So the National Planning Policy Framework, known in the world of Whitehall acronyms as the NPPF, has now been published and indeed is already in operation. And all those who last summer claimed that it was going to be the end of life as we knew it...
Much of the coverage of the Leveson Inquiry has focussed on phone-hacking. Admittedly some of the stories on this topic which have emerged thus far make for extremely compelling journalism, but they also serve two useful functions from the point of...
The ‘Lemon test’ formulated by Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1971 struck down educational policies in the states of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania on the grounds that they violated the ‘establishment clause’, that part of the First...
One of the most intriguing revelations to emerge from the endlessly twisting and turning Hackgate controversy is that Neville Thurlbeck, former chief crime reporter of the News of the World, arrested on suspicion of illegally hacking into voicemail...
Opponents of war with Iran got a boost the other day from an unlikely source. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper tolda Senate committee, “We do not know … if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons.”
This would...
The biggest con in history — bigger even than Social Security — might well be the one in which statists have conned the poor into believing that the welfare state helps them. If those at the bottom of the economic ladder were ever to realize how...
A growing group of individuals and organizations has designated Saturday, February 4, as a “National Day of Action” aimed at preventing a war against Iran. The manifesto is simple: “No War, No Sanctions, No Intervention, No...
The cost of buildingthe “Y” (the link to Leeds and Manchester) is £33bn. Adding for trains and tax yields £45bn, equivalent to £1,700 for every household in the land, or to £750 per head. The corresponding values for HS2 (the link to...
In his official remarks about the end of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, President Obama told an assembly of troops,
The war in Iraq will soon belong to history. Your service belongs to the ages. Never forget that you are part of an unbroken...
In yet another reversal of his professed commitment to the rule of law, President Obama says he will sign the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which formalizes his authority to imprison terrorism suspects indefinitely without charge or...