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UK: Another Surveillance Law: One More Step towards the Big Brother State By Sean Gabb At the beginning of April 2012, the BBC and a couple of newspapers reported that the British Government was considering a new surveillance law. This would allow...

Use of torture since 1948 Torture, the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain upon an individual to extract information or a confession, or as an illicit extrajudicial punishment, is prohibited by international law and is illegal in most...

Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen Lunchtime summary Ed Miliband on the lessons progressives can learn from Trump Afternoon summary 3.38pm GMT Philip Hammond says China and the UK are enjoying a "golden era"...

SO the curtains have fallen on 2016, a year that has been, without a doubt, almost frighteningly colourful. Over the past 12 months, the world has witnessed a number of geopolitically significant events, events that defined the present and that we expect...

From Ian: New York University’s Students for Justice in Palestine Blames Police Shootings of Blacks on Israel The killings this week of African Americans Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by police have sparked soul-searching and protests across...