In an attempt to force the Government to admit what the constitutional position of the Queen will be before and after the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, Lord Willoughby de Broke has tabled the following amendment to the European Union (Amendment) Bill, currently doing its final round in the House of Lords.   more »

THE House of Commons has shredded more than 1m documents detailing expenses claims by MPs that were due to be revealed to the public. The Commons authorities said last week they had destroyed all documents for MPs up to April 2004, even though official guidelines state that such records should be kept for six years.   more »

The British Government is in the High Court today, its biggest legal guns trained on a lone citizen, Stuart Wheeler, who is suing them in his courageous effort to force the Labour Government to hold the Referendum on the EU Reform Treaty as promised in their Party's Election Manifesto of 2005. Mr Wheeler writes:   more »

The Guardian carries an editorial commenting on the recent Home Affairs Select Committee report: The scale of the state’s move into aspects of life once considered private is not in dispute. The home affairs report describes in detail how technology allows the government and business (often leading the way) to capture details of the everyday behaviour of citizens.   more »