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A decade ago, Labour swept to power pledging to rebuild the trust between the state and its citizens. So why are our basic freedoms under assault as never before?

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2474442.ece


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Tony Blair has created a "staggering degree of inequality" in Britain, perpetuated a culture of greed and undermined democracy, according to one of those vying to succeed him.

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Police poised to charge Blair's top adviser

THE corruption scandal involving the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has intensified, with police poised to charge some of his advisers. And an embarrassing document has surfaced that reveals Mr Blair's strategy for wooing and "flattering" wealthy donors.

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Labour Party planned to reward donors with Blair meetings

Strategists in the Labour Party planned to give major donors access to Prime Minister Tony Blair, a document published Sunday showed in the latest twist in the "cash-for-honours" row.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070422/wl_uk_afp/britainpoliticscampaignfinance


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"We do not use the phrase 'war on terror' because we can't win by military means alone... this isn't us against one organised enemy with a clear identity and a coherent set of objectives," said an extract from Benn's planned speech.

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This is the first time that Freeh has so openly criticised MI5, which worked closely with the FBI in operations against the IRA while Freeh was FBI director.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2442155.ece


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Independent [UK]

04/04/07

The Government’s anti-terror legislation was dealt a blow yesterday when a judge ruled that restrictions controlling the movements of a man suspected of terrorism had unlawfully deprived him of his liberty. Mr Justice Beatson, sitting at the High Court in London, quashed a control order imposed by the Home Secretary, John Reid, on Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a Palestinian refugee. The Government said it would appeal against the ruling. Abu Rideh is the second terror suspect this year to win a court case against the Government’s anti-terrorism restrictions...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2422645.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

During a training exercise, Air Vice-Marshal David Walker put it to newly qualified pilots that they should think of flying suicide missions in a "worst case scenario" when a terrorist attack was imminent.

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Police officers investigating the cash-for-honours scandal wanted to interview Tony Blair under caution but backed off after being warned that it could lead to his resignation, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

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Independent [UK]

03/13/07

Joy Bowman encouraged her Jamaican sons when they told her they wanted to join the Army in their adoptive country. She watched them flourish as the youngest joined the British Army’s Royal Logistics Corps and saw duty in Basra, while the eldest featured in a recruitment campaign to persuade more people from ethnic minorities to join the Army. But five years after supporting her son during a perilous tour of Iraq, Mrs Bowman and her 15-year-old daughter, who is preparing for GCSEs, face being deported tomorrow — further victims of a Home Office that places its removal targets ahead of the role in British life played by those it is deporting...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2352800.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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A shocking picture of neglect and the appalling treatment of wounded British troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan emerged yesterday in a remarkable series of letters from soldiers' families.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=359&objectid=10428254


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Times Online [UK]

03/04/07

Children aged 11 to 16 are to have their fingerprints taken and stored on a secret database, internal Whitehall documents reveal. The leaked Home Office plans show that the mass fingerprinting will start in 2010, with a batch of 295,000 youngsters who apply for passports. The Home Office expects 545,000 children aged 11 and over to have their prints taken in 2011, with the figure settling at an annual 495,000 from 2014. Their fingerprints will be held on a database also used by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to store the fingerprints of hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers. The plans are outlined in a series of ‘restricted’ documents circulating among officials in the Identity and Passport Service. They form part of the programme for the introduction of new biometric passports and ID cards...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1466943.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp