purpose
June 25, 2006 : BBC parrots Police untruths over rendition protests
June 19, 2006 : MPs to press ministers on torture claims
June 16, 2006 : Victims lose Saudi torture case
June 15, 2006 : You can’t teach old collaborators human rights
June 4, 2006 : Met chief could face charge over Menezes
May 26, 2006 : UK government fails to investigate renditions and tries to undermine ban on torture
May 23, 2006 : Labour party auction signed copies of the Hutton report
May 22, 2006 : Blair 'paying the price' over sleaze
May 16, 2006 : When will this abuse of human rights end?
May 16, 2006 : Postal Voting and Electoral Fraud
May 15, 2006 : Beckett defends her position on Iran
May 10, 2006 : Blair views the roses of future sucess
May 3, 2006 : Voting tomorrow? London Strategic Voter calls for a decisive turnout
May 1, 2006 : UK fights to safeguard immunity of officials accused of torturing Britons
April 30, 2006 : Diplomat: US, UK used torture information
April 30, 2006 : West used information secured under torture, ex-diplomat says
April 26, 2006 : Blair's hopes of surviving until 2008 may rest on local elections
April 19, 2006 : The shooting of de Menezes: inquiry witness on a collision course
April 5, 2006 : Anything anytime.....
April 4, 2006 : Strategic Voters target New Labour wipe-out in 4th May London local elections
April 2, 2006 : Beware, Jack, there's steel in her heart
March 27, 2006 : Publication of Political Memoirs: Tony Benn makes the case for openess
March 26, 2006 : 'Talking to Terrorists' a review of the US production
March 21, 2006 : The Truth About Lies
March 20, 2006 : Strategic voting in the London elections: Make May 4th count!
March 17, 2006 : 'Talking to terrorists' opens in the US
March 13, 2006 : More evidence of Foreign Office complicity in torture
March 13, 2006 : "Get away from me. I will not be insulted by you. This is an insult" - Charles Clarke's words to the father of a 7/7 survivor who challenged him about the lack of a public inquiry
March 13, 2006 : Government washes its hands of weapons sales to the Uzbek government
March 10, 2006 : Tessa Jowell's husband may be put on trial with Berlusconi
March 9, 2006 : Britain moves to stop diplomat tell-alls
March 8, 2006 : Out of the woods?
March 5, 2006 : Sunday morning and still angry
March 4, 2006 : If Fred and Rosemary West Had Separated, Would That Have Made Them Innocent?
March 3, 2006 : Invest in a TESSA
March 2, 2006 : Who actually believes this?
March 2, 2006 : I thought I had heard it all
March 1, 2006 : Run of the Mill
February 28, 2006 : Normality and the Jowells
February 24, 2006 : Human rights "a broken promise in the UK"
February 21, 2006 : Outrage grows over Police harrassment of "Road to Guantanamo" actors
February 21, 2006 : "She asked me whether I intended to do more documentary films, specifically more political ones like The Road to Guantánamo'"
February 19, 2006 : Henry Porter: Blair's new laws leave us at the mercy of future tyrants
February 18, 2006 : *INTERNET EXCLUSIVE*: UK police arrest stars of award-winning film "The Road to Guantanamo" under the Prevention of Terrorism Act
February 16, 2006 : Glorification?
February 15, 2006 : The Flying Iman on 'Fighting for the rights of others'
February 8, 2006 : Siddiqui urges Muslims to embrace freedom of speech
February 8, 2006 : John Reid calls for the use of "implacable force"
February 7, 2006 : Publish and be damned
February 7, 2006 : Home Office to water down anti-torture/war crime legislation under pressure from Israeli government
February 6, 2006 : Craig Murray on cartoons and religion
February 1, 2006 : Lords defeat government attempt to give Police arbitrary power to ban websites
February 1, 2006 : Foreign Affairs Committee: Will the FCO Release the Requested Documents on Torture?
January 29, 2006 : London bombings survivor Rachel North on the government's refusal to acknowledge the causes of terrorism
January 26, 2006 : UK Parliamentary Group on Rendition Meets to Discuss the Next Move
January 25, 2006 : Secret Memo on British Involvolment in CIA Flights Now Available
January 23, 2006 : MPs accuse Straw over misleading them over 'rendition'
January 23, 2006 : Foreign Office Minister Misled Parliament Over UN Meeting on Extraordinary Rendition
January 19, 2006 : "I am prepared to go to court and I am prepared to go to prison to oppose war and the erosion of our rights"
January 19, 2006 : LEAK OF THE WEEK: Leaked memo reveals UK government strategy to deny knowledge of detention centres
January 17, 2006 : Landmark Speech by Al Gore Cites the Tashkent Telegrams
January 13, 2006 : Straw under fire for refusing CIA flights inquiry
January 9, 2006 : Impeach Blair, says General Sir Michael Rose
January 6, 2006 : Whitehall unconfidential: the censors are on the run
January 6, 2006 : Have Bloggers Killed the Official Secrets Act?
January 3, 2006 : On the death of the Official Secrets Act
January 3, 2006 : Her Majesty’s Secret Service?
January 2, 2006 : Asil Nadir, MI6, and the flight to Cyprus
January 2, 2006 : Anger at refusal to reveal legal advice on possible torture flights
January 2, 2006 : Jack Straw Caught Lying Again? - British admit being at terror grilling
December 31, 2005 : But what if torture can protect us from terrorism?
December 28, 2005 : Another blow to the UK government's ban on free speech - Catholics commemorate the dead inside the exclusion zone. No arrests made.
December 28, 2005 : Alleged MI6 torturer back in Britain - but will he face justice?
