“The home secretary has said he will back any request from police or local government to ban an Islamic group marching through Wootton Bassett. Alan Johnson said he felt ‘revulsion’ at the thought of Islam4UK’s proposed march through the Wiltshire town”. Now indeed, it is quite offensive that the group is indeed planning on holding [...]
“Dramatic footage obtained by the Guardian shows that the man who died at last week’s G20 protests in London was attacked from behind and thrown to the ground by a baton-wielding police officer in riot gear. Moments after the assault on Ian Tomlinson was captured on video, he suffered a heart attack abdominal haemorrhaging and [...]
“Social networking sites like Facebook could be monitored by the UK government under proposals to make them keep details of users’ contacts. The Home Office said it was needed to tackle crime gangs and terrorists who might use the sites, but said it would not keep the content of conversations”. What’s not mentioned in the [...]
The big internet story over the last few days has been how the Internet Watch Foundation has effectively restricted UK access to Wikipedia by putting it on its blacklist of alleged child pornography hosts, which most UK ISPs subscribe to, on account of it showing a 30-year-old album cover which has been available in shops [...]
“Conservative immigration spokesman Damian Green has been arrested and released on bail in connection with a series of leaks from the Home Office. Police say Mr Green was held on suspicion of ‘conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office’”. Now, of course, there is information which the police have which us in the general [...]
“Ministers have been accused of a ‘massive failure of duty’ after thousands of criminals’ details, stored on a computer memory stick, were lost. The missing device includes un-encrypted details about 10,000 prolific offenders. It also includes the including names, dates of births and some release date of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales – [...]
“Thieves who got away with 3,000 blank passports and visas worth around £2.5 million targeted the van as it stopped at a newsagent’s, police have said. The Foreign Office has admitted a serious breach of security over the loss of the documents”. It’s almost unsporting of me these days to continually be referring to instances [...]