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• Alan Johnsons dilemma is unbalanced | Henry Porter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The DNA database does not balance liberty with the needs of the state, the states unreasonable demand has eroded liberty When a politician talks about balance I reach for my taser. The word "balance" has become one of the primary means of distorting the political debate and eroding the stock of liberty. "Today, on ...
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• Aggressive policing of protests condemned in G20 inquiry

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Senior inspector warns police risk losing public consent and calls for return to 19th-century style of minimal force Senior police officers could lose the consent of the British public unless they abandon misguided approaches to public protests that are considered "unfair, aggressive and inconsistent", an inquiry ...
  9 hours ago

• Nearly One Million Passengers have Used the Latest Face Scanning Technology At Britain’s Airports

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Nearly one million passengers have used the latest face scanning technology at Britain’s airports, the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson announced today. He confirmed the figure while visiting the state-of-the-art facial recognition gates at Gatwick Airport’s North Terminal. More than 950,000 passengers have used the ...
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• One in four girls face attack by boyfriend

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  NSPCC research says quarter of young females suffer violence and a third are coerced into sex Teenage perpetrators of domestic violence are to be targeted by the government in a hard-hitting awareness campaign that reflects concern about physical abuse meted out by the young. The move, part of the governments ...
  2 days ago

• The next election winner will be a Harold Wilson, not a Tony Blair | Jackie Ashley

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The latest poll shows a narrowing gap between the parties: for the new prime minister it will be 1974 rather than 1997 Opinion polls dont really change the political weather. Like mild breezes, they dont bring down trees, or transform the landscape; but they can make us give the world a second glance. Yesterdays ...
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• Teenage girls face sexual violence threat

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Teenage perpetrators of domestic violence are to be targeted by the government in a hard-hitting awareness campaign that reflects concern about physical abuse meted out by the young. The move, part of the governments Violence Against Women and Girls strategy, highlights fears that if people under 20 commit domestic ...
  3 days ago

• The deathbed conversion has yet to deliver the goods | Seumas Milne

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  Labour is finally inching in the direction it should have taken years ago, but even now Brown cant stop triangulating Queens speeches always have a slightly comical, Ruritanian feel to them. But yesterdays spectacle of the crowned and bejewelled sovereign, with an annual public income of £8m, solemnly ...
  6 days ago

• Compass thinktank considers backing coup against Gordon Brown

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Pressure group fears poll defeat could be devastating • Pre-budget report may be deciding factor The influential centre-left pressure group Compass has reopened the question of whether Gordon Brown should lead Labour into the general election. The group held out against the previous coup attempt in June, but ...
  1 week ago

• Electoral reform: Change or decay

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  The government is running out of time. There are, it is estimated, 40 legislating days between the Queens speech on Wednesday and the general election next May. The address from the throne could seal its fate, if it chooses to stick to the draft legislative programme and hunker down to protect its achievements. ...
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• Team Sting: Music Police

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 493
  Finally, a pop star worthy of the name has come out and said what every sane person in this country has been thinking for years: X Factor sucks.Ok, I may be horribly misquoting Sting there. So here’s a direct quote I’ve taken from Wednesday’s edition of London’s most respected evening newspaper. “The X ...
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• Dont restart the clock on Gary McKinnon | Duncan Campbell

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Enough is enough: the hackers medical diagnosis means extradition would be disastrous. Alan Johnson must act now What now for Gary McKinnon? Last month, the home secretary, Alan Johnson, said that he had "stopped the clock" on the extradition to the United States of the computer hacker while new evidence about his ...
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• McKinnon is thrown a lifeline – Inquirer

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 160
  DailyTechMcKinnon is thrown a lifelineInquirerHis defence has been that he was only looking for UFO sightings in US space agency and military computers. While US prosecutors admit they could not make …States made to wait over hacker Gary McKinnonMirror.co.ukFresh hope for McKinnonLegalbrief (subscription)Alan ...
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• MoD Bonuses Must Stop

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 545
  click to enlarge Graphic courtesy of the Wardman Wire Quite a few bloggers have posted on the subject of bonuses for Ministry of Defence Staff. In the first 6 months of this year £47 million was issued to MoD civil servants in bonuses. LastoftheFew draws out attention to the numbers ...
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• Schumacher Wants This Championship Bad

  
  Racin' Today — Authority: 441
  By Jim Pedley | Managing EditorRacinToday.comThis time around there is more than just money and trophies and championships at stake for Tony Schumacher. This time around he needs it as much as wants it. This time around, it is truly and literally personal for Schumacher.The winner of the last five NHRA Top Fuel ...
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• U.K. Government Announces New Proposals for DNA Retention

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  A series of proposals designed to ensure the right people are on the National DNA Database, as well as defining when people should come off has been announced by British Home Secretary Alan Johnson. DNA and the use of forensics play an essential role in fighting crime and providing justice for victims. The UK has ...
  1 week ago

• The one-sided debate on asylum seekers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The home secretary is simply interested in making a political point Of course, when a politician says he "wants a debate", what he really means is that hes got something that is beneficial to his party that he wants to say at you. Home secretary Alan Johnson claims to be keen to launch a debate on immigration. ...
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• Brown pledges new limits on migrants

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Migrant workers will only fill jobs temporarily in parts of the economy where there are labour shortages, says PM Gordon Brown will intervene in the critical issue of immigration, using a major speech tomorrow to promise that migrant workers will only be used to fill jobs temporarily in parts of the economy where ...
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• David Nutt row referred to chief scientific adviser

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Professor John Beddington to report to PM on freedom of drug advisers to publicly criticise government policy The issue at the centre of the row between the home secretary and his drug advisers – their freedom to publicly criticise government policy without being dismissed – has been referred to the chief ...
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• Cabinet split over backdated ports rates bills

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Home Secretary Alan Johnson has provided further evidence of a Government split over backdated business rates for port companies by urging a Cabinet colleague to intervene on behalf of one of his constituents.
  2 weeks ago

• New DNA policy as flawed as the old

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  The government should implement a proportionate retention policy now rather than attempt to build a national DNA database by stealth Last December, 17 judges of the European Court of Human Rights delivered a unanimous judgment condemning the UKs policy of indefinitely retaining the DNA of those arrested, but not ...
  2 weeks ago

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