Open mouthed at the comparison Jack Straw made with the 1689 Bill of Rights. Straw's proposals are not Rights, it is a catalogue of entitlements. The only Rights that are being enshrined are for the State, it will enshrine the right of punitive taxation, the Right of a massive State to exist and exercise almost total control of the subject, because you will no longer considered a free citizen...

Jack Straw the Justice Secretary has insisted that the Government still wants to press ahead with a new Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to rebalance the country's human rights culture.

Gary Slapper - a Professor of Law at the Open University - has a superb guest column in the Times today, which, cooly and meticulously, takes Jack Straw to pieces over his nauseating decision to block the release of the minutes of cabinet discussions that preceded the invasion of Iraq… “Jack Straw, in ruling against the

The ominously titled Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, claims he is as frustrated as anyone about the way the Human Rights Act has become a sort of "villains charter". He suggested that the rights in the legislation, which enshrined the European Convention on Human Rights in British law, could be balanced with new “responsibilities” to obey the law and to be loyal to the country. First of...

Labour politics this coming Monday looks like being a battle of the Straws, Jack and his up-and-coming political son, Will (whom Jack shopped to the police in the days when he was Home Secretary, for selling cannabis). Around 4.30pm on Monday, the Justice Secretary Jack Straw is due to unveil his long-expected Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to the House of Commons. And then two hours later in...

Jack Straw denies that he had any foreknowledge of the arrest of Damian Green. Jack Straw denied directly to the BBC in the documentary "The Ambassador's Last Stand", and denied to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, that he had any part in the false accusatins laid against me or in my removal as Ambassador for raising human rights concerns. Yet, as detailed in Murder in Samarkand...

Justice secretary Jack Straw is planning to "rebalance" the Human Rights Act amidst concerns it has become a "villains charter".

Is Jack Straw having a laugh? The justice minister has ordered the cancellation of a comedy workshop for prisoners at a top security jail. The course, which started on Monday at Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire, was supposed to run for eight days. Jack Straw, Secretary of State for Justice, described the course as “totally unacceptable”. This is all rather

Not long after Jacqui Smith declared that the 42-Days detention measure was brought in as part of a new culture of preventing knee-jerk legislation, Jack Straw? puts through knee-jerk legislation. After a ruling by the Law Lords last week that the present witness anonymity rules jeopardise fair trials, Mr. Straw has decided that the ...

Former foreign secretary Jack Straw offered Tony Blair a "way out" of attacking Iraq at a secret meeting days ahead of the invasion, it was claimed yesterday.