Alan Johnson

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• A Letter From Anne McLaughlin For Alan Johnson, Home Secretary.

  
  ModernityBlog — Authority: 475
  Anne McLaughlin has taken up the terrible case of Florence and Precious Mhango, but can’t seem to get thru to Alan Johnson, the British Home Secretary, still I hope one of his lackeys will see this:Dear Mr JohnsonFlorence and Precious (Tionge) MhangoI am sure you will be aware of the above named mother and daughter ...
  15 hours ago

• Police reforms have failed to increase time officers spend on patrol

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Police anger as home secretary Alan Johnson urges £70m cut in overtime The governments policing reforms are failing to make serious progress and officers are spending no more time on the beat now than they were two years ago, the polices "red tape tsar" has said. Jan Berry, the head of the reducing bureaucracy ...
  3 days ago

• Gary McKinnon given more time to challenge Alan Johnsons decision to extradite him

  
  WebeUFOBelievers — Authority: 141
  The news means that in theory that Mr McKinnon could be sent to America before the new year, if his application in the UK for judicial review is rejected, and he is refused leave to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.Mr McKinnon was this afternoon given until Thursday 10 December to challenge a decision in ...
  3 days ago

• Blow to home secretary as terror suspects win secret evidence case

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Human rights campaigners hail high court ruling that if the government is going to lock you up, it needs to tell you why Senior judges have ruled for a second time against the use of secret evidence in terror cases in a fresh setback for the home secretary, Alan Johnson. Mr Justice Laws, sitting with Mr Justice ...
  4 days ago

• Myth #7

  
  And another thing... — Authority: 579
  YOU OFTEN hear claims that the treaty under which Gary McKinnon’s extradition is being sought was constructed specifically for dealing with terrorists. This is false. The explanatory notes to the Extradition Act 2003 state: The Government set out its proposals to reform the law on extradition in a consultation ...
  4 days ago

• Alan Johnson’s McKinnon statement

  
  And another thing... — Authority: 579
  ALAN JOHNSON, the Home Secretary, made a statement in the Commons this afternoon in response to an Urgent Question (they used to be known as “Private Notice Questions”) from Gary McKinnon’s MP, David Burrowes. Alan dashed the hopes of campaigners hoping he would intervene in the extradition process. At the risk ...
  4 days ago

• Johnson defends extradition of Pentagon hacker

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Home secretary says hackers fate is heavy burden • Timeline: Gary McKinnons fight against extradition Home secretary Alan Johnson has defended his decision not to step into the case of Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon, who faces extradition to the United States for breaking into US government computers eight ...
  4 days ago

• Alan Johnson accused of spineless decision to extradict suicidal McKinnon

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Alan Johnson has been accused of being "spineless" for sending a "suicidal and sectionable" British man to face justice in America.
  4 days ago

• A question of balance

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Telegraph View: The real issue here is equal treatment under the law.
  5 days ago

• Sacked government drug adviser says Gordon Brown is from another universe

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  The scientist who was sacked as the governments chief adviser on drugs has mocked Gordon Brown as someone whose views come from another "universe".
  5 days ago

• Home Secretary says McKinnon must face US trial

  
  Darknet - The Darkside — Authority: 459
  Since the last update almost a year ago when Gary won the right to appeal against extradition, the latest news in the Gary Mckinnon saga is that his extradition to the US for trial will be going ahead.Even with his apparent medical condition of Ass Burgers Asperger’s it seems he will be extradited anyway according ...
  5 days ago

• ID card scheme launched in Greater Manchester

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Residents who want £30 card can enrol at offices in city centre and at airport Identity cards will be available to people living in Manchester from today. The schemes launch was overshadowed by the revelation that the cards are only available to people who already have a passport or whose passport expired this ...
  5 days ago

• Fiona Phillips: Political ambitions

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  She left the GMTV couch last year for a quieter life but is now busier than ever. The presenter speaks about her new Christmas series, turning down a peerage and dipping a toe into politics She left GMTV last year saying she wanted to do less, but Fiona Phillips is still a difficult woman to get hold of. When I try ...
  6 days ago

• Letters: Gary McKinnon extradition decision is shameful

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Alan Johnson has said that he would do nothing to stop Gary McKinnon from being extradited to the US ( Report , 27 November). Surely, as a compassionate country, we should help our citizens rather than condemn them to a prison sentence on foreign soil? The computers that were hacked did not have adequate security in ...
  6 days ago

• Gary McKinnon and the special relationship: they ask, we give

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  All European countries have extradition arrangements with the US; just some are more favourable to it than others, writes Gill Hornby.
  1 week ago

• Bad politicians are slave to public opinion. Good politicians try to change it | Polly Toynbee

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Social scientists now need to take a leaf out of David Nutts book, and speak out on bad policies – yet recognise politics is an art The latest culture clash between politics and science sent a spasm of anger and alarm through every academic discipline. The sacking of Professor David Nutt as head of the Advisory ...
  1 week ago

• Gary McKinnon let down

  
  Mad World — Authority: 121
  Theres a really good piece in the Guardian about the Gary McKinnon case the decision by Alan Johnson to allow him to stand trial in the US.
  1 week ago

• Extradition laws need urgent reform | Henry Porter

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  No one denies that Gary McKinnon did wrong and that he should face criminal proceedings – but in Britain not the United States The coverage of the home secretarys decision to extradite Gary McKinnon to the United States on charges of computer hacking have understandably focused on McKinnons mental state , but ...
  1 week ago

• Gary McKinnon extradition being fast-tracked by Labour to stop Tories reversing it

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Alan Johnson accused of trying to stop a Tory government reversing the extradition of alleged computer hacker Gary McKinnon.
  1 week ago

• Hackers mother calls extradition of son disgusting

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Computer hacker Gary McKinnon said to be at serious risk of suicide after home secretary allows his extradition to the US The mother of computer hacker Gary McKinnon has criticised the home secretarys decision to extradite her son to the US as "disgusting". McKinnon, who has Aspergers syndrome, is said to be at ...
  1 week ago

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