After James Naughtie’s laugh a minute, cliché-ridden put down of Scotland and the town of Kilmarnock, I listened to his latest jaunt on the Today programme into the northern territories with a mix of fear and trepidation
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Human Rights Watch publishes a disturbing new report, "Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan"
Have just listened to Jim Naughtie’s deliberately downbeat, dour and depressive journey north to Kilmarnock for the Today programme, searching everywhere for doom and gloom and not surprisingly finding
The final HMIC report on the G20 puts another nail in the coffin in the current oppressive model of protest policing.
It is day six of the 'scandal' over the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, in
Tony Blair once described Jack Straw as a "tart". Takes one to know one? Anyway, there seems to be nothing a tart delights in more than teasing us
Discussion of Britain's public service guarantees involved predictable fretting about "opening the floodgates to the vexatious, litigious and disaffected", rather than considering the people who stand to benefit from this advance
The future of Britain is at stake as the country heads towards an election year: a recent Scottish by-election gave Labour a surprising majority. Anthony Barnett takes this as the starting point for an exchange with Gerry Hassan on where a country with many parliaments is heading.
The long time Labour MP for Nottingham North issues a bitter, swinging assessment of the pernicious collusion of government and media that is strangling parliamentary democracy in Britain
