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Released from Brixton clink

Released from Brixton clink

"Out already Peter?" came the decidedly resentful tones of Detective Sergeant "Sniffer" of West End Central Crime Squad. "If you wouldn't mind showing me what's in your bag"

In law & reform

Bolivian poppycock

  • By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
  • 06 May

A faux referendum in Bolivia demanding greater autonomy for the Santa Cruz province is nothing more than a modern version of Ian Smith's shortlived minority rule in Southern Rhodesia

Priests' law of death

  • By Martin Markovits and Vincent Bevins
  • 01 May

Observations on Nicaragua and abortion

Does Anyone Mean What They Say?

  • By Martin Bright
  • 30 April

The Prime Minister is losing the argument on 42 days, but Cameron is still unconvincing standing up for our freedoms

Boris Johnson - why vote for me

  • By Boris Johnson
  • 29 April

The Tory candidate for mayor of London explains why you should back him in the election on 1 May

Iraq dossier - watchdog ruling

  • By Chris Ames
  • 24 April

The government is attacked as "dodgy" after a ruling that criticises the way in which author of the September 2002 Iraq dossier has effectively been allowed anonymity

Raped and abandoned

  • By Martin Brookes
  • 23 April

Try to get help when you've been raped in England and Wales and you could be waiting for days, even months. Rape Crisis has proved to be life saving many times over so why not fund it properly?

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Power to the people

Power to the people

South Korea has just held its first jury trial,Japan is planning to reinstate juries next year, Russia is experimenting and even China is toying with the idea. And in Britain?

More in law & reform

Out of control orders

  • By Paul Donovan
  • 17 April 2008

The politics of religion

  • By Mary Warnock
  • 10 April 2008

Wonky women

  • By Richard Reeves
  • 03 April 2008

Citizens don't need Goldsmith's report

  • By Darcus Howe
  • 19 March 2008

Save the Sisters

  • By Aditi Charanji
  • 13 March 2008

A fair trial is not a “brand issue”

  • By Clive Stafford Smith
  • 13 March 2008

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