Politics: Law & Reform
Lead Feature
A new deal for British children
Why are our young people so unhappy? Because we have become a society that fears, demonises and silences them. The fault is ours, not theirs
In law & reform
Chagos and the Law Lords
- By Sean Carey
- 01 July
Witnessing the evidence as the Lord Laws hear the case of the Chagos Islanders - forcibly removed from their homes by the British in the 1960s and 1970s
Greens: We're civil liberties party
- By Adrian Ramsay
- 30 June
Just which party is the standard bearer for civil liberties? Well Adrian Ramsay says it is the Greens and urges the NS to endorse them in Haltemprice and Howden
Porn's to blame...
- By Tania Glyde
- 30 June
Every time a case like Neil Entwistle’s is reported, it gives fuel to those in favour of blanket and intrusive censorship of pornography, writes Tania Glyde
Banning Khat
- By Hugh Barnes
- 26 June
An overdue reform of drugs policy or another draconian attack on our civil liberties? Hugh Barnes reflects on the Tory proposal
Fabricate that fear
- By John Pilger
- 26 June
Those snatched from their homes in Britain following 11 September 2001 have all but vanished into an Anglo-American gulag
CRB checks are regrettable – but necessary
- By Martin Narey
- 26 June
Martin Narey on the painful dilemmas of child protection
Feature
One man on a rock
The curious tale of Stuart Hill who has declared his remote island in the Shetlands to be independent of the United Kingdom - much to the irritation of his local MP
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