House of Lords reform and party funding: oral evidence 19 June 2007: Rt Hon Jack Straw, Leader of the House and Lord Privy Seal: Oral Evidence 19 June ... and Lord Privy Seal (House of Commons Papers)
Four stories from today's Independent. Jack Straw's hidden Inquests (Not on the website) A Labour backbench rebellion against Jack Straw's latest attempt to reintroduce secret inquests ( Ed: for the third time ) is in prospect, lead by Andrew Dismore. More strength to their elbow. Down with the despots. Let victims of forced marriage pay their own way home Revealed: Government's 'heartless' treatment...
Police use of cautions and fixedpenalty notices is to be reviewed after concerns that they were allowing violent offenders to avoid appearing in court Jack Straw the Justice Secretary announced yesterday.
Move follows concerns raised by magistrates, the director of public prosecutions and senior police officers A review of the police use of cautions to deal with violent offenders was ordered today by the justice secretary, Jack Straw, after concerns voiced by magistrates, the director of public prosecutions and senior police officers. The announcement was made after it was claimed that up to 40,000...
I am not rejoicing at the return of Old Etonian Simon Mann from jail in Equatorial Guinea. His failed coup attempt was just one of a series of ventures in which a group of upper class public school English former officers worked with former apartheid era forces to try to seize control of mineral resources across Africa. You can find the story of my own involvement with them, the full background and...
Here is my latest recommended reading list. Please note, I do not necessarily agree with these posts and articles, however I found them sufficiently interesting to warrant a recommendation: Jackie Ashley says David Cameron will feel a backlash for his change in EU policy in the future, but also says private polling has Labour worried that they may only win about 120 seats at the next election. David...
Government attempts to override a free speech clause in a homophobic hatred bill illustrate its determination to attack rights "The politically motivated trampling of free speech is something that should concern us all," says a letter in the Times from the Conservative peer Lord Waddington and the Labour MP and former backbencher of the year David Taylor. After a free speech clause was inserted...
It's just the way they are. From the diaries of former Cabinet Minister (and protector of the Birmingham pub bombers' identities) Chris Mullin, serialised in the Mail : January 21, 2004 To the Parliamentary Party, where there was discussion about the next Queen's Speech. Ann Cryer [MP] said we needed a managed immigration policy, based on ability to find jobs; not on finding a wife or husband with...
ChildLine is a service provided by THE NSPCC - and the NSPCC IS A GOVERNMENT SPONSORED CHARITY - WHO FORWAD ANY DETAILS YOU REPORT TO THE SOCIAL WORKERS NEAREST TO YOU - JACK STRAW HEADS THE FAMILY COURTS- WE SUSPECT HIM OF BEING A PEDOPHILE JUST LIKE HIS CONVICTED BROTHER - WIDELY REPORTED- THIS REPORT IS LIES See Coram and CAFCASS - A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS There are REPORTS of women perpetrating...
Just as quick update to last week's Overt overpopulation blogpost, do we now have the Whiff of a smoking gun ? (opens in one-page print mode) Labour's 'open door' immigration policy knowingly risked allowing dangerous people to settle in Britain unchecked, according to documents seen by The Sunday Times. "There is the added difficulty that at least 20 Labour seats, including Jack (Straw’s),...
This is coolbert : "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" - - Shakespeare. The last "dog of war" has been released from prison. Simon Mann. " Friends welcome Simon Mann's release " "Metropolitan Police confirm continuing investigation which could lead to some alleged conspirators in failed Equatorial Guinea coup facing trial in British courts Simon Mann: I'll testify...
The moving of problem prisoners ahead of security audits has happened at a third London jail Dangerous prisoners were removed from one of Britain's biggest jails just before an internal security audit, raising fears that the practice of "ghosting" inmates around the prison system may be more widespread than was acknowledged. A Prison Service investigation is examining how difficult prisoners...
Tomorrow as is my duty I will be on parade for Remembrance Sunday. I will be parading and so will many of the officials of the party in the South West. All arms of service are represented, Royal Navy in Dorset, Marines in Somerset, and Army and RAF in Wiltshire , to name but a few. Things you wont see tomorrow may be poppy selling outside the Muslim Council of Britain HQ or a mosque, and Jack Straw...
On 19 and 20 January 2010 the Court of Appeal will hear the appeal of Davender Kumar Ghai against the prohibition of open air cremation upheld by the High Court in May 2009. It was a case made notorious by the intervention of Justice Secretary Jack Straw, who asserted that indigenous Britishers would be "upset and offended" by funeral pyres and "find it abhorrent that human remains were...
We have a reading about a boat trip and a book about a heroic dog tonight, and then three other, more intriguing events. Martin Limon reads at Seattle Mystery Bookshop from his book G.I. Bones , which is about a ghost , a red-light district, and the army. Also a missing girl. It is fiction. The Central Library is hosting an event from Jack Straw Writers. The Washington Center for the Book co-presents...
A pioneering project dedicated to making London safer by helping young offenders turn their backs on crime was launched this week by Justice Secretary Jack Straw and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. The Heron Unit is the UK’s first dedicated resettlement unit for 15 – 17 year olds who have demonstrated a commitment to changing [...]
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