The recent charge that the Home Office takes steps to ‘fix’ the asylum figures is a shocking one. It shines light on a system dogged by maladministration and misplaced priorities.
Sir Jeremy Heywood was Principal Private Secretary to Tony Blair; he must not be the man to decide which conversations are to be made public at the Chilcot enquiry. Here is David Owen's full letter to David Cameron with accompanying note.
Charities are set to be silenced. The Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee explains the appalling process by which this government has bulldozed its astonishing Lobbying Bill through the British parliament. The government has shown a flagrant disregard for democracy. N
The UK immigration minister Mark Harper mocked an Iraqi asylum-seeker on national television. Expert witnesses discover time and again that the Home Office fails honourable people who have valid claims for asylum.
A former BBC editor argues that the system is close to breaking point and meaningful voting and participative democracy, rather than revolution, must be the answer.
The London student president was arrested yesterday outside his union building for "failing to notify police of a procession", and has now been bailed with conditions banning him from protesting about anything within half a mile of any university.
Britain's most influential tabloid newspaper used its front page to defame human rights claimants as "murderers, terrorists and traitors". A forced retraction does not undo the damage.
Since court interpreting has been outsourced, wages have plummeted, quality of interpreting has dropped to a dangerous level, and the justice system has often ground to a halt. A foretaste of what to expect from outsourced services across the country?
The recent Changin Scotland weekend highlights the fact that the radical left can, and must, go further than simply speaking to itself in order to help create a more democratic, equal and less institutionally-dominated Scotland.
