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• There is more than cowardice that stands between Labour and regicide | Jonathan Freedland

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  With no clear challenger and no ideological drive to oust Brown, seasonal rumours of a coup are likely to remain just that As if in a seasonal rite, the talk once more in Labour circles is of a coup detat. It was like this in July 2008, again in the autumn of that year, returning in June 2009 with a brief flurry in ...
  8 hours ago

• Anti-gay hate preachers march may be banned

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 692
  An attempt by an anti-gay Muslim preacher to hold a march in a British town may be blocked by home secretary Alan Johnson. Islam4UK, headed by Anjem Choudary, plans to march through Wootton Bassett, a town famous for honouring soldiers killed abroad.
  17 hours ago

• Alan Johnson would back ban on march by Islamic radicals through Wootton Bassett

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Leader of controversial Islamic group, Anjem Choudary has admitted his plan to hold a protest march is a publicity stunt.
  1 day ago

• ‘Seize the Day’, Brown’s Virtual Assassins Urge Mandelson

  
  Tony Blair — Authority: 438
  Original Home Page All Contents of Site – Index All Links to ‘The Trial of Tony Blair’ posts Sign the Ban Blair-baiting petition here . Most recent sig comment: “The Best PM this Country had. Shame on the media.” Comment at end 3rd January, 2010 VIRTUALLY A VIRTUAL PRIME MINISTER It’s in ...
  3 days ago

• Full body scanners to be installed at all British airports

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Dec. 29 (ANI): In the wake of the recent Detroit-bound flight bombing bid, the British Government has decided to install full body scanners at all UK airports. As part of the massive overhaul of airport security, the government planning to spend as much as necessary to buy the X-ray machines, which can see ...
  1 week ago

• Nigerian bomber warns of more terror attacks ’soon’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, Dec. 29 (ANI): The Nigerian-origin bomber, who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, has warned US investigators that “there are more just like me who will strike soon.” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, had earlier claimed connection with Yemen-based al Qaeda, which had supplied him ...
  1 week ago

• Fury as China executes drug smuggler

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Fierce condemnation as last-ditch attempt to prevent death of Akmal Shaikh, 53, fails China was this morning condemned for its human rights record after a British man who, his supporters say, had mental health problems, was executed for smuggling drugs. Akmal Shaikh, 53, was shot dead by a firing squad at 10.30am ...
  1 week ago

• Everything Is Not Copacetic*, Ms. Napolitano Has Realized.

  
  The New Republic - The Spine Feed — Authority: 127
  “Copacetic.” “Fine and dandy,” says the Websters New International . Textured origins can be found in the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang ,  American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and the various Oxfords . Mixed origins, actually, from the black South, Creole French, ...
  1 week ago

• Yemen terror camps attract Britons

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Fears raised that country is becoming stronghold for new generation of al-Qaida-inspired fighters A number of Britons have travelled to Yemen to train at secret terrorist camps, counter-terrorism officials revealed today, raising fears that the country is becoming a stronghold for a new generation of ...
  1 week ago

• Detroit terror attack: al-Qaeda regional group claims responsibility

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  A regional wing of al-Qaeda, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day attack on a US-bound passenger plane involving Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab.
  1 week ago

• Brits Denied Visa Request for Abdulmutallab

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  The New York Times reports on a radio interview with U.K. Home Secretary Alan Johnson: Mr. Johnson said Mr. Abdulmutallab’s application to renew his student visa was rejected in May after officials determined that the academic course he had given as his reason for returning to Britain was bogus. He was then ...
  1 week ago

• Britain Rejected Visa Renewal for Terror Suspect

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 159
  By JOHN F. BURNS The New York Times LONDON — The British government said Monday that it had acted earlier this year to reject a bid for a renewed student visa from the Nigerian man accused in the failed Detroit airliner bombing plot, and that the man was placed on an official watch list to prevent him from ...
  1 week ago

• UK Goes Feral on Legal Highs

  
  Canvassing for Opinion - aka "Blairs Brain on Cannabis" — Authority: 121
  Image via Wikipedia A range of former so called ‘legal highs’ including GBL, BZP and man-made chemicals sprayed on herbal smoking products such as ‘Spice’ are now illegal, Home Secretary Alan Johnson announced today. As part of the government’s commitment to tackle the emerging threat of so called ...
  1 week ago

• GBL And Other ‘legal Highs’ Banned in the U.K.

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  British Home Secretary Alan Johnson has announced that a range of former so called ‘legal highs’ including GBL, BZP and man-made chemicals sprayed on herbal smoking products such as ‘Spice’ are now illegal. As part of the government’s commitment to tackle the emerging threat of so called ‘legal highs’, ...
  1 week ago

• Government accused of encouraging people to report each other for hate crimes

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  The Government has been accused of pursuing a campaign to encourage members of the public to report their neighbours for committing so-called hate crimes.
  1 week ago

• Memo to Gordon: you really need Mandy

  
  David Jones, MP — Authority: 123
  This morning’s Telegraph report that a rift has developed between the Prime Minister and Peter Mandelson comes as little surprise.  It has been very obvious for some weeks that Mandelson deeply disapproves of the strategy of entrenchment that the Prime Minister, together with the likes of Ed Balls, Alan Johnson ...
  1 week ago

• Club drug ban comes into force today

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 692
  From today, legal highs such as GBL, BZP and Spice will become Class C drugs. GBL (gamma-butaryl lactone), which is said to be popular on the gay club scene, is a liquid used in paint stripper and nail varnish remover.
  1 week ago

• Johnson goes to war

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 129
  Alan Johnson had a go at ‘public schoolboy millionaires’ yesterday in the Sunday Times. “The Conservatives are the party of inherited wealth, private education and conspicuous affluence, ” he said. “If they were to win the election, you would have a mayor of London, chancellor of the exchequer and prime ...
  2 weeks ago

• Update: Florence and Precious Mhango.

  
  ModernityBlog — Authority: 485
  Anne McLaughlin has sent out this update: “… Yes they were released this afternoon and put on a train to Glasgow. It seems that their judicial review has been granted but it’s not clear yet if the Home Secretary intervened and dropped the objections or if the high court decided to throw those objections out. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gary McKinnon must answer serious criminal charges, Home Secretary says

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Gary McKinnon, the alleged computer hacker, must answer the serious criminal charges put to him by prosecutors in the United States, Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, has said.
  3 weeks ago

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