Deceptikons: Liberal Opinion and PoliticsLiberal Opinion & Analysis of British Politics & Current Affairs from a centre-left point of view. Includes articles on Human Rights Issues, Religion and UK Government Policy.Britain complicit in Rendition- June 8, 2006 "The United States has progressively woven a clandestine 'spider's web' of disappearances, secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers - spun with the collaboration or tolerance of Council of Europe member states, including Britain". - That's according to a report by the Council of Europe into Rendition, the US practice of secretly moving terror suspects to detention centres in foreign countries for the purpose of interrogation and allegedly torture.http://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=233.xml Is Ming pandering to Popularism- June 3, 2006 Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Menzies Campbell has outlined new criminal justice proposals in a bid to shed the perception that the Lib-Dems are soft on crime.http://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=232.xml Parliament Square Protest- June 1, 2006 Following an appeal from the home office, a judge recently ruled that section 132 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) now applies to long term peace campaigner Brian Haw, who has been camped in Parliament Square virtually continuously for the past 5 years.http://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=231.xml |