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Changing the rules*

  • 09 April 2007
  • 2 comments

Who is monitoring your frocks - and why? How far can you go in a "passive smoking situation"? Let the New Statesman's legal expert solve your civil liberties dilemmas

It could have been me

  • 26 March 2007
  • 12 comments

It's been 40 years since homosexuality was decriminalised in Britain, yet around the world gay people still suffer abuse and discrimination because of their sexuality In association with Amnesty International

A backward system of justice

  • 12 March 2007
  • 7 comments

The US is supposed to have barred execution for the mentally retarded. So why is Howard Neal still on death row after 25 years?

Changing the rules

  • 05 March 2007

Is demonstrating in London really banned? Should I boil or bury my bunny? Let the New Statesman's legal expert solve your civil liberties dilemmas

It could have been me

  • 26 February 2007

The Archbishop of Canterbury reveals the plight of fellow Christian leader Samba Momesori, imprisoned for life without trial in Equatorial Guinea

Changing the rules*

  • 12 February 2007

Shouldn't the Trident plans be illegal? Where will a smoker be able to fume in comfort? Let the New Statesman's legal expert solve your civil liberties dilemmas

The deepest pain of all

  • 05 February 2007

Mourning the death of my own father, I felt an aching parallel between the predicament of client and lawyer. Ultimately, though, the prisoners' pain was greater

It could have been me

  • 29 January 2007

Bodyshop founder Anita Roddick, who has died aged 64, wrote a number of articles for the NS. Earlier this year she wrote in support of Rebiya Kadeer in our human rights pages.

Changing the rules*

  • 15 January 2007

Is it ever OK to bribe a foreigner? Can I get a place on one of Tony Blair's people's panels? Let the New Statesman's legal expert solve your civil liberties dilemmas

Wanted: a new world champion

  • 18 December 2006

How can the US condemn torture in Argentina, political murders in Russia and censorship in North Korea when it promotes "kangaroo courts" at Guantanamo Bay?

Gaby Hinsliff

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Mehdi Hasan

The Ashcroft scandal

Paying the price for Ashcroft’s millions

US Politics

Obama's henchmen

Dysfunction at the White House

John Pilger

The Murdoch empire

Welcome to the first murdochracy

James Macintyre

Inside “Next Labour”

Inside “Next Labour”

Film review

Shutter Island

Shutter Island (15)

Interview

Terry Eagleton

The Books Interview: Terry Eagleton

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