Theresa May on the detention of dissidents carrying state secrets:
I believe that schedule 7 of this act enables the police to do that. It gives them the framework for that.
Oops.
Theresa May on the detention of dissidents carrying state secrets:
I believe that schedule 7 of this act enables the police to do that. It gives them the framework for that.
Oops.
David Miranda was detained under the Terrorism Act that Watson, Cooper and Vaz’s party voted in. If it turns out it is being used to go after journalists and their partners, it won’t take a whistleblower to work out where the blame lies…
As our increasingly indistinguishable political class works to limit the freedom of the press, and the enforcement of politically correct speech codes makes bigger headlines than serious arguments about policy, our space to discuss the issues that matter is shrinking. So much is off limits that there is little sensible left to say.
Uruguay’s proposal to create a government controlled legal marijuana industry has made it halfway through congress, giving President Jose Mujica a long-sought victory in his effort to explore alternatives to the global war on drugs.