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Jeremy Bamber among Britain’s most notorious murderers to challenge whole-life sentences in European courts
Monday 08 July 2013
Victory for the family killer, Peter Moore and Douglas Vinter could lead to further calls from right wingers to distance the country from Strasbourg
Emilio Colombo
Friday 05 July 2013
Further to Rupert Cornwell's obituary of Emilio Colombo (4 July), early in 1976 as prime minister of Italy – flanked by his friend Aldo Moro, then foreign secretary and soon to be brutally murdered by terrorists – Colombo came to a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party to beg us to send a delegation to the indirectly elected European Parliament, writes Tam Dalyell. Later, as president of that body, he developed excellent relations with the leader of the British Labour delegation, the former foreign secretary Michael Stewart, and with James Scott-Hopkins, who led the Conservatives.
European Court of Human Rights rejects Christians' cases that their religious rights were violated by employers
Tuesday 28 May 2013
Three British Christians who claimed their religious rights were violated by employers were told by European judges today that they could take their rejected cases no further.
93-year-old former serviceman loses ruling on expats voting in UK elections
Tuesday 07 May 2013
Voting rights expire after 15 years for British citizens living abroad
Animal rights group defeated in move that would have opened up paid UK political advertising
Monday 22 April 2013
An animal rights group has narrowly lost an attempt to open up paid political advertising in the UK.
Home Secretary Theresa May discloses that radical preacher Abu Qatada could be prosecuted in Britain
Thursday 18 April 2013
Theresa May intensified her attack on European judges today for blocking Abu Qatada's deportation to Jordan as she disclosed that the radical preacher could be prosecuted in Britain.
Andy McSmith's Diary: From plebgate to PR adviser, it’s all in a £3,000 day’s work
Tuesday 16 April 2013
Andrew Mitchell, the former Chief Whip, has found a lucrative new way to fill his time now that he is no longer burdened with the responsibilities of government.
David Cameron and Theresa May have clashed with the ECHR, but tying the hands of governments is essential for a healthy democracy
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Constraints on governments prevent them for their worst excesses
Hollande calls on European Central Bank to bring down value of single currency
Tuesday 05 February 2013
François Hollande has exacerbated fears that the world is slipping into a dangerous bout of currency wars by suggesting that the European Central Bank intervene to bring down the value of the euro.
Editorial: Strasbourg performs a double service for us
Tuesday 15 January 2013
Ms Eweida's victory will make life a bit more difficult for Britain's critics of the ECHR
The Last Word: Supporting a second smaller club could be just the ticket
Sunday 13 January 2013
Forget the Cissé perfume that costs less than entry to Arsenal and smell proper football again
Kurdish activists killed in Paris were shot in head as mystery of executions grows
Saturday 12 January 2013
Police investigate theory that Kurdish women shot in the head brought killers to their offices
Case dismissed: islanders 'waived' claim to Chagos
Friday 21 December 2012
A group of islanders “callously and shamefully” evicted from their homeland by Britain received a bitter blow yesterday in their marathon legal battle for the right to return when judges in Strasbourg rejected their case.
The Bill of Rights Commission Report reflects the muddled Tory stance on Europe
Tuesday 18 December 2012
Pushing through this new legislation will be costly, contentious and ultimately a waste of time
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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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