If politicians come to believe that the civil service is preoccupied with speaking truth to power at the expense of doing its job, Francis Maude-type solutions will be imposed, regardless of which party is in power.
The British authorities’ apparent willingness to go along with Washington on this is politically and legally disastrous for the UK.
Complying with the request for extradition from the United States would be a blow for press freedom on both sides of the Atlantic
There is a mismatch between Government announcements and Commons realities. It cannot attempt reforms without risking them being amended out of recognition.
“For too long allegations of sexual assault or rape have been rather dismissed…the courts will decide the validity of those claims.”
Plus: Shame on the Conservative whips. And away with Julian Assange: most of us would happily pay his airfare.
Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s difficult, but sometimes, it’s simply wrong for the people of one country – or many – to sit by and watch those of another suffer.
For a certain kind of leftwinger, there’s no bigger blight on the world than the USA. Admittedly, the foreign policy mistakes of successive US administrations have supplied ample grist to the mill of anti-Americanism, but you don’t have to be a neo-con to see that the deep hostility of people like Julian Assange to America's role in […]
Despite an intense barrage targeted at the New Zealand Prime Minister, he has made history.