For decent, humanitarian, human-rights aware British people, this week has been both extremely affirming and incredibly painful. The affirmation is hard to express adequately, but it comes from the transcendent sense that we did the right thing this week. The publication of Lord Saville’s report of his inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday is [...]

Eric Pickles, Office of the Party Chairman Conservative and Unionist Party, 30 Millbank, London, SW1P 4DP Dear Chris, Whilst it is as you know not normally in my nature to write to members in a negative way, I feel that I really must write to you today to put on the record the way in [...]

The BBC reports that DUP MP Gregory Campbell has criticised the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commissioner for raising  concerns about the situation of currently detained terror suspects in Northern Ireland. Monica McWilliams has noted, quite correctly, that the facilities in the Serious Crime Unit in which the arrested people are being detained are not suitable [...]

Thanks to the DUP’s ridiculous caving to Government, and most likely some embarrassingly mercenery negotiating, the principle of Human Rights in the UK has been abandoned. Labour selling out to the DUP? We’ve now adopted the principle that terrorist suspects (note ‘suspects’) can now be held for up to 42 days; goodbye Habeas Corpus, and [...]

Overheard in a chatroom (uttered by an American, obviously enough) last night: “People in London, they protest all the god-damned time.  Every time something happens they hate, they go protest about it.  We’re just not like that here” The Olympic Flame débacle threatens to create a black-hole of deliberate ignorance around the issue of China’s [...]