The Met appears to be in headlong retreat this morning. The acting commissioner has just appointed a chief constable to carry out an urgent review of the handling of the arrest of Damian Green and the Home Office mole. The question it needs to answer is how an everyday Whitehall drama has been turned into a major constitutional crisis. As I reported the other day, the police took the view that the...
Yesterday sterling had the biggest drop it has had since it was forced out of the ERM on White Wednesday in 1992. The pound was down 4% at $1.48 and it fell 2.9% against the euro and tumbled 4.8% the yen. It just goes to show how bad Britain's situation is that this isn't even front page news on every paper.
We should all support Damian Green against the Stalinesque tendencies of the police state. His crime is just to release documents that were leaked to him - documents that were in the public interest. Even though this isn’t something that I would normally suggest, considering the importance of the issue, I can but support the idea
Organising a cover-up of matters that later become the subject of court proceedings may amount to perverting the course of public justice. Harriett the Harpy as a QC should remember that. This Labour Government's assault on Parliamentary Democracy proceeds apace. How astonishing it is that they have managed to attract unfavourable comparisons with (a) Richard Nixon, who was a dab hand at sett...
Following on from Boris' idea of "earned citizenship", Iain Duncan Smith is pushing the idea that council tenants who seek work and "keep their families in good order... could earn a share of the equity in their homes... Social housing often acts as a block against people getting back to work, with lifetime tenure and lack of mobility" he told the Today show this morning. Equity should be offered ...
Everybody is appalled by the death of Baby P, but we need to understand that the implications go far beyond Haringey. According to Children's Secretary Balls: "When I met with the Chief Inspector, she told me that in her judgement...
War, hunger, poverty and sickness will stalk humanity if the world fails to tackle climate change, the 12-day UN conference on global warming at Poznan was told yesterday. Simultaneously – in what cannot be a coincidence – we have the government's "global warming advisor" warning that, "It is not too late to tackle climate change, but it will be unless the world takes action soon"...
