The courage and morality of New Labour laid bare: David Miliband and Jacqui Smith have both refused to appear before Parliament’s human rights committee to answer questions about allegations of British collusion in the torture of British citizens and residents detained during counter-terrorism...

Image by Beau Bo D'Or You have to admit it’s elegant. The Foreign Secretary who was instrumental in making the fraudulent case for an illegal war in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed is now the Justice Secretary suppressing documents detailing the making of the fraudulent case ...

‘The British government abhors torture and would never authorise it or condone it,’ says out fine, upstanding Foreign Secretary and moral paragon, David Miliband. But if a so-called ally in the so-called war against terror wants to soften a fellow up before we question him, well hey, wha...

And no, one of them isn’t ‘off’ in response to his staggeringly half-arsed plan to censor the Internet. The two words are prior restraint . Still, Mr Burnham can scratch the itch of his technocratic authoritarianism all he likes but if this plan actually happens (who decides what&#...

The government lovingly and gently lowers our wedding tackle into American hands… The UK Atomic Weapons Establishment, which makes and maintains the warheads for Britain’s nuclear missiles, has come under the control of US companies after the government sold its one-third stake. Ministers we...

Gordon Brown still burbling on to no clear purpose… …we have given people new rights to protest outside Parliament… No, no, no, no, NO! You merely gave us back the rights you took away in the first place, jackass. You flicked the switch back on you’d previously turned off you...

I was wondering if the government’s tactics to win the vote on 42 days internment might be applicable in other walks of life. After all, these people are exemplars who have risen to the highest stations in British life. Why would it be wrong to follow their example? For those just coming in, t...

If this abject waste of water and carbon wins today I, and many like me, will never ever stop taking the piss. (Video via Mike)...

We’ve got five years, what a surprise, since the big march. Two articles today about it stand out. The one by John Harris in the Guardian takes an optimistic tack: In Birmingham, the march’s organisers reserved well over 100 coaches - enough to carry at least 5,000 people - and then trie...

Some people really need to get out more: Government plans to give the home secretary powers to remove juries from some inquests are “astonishing”, an influential group of MPs says. A little-noticed clause in the Counter Terrorism Bill would also enable the home secretary to change the co...