December 21, 2005 : Will Tony Blair arrest us for singing songs of peace and goodwill in Parliament Square at 6pm this evening? Christmas Carol concert will test the limits of government free speech ban.
December 20, 2005 : Foreign office staff threatened resignations in bid to stop US bombing of Al Jazeera. Jack Straw lies over CIA flights.
December 19, 2005 : Public Carol Service in Parliament Square
December 16, 2005 : Public Carol Service in Parliament Square
December 16, 2005 : Petition Launched Demanding Enquiry Into London 7/7 Attacks
December 16, 2005 : Complicit by Inaction: Jack Straw in 'rendition flights' probe
December 15, 2005 : Rendition victim was handed over to the US by MI6
December 14, 2005 : Mercenaries in Iraq - Q & A from the FAC
December 13, 2005 : British Agents Kidnapped Suspects in Greece?
December 12, 2005 : Straw Plays Ignorant
December 9, 2005 : The UK did use evidence gained under torture
December 9, 2005 : The National Security Whistleblowers Association
December 8, 2005 : Massive blow to Blair-Straw torture policy - Lords rule out use of secret evidence gained through torture as grounds for detention without trial
December 8, 2005 : Human Rights Under Renewed Threat From Asylum and Nationality Bill
November 19, 2005 : Foreign Affairs Committee to call British government documents on use of torture evidence
November 14, 2005 : Torture bill
November 9, 2005 : Don't be duped by yet another dodgy dossier
November 7, 2005 : Government Terror Plan Branded as 'Nonsense'
November 1, 2005 : Foreign Affairs Committee informed of documentary evidence that challenges the veracity of Jack Straw
November 1, 2005 : Jack Straw dodges questions on torture and extraordinary rendition
November 1, 2005 : The sins of Blunkett
October 29, 2005 : Hazel Blears responds to Craig Murray's charge that she made false claims to Parliament
October 29, 2005 : MPs debate the Terrorism Bill - be careful what you say!
October 29, 2005 : Definitions of terrorism according to Charles Clarke?
October 24, 2005 : Minister 'misled Commons' over attacks by Islamic group
October 21, 2005 : The Security Services Support Torture: That is Why We Have a Judiciary
October 20, 2005 : MI5 officially admits they use torture evidence
October 19, 2005 : Scotland’s answer to Walter Wolfgang
October 18, 2005 : Jack Straw: fully informed, fully culpable
October 17, 2005 : Hazel Blears Lies to Parliament about Origin of Intelligence
October 17, 2005 : Blair in dock over his case for terror laws
October 16, 2005 : Iraq envoy's tell-all memoir blocked
October 1, 2005 : The courage of Walter Wolfgang
September 27, 2005 : Deportation of British residents linked to £40bn arms deal
September 21, 2005 : Ex-ambassador accuses Straw of lying over torture
September 17, 2005 : Blows to democracy
September 14, 2005 : Deportations not based on intelligence assessment of risk
September 9, 2005 : Indefinete executive detention without trial is approved by appeals court in the US
September 7, 2005 : UK government threatens judiciary with regime change over human rights
August 26, 2005 : Pat Robertson to be banned from UK?
August 24, 2005 : Amnesty International reacts to UK government's plans for deportation
August 23, 2005 : UN Special Rapporteur criticises Blairs position on deportations and torture
August 22, 2005 : Lord Liverpool and Tony Blair?
August 17, 2005 : The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
August 16, 2005 : Not Worth the Paper They're Written On
August 9, 2005 : Robin Cook on Craig Murray
August 8, 2005 : "Those of us who believe freedom is important, face a huge battle over many years, and against great odds. We have lost our best leader" - Craig Murray on the death of Robin Cook
August 5, 2005 : Casting Aside Justice
July 30, 2005 : Protest against government exclusion zone
July 28, 2005 : PERPETUAL WAR JUSTIFIES EVERYTHING
July 21, 2005 : New attacks hit London transport system
July 19, 2005 : Craig Murray: "It is a foreign policy of oil grab cloaked in hypocrisy, and the impact of that policy on Muslims, that has caused this hate."
July 18, 2005 : Riding Pillion in the US war on terror
July 15, 2005 : Moazamm Begg talks about possible motives for the London attacks
July 14, 2005 : British involvement in torture - Jack Straw obfuscates again
July 10, 2005 : UK Foreign Affairs Committee: "We find it surprising and unsettling that the Government has twice failed to answer our specific question on whether or not the United Kingdom receives or acts upon information extracted under torture..."
July 8, 2005 : SOME THOUGHTS ON THE LONDON BOMBINGS
June 24, 2005 : "Post modernist" foreign policy
April 19, 2005 : Legal expert slams Straw's position on torture
April 15, 2005 : British complicity in torture
April 13, 2005 : "Torturers are on the march" - Screenwriter condemns Craig Murray's dismissal
April 12, 2005 : Speaking out for human rights and democracy
March 20, 2005 : Sunday Times - Foreign Office faces probe into 'manipulation'
February 27, 2005 : The Observer - British liberty is under threat
February 20, 2005 : Sunday Herald - Ex-ambassador slams Straw over torture
November 15, 2004 : "Selling Our Souls for Dross"
November 11, 2004 : The Guardian - UK allies among worst abusers of human rights
October 24, 2004 : The Observer - There is no case for torture, ever
October 18, 2004 : The Guardian - How can Britain stoop so low?
October 16, 2004 : The Guardian - Undiplomatic truths
October 11, 2004 : Spies "lap up" info from torture
October 28, 2003 : The Guardian - Tony Blair's new friend
October 24, 2003 : The 'war on terror' must not become a cover to support repressive regimes
October 18, 2003 : The Guardian - Ambassador accused after criticising US