Ali Dizaei found guilty at retrial of framing man in row over money
Jury finds Dizaei guilty of misconduct in public office and attempting to pervert the course of justiceOne of the most senior British police officers ever to be convicted of corruption offences is...
View ArticleUK investigations into torture and rendition – a guide
A series of investigations have sought to get to the bottom of claims that British officials were implicated in abuse of detaineesOperation HintonScotland Yard's investigation into MI5's interrogation...
View ArticleThe rule of law: why Abu Qatada's release matters | Editorial
The case for his deportation from this country is immensely strong but the rule of law must not be tossed asideBarring the jihadist preacher himself, there is probably not a soul in this country who...
View ArticleMonsanto found guilty of chemical poisoning in France
French farmer Paul Francois says he suffered neurological problems after inhaling Monsanto's Lasso weedkillerA French court has declared the US biotech giant Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a...
View ArticleCountry diary: Kingley Vale, West Sussex
Kingley Vale, West Sussex: Their trunks have the appearance of flayed muscle and sinew; buttress roots form shadowy hollows at their base and decaying knots have sculpted their boughsViewed from the...
View ArticleLetters: Bowling bliss
I doubt if the Florida judge's remedy for repairing a marriage by telling the man to take his wife bowling would work in the apparently tranquil setting of English lawn bowls (In praise of … , 13...
View ArticleWhy the Met police and News Corp are turning the heat up on the Sun
The Sun arrests show that this is a situation that's out of News International's control – and it sounds angry and fearfulJust before Christmas Richard Caseby, the managing editor of the Sun, banged...
View ArticleLetters: Doctors dispute the diagnosis for NHS change
I have resigned from general practice as a result of the damaging interference by this government in the running of the NHS which, for the first time since I had qualified in 1984, showed signs of...
View ArticleShaker Aamer, the Briton still locked in Guantánamo, will not be forgotten |...
Ten years since he was incarcerated in Guantánamo Bay, Aamer has been abandoned by successive British governmentsWhen the allied invasion of Afghanistan began in October 2001 with the bombing of Kabul,...
View ArticleLetters: Solidarity campaign to support the people of Greece
The people of Greece face an unprecedented economic and political crisis (Violence grips Athens, 13 February). They are being driven to poverty and mass unemployment by the demands of the so-called...
View ArticleLetters: Arms trade fuels violence in Syria
The daily atrocities unfolding across Syria show the urgent need to control irresponsible and unregulated arms transfers. Away from our TV screens the death toll rises in places such as Democratic...
View ArticleLetter: Release Shaker
For Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, 14 February, marks 10 years of torture and abuse in detention (More detainees contact Met about torture claims, 14 January). It is a very sad...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch hit by feud over Sun arrests
Trevor Kavanagh, associate editor and former political editor, gives voice to the anger emanating from the Sun's newsroomSimmering tensions at Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation burst into the open on...
View ArticleThe re-energised US left has much to teach its dismal European counterparts |...
Moving from retreat to re-tweet, US progressives have linked the personal and political to create a sense of shared purposeIn Europe the city's aflame, but America's Athens, Philadelphia, city of the...
View ArticleIn praise of … praising the one you love | Editorial
More than just a festival of hearts and roses, Valentine's Day serves to remind us what loving someone really meansFor many and varied reasons, the world is divided into those who love saying I love...
View ArticleRangers on precipice as biggest club yet faces shocking bankruptcy
• Portsmouth join the Glasgow club in seeking administration• Both clubs in fight for survival as HMRC pursues tax debtsThe spectre of financial meltdown returned to British football on Monday after...
View ArticleGreece lies bankrupt, humiliated and ablaze: is cradle of democracy finished?
The violence, looting and chaos engulfing the country underlines growing rift between the Greek people and their politiciansGreece got rid of its military dictators in July 1974. But almost four...
View ArticlePakistan politics: contempt for voters | Editorial
Legality of supreme court's move to unseat democratically elected government before its term is highly debatableThe national reconciliation ordinance was a dirty deal, brokered by the Bush...
View ArticleRangers at centre of a tale of two owners, the taxman and odd motives
• Anger is rife at Glasgow club now fighting for survival• Tax debts push Rangers towards the financial abyssThe apparent inevitability of Rangers' impending descent into administration, after months...
View ArticleArsenal and Chelsea may struggle to tame shrewd Serie A teams | Kevin McCarra
The resurgence of Italian clubs in the Champions League has coincided with a blossoming of imaginative coachesIt is peculiar to find that the Serie A sides have an element of surprise in their...
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