With budgets under pressure, it’s politically easier to take CCTV cameras of our streets than police officers.
“If Ministers refuse to give evidence to my committee, that itself would imply that they have something to hide.”
There are no slick solutions when it comes to meeting the challenge of ISIS. But here’s what can and should be done.
And it won’t even work in its own terms. What on earth is a Conservative-led Government doing in introducing such half-baked proposals?
As the Autumn Statement looms, it is time to ask whether the worst policies of a future Labour Government would have our fingerprints on them.
It used to be Laws versus Gove. Now it’s Hughes versus Grayling, or perhaps even Featherstone versus May.
The Government should not duck the security challenge.
The heart of the matter is the suggestion that innocent British citizens should be extradited so that foreign criminal suspects can also be.
The Home Secretary has reformed it to make it fit for purpose. With these changes now in effect, the EAW should be an important part of the police’s armoury.
Attempts to create a strong, Islamic, national voice against extremism have produced many talking heads but no massed voice.
More freedom. Strong families. New jobs. More giving. This year’s Prosperity Index from the Legatum Institute is a rebuke to the doomsters and gloomsters.
Snooping, and the fear of it, threaten the future potential of digital advances.
When we use the law to protect people from being offended, we raise their tender feelings over the essential freedoms of others.
The 2010 candidate offers his newly-selected successor, Chamali Fernando, some tips.
Reading the Counter-Terrorism Bill led me to reflect on why my reaction to it is so different from those other Muslims whom I encounter complaining about it.