by Newswire
December 4, 2008 at 10:45 am
Two-year mortgage holiday
Nationwide
The Big Brother state – by stealth
Speaker’s allegations set crisis rolling
Ruling due on DNA database case
The new drug couriers of choice
International
Japan’s obsession with blood groups
Most approve of Obama’s Cabinet picks
Official cites Pakistani training for India attackers
Conservatives expected to split Episcopal Church
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Lee Griffin
Jesse Norman/CiF lays out the case for the government using an outdated method of dealing with the economy, similarly Ela Soyemi wonders if we won’t be praising Angela Merkel in years to come.
Political Betting wonders if Brown’s inability to just give a straight answer will be the undoing of him.
Meral takes the Baby P discussion to the next level.
Steve Cooke laments the lack of control councils have over schools in the modern day.
Dervla Shannahan Hussain/CiF gives her account of being gay and a Muslim.
Amnesty International on the praise for Ireland’s strong principles on the cluster bomb treaty.
That Jesse Norman piece might as well have been sung by his near-namesake for all the sense it made. Not for the first time, the Tories seem incapable of ‘getting’ New Labour beyond an straw figure of The Evil Stalinist Baby-Munchers - as if Thatcherism and neo-liberal economics - and New Labour’s acquiescence to both - never really happened.
S & Marper won their case against the UK, with a unanimous ruling from the 17 judges in the Grand Chamber of the European Court that keeping their samples
“failed to strike a fair balance between the competing public and private interests,” and that the UK government “had overstepped any acceptable margin of appreciation in this regard”.
The court also ruled “the retention in question constituted a disproportionate interference with the applicants’ right to respect for private life and could not be regarded as necessary in a democratic society”. (the BBC)
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