The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mother of one of NatWest Three warns programmer wanted on hacking charges "will not survive grave toll of extradition".
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alan Johnson was branded spineless in the Commons yesterday after again refusing to step in to save Gary McKinnon.
Webeufobelievers (Free subscription) | yesterday
The news means that in theory that Mr McKinnon could be sent to America before the new year, if his application in the UK for judicial review is rejected, and he is refused leave to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. Mr McKinnon was this afternoon given until Thursday 10 December to challenge a decision in the High Court by the Home Secretary to ignore fresh medical evidence about Mr
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
Lib Dem shadow home secretary Chris Huhne today tackled Alan Johnson on his decision not to block the extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon, who has Asperger’s, to the USA. (LDV has previously covered the story here). Their exchange in the Commons today is recorded below, and you can read the whole Hansard debate here: Chris [...]
And another thing... (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
ALAN JOHNSON, the Home Secretary, made a statement in the Commons this afternoon in response to an Urgent Question (they used to be known as “Private Notice Questions”) from Gary McKinnon’s MP, David Burrowes. Alan dashed the hopes of campaigners hoping he would intervene in the extradition process. At the risk of boring you all, I [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
Alan Johnson has been accused of being "spineless" for sending a "suicidal and sectionable" British man to face justice in America.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
BRITISH POLICE have been ordered by home secretary Alan Johnson to cut overtime pay bills by a quarter and save hundreds of millions elsewhere from their budgets in an effort to cut costs.
Digital Business World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Home Secretary may give lawyers extra time NASA hacker Gary McKinnon's battle to avoid extradition to the US has been given new hope, after Home Secretary Alan Johnson said he may grant extra time for a judicial review of the case.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Police anger as home secretary Alan Johnson urges £70m cut in overtime The government's policing reforms are failing to make serious progress and officers are spending no more time on the beat now than they were two years ago, the police's "red tape tsar" has said. Jan Berry, the head of the reducing bureaucracy practitioners group, said the introduction of 27,000 handheld computers...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
There is a growing clamour for police reform, but Alan Johnson’s White Paper singularly fails to answer it. No matter how grandly the Home Secretary talks in his foreword of “our vision for policing”, this is little more than an attempt to identify fiscal savings in the cash-strapped years that lie ahead.
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tom Harris (right, pictured with some other bloke) has stood out against the consensus on the Gary McKinnon extradition case. I admire that in a politician. Last week he debunked, mostly successfully, six myths about the case. I was still not convinced that McKinnon should be extradited, because the extradition treaty seemed unequal and was intended for suspected terrorists. Today, Harris delivers...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
It is a notorious fact of life, not confined to whipping boys of the public sector, that what can easily be measured is what gets measured and what is harder to measure tends to be neglected. So deaths from hospital-acquired infections routinely generate headlines while citizens walking round in good health because the NHS has given them high blood pressure pills or tests for bowel cancer do not....
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Officers should patrol alone to help save more than £500 million a year from police budgets, Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, said.
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Refusal to step in branded ’spineless’ Alan Johnson said he may grant Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon extra time to apply for judicial review of his US extradition case, but the home secretary insisted he was powerless to stop the forced transfer.… The power of collaboration within unified communications Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/02/mckinnon_review_extension_mulled/...
The Register (Free subscription) | yesterday
Refusal to step in branded 'spineless' Alan Johnson said he may grant Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon extra time to apply for judicial review of his US extradition case, but the home secretary insisted he was powerless to stop the forced transfer.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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