Just a bit of clairvoyance about the headlines we’ll be seeing in a few years time if this nonsense ever gets into law. Alan Travis’ report on the government’s plans to tackle the problem of dogs used as weapons by...

Implications of the European court decision on DNA database

Government's Christmas advert warning against cocaine

Alan Travis on plans to restrict immigration appeals

Richard Thomas appears to launch himself on a courageous collision course with our own correspondent, Permanent Secretary at Large and Data-sharing Czar Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom. The Information Commission, famously pragmatic in his approach to data protection, makes the fundamental point that megadatabases present privacy problems, according to an Alan Travis piece in The Guardian The proliferat...

Public confidence in the national crime statistics has never been high. Opinion polls repeatedly tell us that the public think crime has been rising remorselessly despite the fact that on the best measure that we have available - the British Crime Survey - it has fallen by more than a third since 1995. Indeed when Charles Clarke was home secretary he thought this lack of public trust had got so ba...

Alan Travis discusses the MI5 analysis of the path to radicalisation

Alan Travis discusses government plans to store all our email, text and internet usage data

Alan Travis: Is it true that 'blade violence' is spreading everywhere and no part of Britain is safe?

Analysis: The label of 'blade Britain' does not tally with the national breakdown of the official figures, writes Alan Travis