The lone surviving terrorist from last week's devastating attacks in Mumbai has been in police custody since he was captured last week (his exact name is a matter of dispute, but let's call him Ajmal Amir Kasab for now). He's given up some information, according to press accounts, but the Times of London now reports that Indian interrogators are prepared to take a drastic step to ge...

In the first half of this decade, round where I live (East London/Essex), lawns just died in the summer. For months they were just baked earth covered with yellowing strands of grass; but come Autumn, they'd green up again. I haven't seen a properly parched lawn for years now. Is this a sign of climate change, global cooling or what?

The Amnesty website reports that speak at an event at the Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2 on 10 December. His address will be followed by a conversation between Nick Clegg and Krishnan Guru Murthy of Channel 4 News and questions from the floor. The event starts at 6.30 p.m. and is free of charge. Book via the Amnesty website. Thanks to Liberal Conspiracy.

Boris Johnson the London Mayor has been accused of an "astonishing" gaffe over the Damian Green affair after he admitted he had telephoned the Tory MP after he was bailed as a potential criminal suspect.

This time next year surely the Lisbon Treaty must either be dead and buried or alive and kicking. My prediction is that next week the Irish government will announce that it will ask the Irish people to vote again on the Lisbon Treaty in a new referendum next autumn. The Irish prime minister is on a whistle-stop tour of Europe - first Luxembourg, then Germany, London on Thursday then a quick trip t...

Tom Griffin (London, OK): Inquest has today welcomed the inclusion of the Coroners and Justice Bill in the Queens Speech as an opportunity for a long overdue reform of the inquest system. However, it looks as if that prospect may be tainted by a nasty sting in the tail of the legislation. According to NO2ID National Director Phil Booth, the bill contains broad new data-sharing powers that cou...

I read that hundreds of undergraduates in London have applied to take part in a beauty contest to be named Miss University London. The students will participate in heats in the hope of being one of only 15 who will reach the contest's grand final in February. However, the event has opened a split in London's university student body. Protesters say it is misogynistic and degrading, and sh...

There's been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in the previous threads about whether the Police need ed warrant or now. The Police apparently think they did, because they had three warrants issued at 5.15pm on Wednesday. One was to seach Damian Green's Ashford home, one to search his London home and one to search his constituency office. Why did they not apply for a warrant to search his House...

Leader of the Labour group on the London Assembly Len Duvall says Boris Johnson should consider his position as chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority after the Mayor's admission that he and his political office have been in contact with arrested MP Damien Green. Labour group leader Len Duvall said: "It is astonishing that the Mayor, following a briefing from senior police officers, has b...

Tessa Jowell is under fire for appearing to lecture multinational food and drink firms who are spending tens of millions of pounds sponsoring the 2012 Olympic Games.