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Straw backs re-examining drug laws
Sunday 16 December 2012
The growing calls for a Royal Commission to examine Britain's 40-year-old drug laws were backed today by a former Home Secretary.
We shouldn't let Chief Constable Bettison off the hook on Hillsborough just because he's retiring
Friday 05 October 2012
Our sportswriter, who scooped the country on the Hillsborough cover-up, explores the critical role played by one of the original police inquiry team
Katy Guest: If you work from home, it's safer to keep your clothes on
Sunday 20 May 2012
When 50,000 civil servants were told last week that they should work from home for the duration of the Olympics, I imagine their first thought was how relieved they'll be to avoid all that annoying office etiquette. You know, like when you accidentally catch the eye of a colleague on the Tube platform in the morning and you both realise you're going to have to make small talk with each other all the way to work.
Britain almost agreed to share The Rock with Spain
Tuesday 24 January 2012
The British government came within 24 hours of signing a controversial pact to share the sovereignty of Gibraltar with Spain and end 300 years of conflict over "The Rock".
UK came close to sharing Gibraltar with Spain
Tuesday 24 January 2012
The British Government came within a day of doing a controversial deal to share the sovereignty of Gibraltar with Spain and end 300 years of conflict over "The Rock".
Straw must account for MI6 role in 'rendition'
Friday 13 January 2012
Former ministers in Tony Blair's government are expected to be questioned by police over their alleged role in human rights abuse, in a new Scotland Yard investigation into how dissidents were sent to Libya to be imprisoned and tortured. The focus will be the involvement of MI6 in the arrest and rendition of two men.
Police to question Jack Straw over torture in Libya
Friday 13 January 2012
Ministers must face 'serious allegations' over human rights abuses
Jack Straw attacks injury claims 'racket'
Monday 27 June 2011
Former justice secretary Jack Straw has launched a crusade against insurance companies which sell customers' details to no win, no fee claim firms.
We've heard all we're going to hear. But are we any closer to the truth?
Thursday 03 February 2011
After 14 months of public testimony, Oliver Wright reveals what the Iraq Inquiry has brought to light – and what remains in the dark
Yasmin Alibhai Brown: Jack Straw is right to ask hard questions about Asian men
Monday 10 January 2011
Fear of racism should no longer be the veil covering up hard truths
Straw under fire for linking race to sex attacks
Sunday 09 January 2011
Former home secretary says gangs of Pakistani men see young white girls as 'easy meat'
White girls 'easy meat' to Pakistani men, says Straw
Saturday 08 January 2011
Former home secretary Jack Straw has accused some Pakistani men in Britain of seeing white girls as "easy meat" for sexual abuse.
Jack Straw: Labour must respond to 'squeezed middle'
Tuesday 28 September 2010
Labour will only return to power if it responds to the concerns of middle Britain, shadow justice secretary Jack Straw warned today.
Jack Straw retiring to the backbenches
Friday 06 August 2010
Jack Straw is to step down from frontbench politics after 30 years, he announced today.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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