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Mar 31 2009 10:57AM
'Is this the start of our troubles?'

(continued from 'How do we respond to a time of threat? Lawfully.' ) Dame Nuala O'Loan is a solicitor and former law lecturer and was Northern Ireland's first Police Ombudsman from 1999 to 2007. She is the Irish government's special...

Mar 30 2009 11:22PM
Unreported World: honour killings in Turkey

Last Friday Unreported World on Channel Four took the viewer to Turkey, to investigate why women are being killed to defend the honour of their husbands. Reporter, Ramita Navai, sensitively probed into this deeply rooted custom and...

Mar 30 2009 8:57PM
'How do we respond to a time of threat? Lawfully.'

Policing and oversight at times of threat – how to respond (report continued from: Omagh: 'You can kill 31 people and get away with it' ) Chaired by Margaret Ritchie MLA, this was the second of three sessions presented at the SDLP...

Mar 30 2009 4:13PM
Beware Greeks bearing truncheons

As our office is situated just up the road from Liverpool Street, I’ve been following reports predicting that it’s going to ‘kick off’ in the City during this week’s G20 meeting with considerable (self) interest. And if the Met really...

Mar 30 2009 2:38PM
BIG BROTHER...

I found the following article published yesterday by The Observer quite interesting. The author highlights a a new survey that has uncovered the extent to which the UK government is operating outside the law with regards to collecting...