Sign a petition for removing the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood in the UK(And, one would assume, removing the ban for women who have had sex with gay or bisexual men ( Read more... )

Home Office proposes calls to police on new non-emergency number cost flat-rate of 10p

If the plan of making citizens pay to report low-level crime to the 101 number occurs, I expect recorded instances will be at an all-time low. Not that having lower crime figures would be beneficial to Home Secretary Charles Clarke, of course.

From thevirginqueen:

MI6 launches first website to recruit spies, linguists and administrative employees

The website for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) is here.

Unfortunately, their (and MI5's) nationality requirement -- having at least one parent who is a British national -- means this is not a career option for me. Sure, I know what I want to do ( Read more... )

Today is the ninety-fourth anniversary of the passing of the Parliament Act 1911 receiving Royal Assent. The preamble of the act states “it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into ( Read more... )

Robin Cook, the Scottish MP and former Cabinet minister, died shortly after collapsing suddenly last night whilst hillwalking with his wife in the Highlands ( Read more... )

I suspected very quickly that the shooting which took place in London on Friday outside of Stockwell Station was a massive mistake. Something seemed off about how it went down and the media reports about it. Sure, he ran from the police, but people run from cops for any number of reasons -- possession of drugs, carrying a knife, etc. He may have ( Read more... )

From Informed Consent via mmaestro:

The question is whether Bush played politics with terror around the time of the Democratic National Convention in late July, 2004. Jim Lobe reminded us at the time that ' The New Republic weekly quoted Pakistani intelligence officials as saying the White House had asked them to announce the arrest or killing of any " ( Read more... )