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Why drown Ken Clarke in this tidal wave of phony anger?
Kenneth Clarke, the justice secretary, went on a radio programme (Victoria Derbyshire's yellfest on 5 Live) to discuss his plan to consult (please note: only to consult) on sentencing for crimes including rape and robbery (among the ideas he wanted to
Updated: 05/21/2011 07:07P
His calamity cabinet must be the despair of David Cameron
Now it was besides itself about the justice secretary as well. To give himself some light relief perhaps, the prime minister went to the Commons to watch Nick Clegg present his ideas about reforming the House of Lords. As soon as Mr Cameron had slipped
Updated: 05/21/2011 07:07P
Twitter and WikiLeaks have made a mockery of the courts
And the papers engaged in processing the material were British (the Guardian), French, Spanish and German as well as American (the New York Times). Put brutally, one national jurisdiction was powerless to ordain what another must do.
Updated: 05/21/2011 07:07P
Twitter and WikiLeaks have made a mockery of the courts
And the papers engaged in processing the material were British (the Guardian), French, Spanish and German as well as American (the New York Times). Put brutally, one national jurisdiction was powerless to ordain what another must do.
Updated: 05/21/2011 07:07P
Powerful interests checkmated growth agency
Yet since its inception in 1986, state officials have mostly regarded the DCA as an essential safeguard against the runaway growth that damaged the state in the 1960s and '70s — the traffic cop pulling over reckless drivers on the highway to Florida's
Updated: 05/21/2011 07:06P
GENEALOGY: Investigating a surprising divorce
My grandmother, who was her daughter-in-law, evidently did not know about the divorce, but said Sarah was a very refined woman who had had a difficult life. Betty Lou Malesky, certified genealogist, is past president of the Green Valley Genealogical
Updated: 05/21/2011 07:06P
Modern technology is beyond control, not out of control
Perhaps it would decide to bloc British traffic, simply to avoid lawsuits, as some US newspapers have done in the past. If Twitter is not deemed liable, perhaps the British Government could block Twitter, as it plans to do with foreign filesharing
Updated: 05/21/2011 07:06P
Modern technology is beyond control, not out of control
Perhaps it would decide to bloc British traffic, simply to avoid lawsuits, as some US newspapers have done in the past. If Twitter is not deemed liable, perhaps the British Government could block Twitter, as it plans to do with foreign filesharing
Updated: 05/21/2011 07:06P
McNally leaves behind a legacy of caring
The center's clients and the community as a whole will miss this tireless advocate for social justice. She is a woman who has had the audacity to suggest that every human life has value. And an equal value, whether an African-American city resident
Updated: 05/21/2011 07:05P
DON'T DISMISS MY RAPE ORDEAL KEN CLARKE
The Justice Secretary also has some outdated attitudes to media management, as he demonstrated last week. Downing Street ordered Mr Clarke to apologise after he implied that some rapes were not serious and referred to violent stranger attacks as
Updated: 05/21/2011 07:04P