Law in Action is back for a new series on BBC Radio 4. In the first episode, Clive Coleman investigates the issues surrounding the age of criminal responsibility. Unlike most European countries, the age at which a child in the United Kingdom can be prosecuted and convicted of a criminal offence is significantly lower. It's 8 in Scotland and 10 in ( Read more... )

Last November, 80 Stoke City football fans were rounded up by Greater Manchester Police under Section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006. Their crime? A belief that they may cause trouble later. The fans were on their way to watch their team play Manchester United when they stopped at the Railway Inn in Irlam. Although there was no ( Read more... )

We all know politicians make a living out of U-turns. Tune in for about a minute at 3:45 and enjoy. And you realise just how removed the MPs are from the general public. This episode of Have I Got News For You was originally broadcast on 15 May and is on the iPlayer.

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My dad wrote me an email today describing his pain at seeing the images that emerged from Lahore earlier this week. In March 2004 he was in the city to watch the fifth and deciding ODI between India and Pakistan. He described how his friend and him spent hours before the match walking around the area where the attack took place (the big roundabout ( Read more... )

DOWNLOAD: Fitna (w/ English subtitles), 33MB

I've just finished watching Fitna, the fifteen minute video about Islamic extremism put together by Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP who has been denied entry into the UK this morning because of a British Home Secretary ban. Wilders was due to attend a screening of his video at the House of Lords today ( Read more... )

"small explosive shell," 1591, from M.Fr. grenade "pomegranate," from O.Fr. pomegrenate (influenced by Sp. granada), so called because the many-seeded fruit suggested the powder-filled, fragmenting bomb, or from similarities of shape. Grenadiers (1676) originally were soldiers "who were dexterous in flinging hand-granados" [Evelyn], from French ( Read more... )

I didn't sleep well last night. I kept having bad dreams and eventually gave up trying to fall asleep properly. So I got up and looked up the photos my mum sent me of their trip to Mumbai. Five of the ten photos have geographical relevance to this week's tragic events:


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In half-an-hour (1435 BST), BBC Parliament will broadcast the House of Lords LIVE as they vote on the government's anti-terror plan.

EDIT @ 1650 BST:I didn't expect to still be watching the House of Lords proceedings for more than two hours but it's just too good. And now Lord Tebbit is speaking and he supports the legislation. Lord Carlile of ( Read more... )