When we hear of detention without charge, we think of the governments repeated attempts to impose 14, 28, 52, 90 days detention whilst police put the case together. This has been repeatedly defeated in the House of Commons, but... The Tories answer to this was, continue the investigation after arrest, i.e. arrest someone, then continue the questioning and the investigation. Following on from the signing of the Lisbon Treaty, Tim Worstall writes that you can now expect that they’ll be harmonising the legal systems soon enough and this is the sort of thing which will happen:   more »

Shortly after the second anniversary of 7th July 2005, J7: The July 7th Truth Campaign was contacted by Chris Alcock of the BBC who advised us of plans for a BBC documentary covering the events of 7th July 2005. No detail about the nature of the 'documentary' was provided until five months later, in December 2007, when another BBC employee, Assistant Producer Susan Prichard, advised us by email that the BBC production in question, rather than being a serious documentary effort for which the BBC was once well known, was in fact an episode of BBC2's risible Conspiracy Files series.   more »

The government spins and deceives to tell you its CPI measure of inflation is correct. But over in the private sector no one is fooled. Average wage increases are now at 4% and rising, as off course is inflation.   more »