A Conservative's blog

Police in Manchester, Liverpool and other parts of the north west have, it appears, carried out a successful operation to arrest a group of ...

The government admits defeat on 42 days, but wants to keep a bill in its back pocket to bring out at a moments notice to blackmail parliamen...

Police in Portsmouth have tried to use the 2000 Terrorism act to cover up their own criminal breach of motoring laws. A passer by noticed a ...

Gordon Brown has tried to insist that the government did not buy the 42 day vote. The problem is that no one believes him at all, not even a...

The deputy leader of the MDC, Tendai Biti was arrested at Harare airport on Thursday, and has been held without access to his lawyers since....

David Davis has just resigned as an MP over the horrific erosion of our liberties that has gone on since this nasty Labour government got in...

The DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) saved Gordon Brown's skin today by backing the 42 day terror detention vote, which the government on...

The vote on the terrorism part of the terrorism bill allowing detention without charge will be held tonight. Apparently it will be close. Th...

Well, we heard the other day that Jacqui Smith admitted that MI5 had not asked for 42 days, and now several senior policemen have also come ...

You do have to wonder don't you. It used to be that people could only be held for 24 hours, then for terrorism it was extended to someth...

I listened with some shock and amusement to Jacqui Smith, alleged Home Secretary on BBC Radio 4's Today program talking about extending ...

Gordon Brown announced that there would be a new border control force, which would have been the adoption of Conservative (and also Liberal ...

The verdict in the case of the hapless 21st of July 2005 bombers came in today, and some reporting restrictions have been lifted. ( The BBC ...

I regularly read Dizzy Thinks , who had this article linking to this article in the Daily Mail (well, it could have been the Mail on Sunda...

So when you blog or pass on any information remember this. During the second World War there were campaigns to get people not to repeat impo...

I have often criticised the language used in the somewhat laughably named "War on Terror" and terms like Islamo fascist. In this a...

There is an interesting piece in today's Observer written by Hassan Butt, and ex jihadi, here . It makes interesting reading.

It seems that most of the ideas (apart from the change to detention without charge) that Gordon Brown came up with when he made his great pr...

You have to laugh. Many will remember the controversy over the proposed stop and question powers leaked to the Sunday papers and indeed the ...

I wrote this article on Gordon's Brown's comments on getting tough on terror on Sunday, in part based on information Iain Dale had ...