Ex-diplomat found in contempt of court over ‘jigsaw identification’ of women who accused former first minister of sexual assaultCraig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, has handed himself into police in Edinburgh as he faces an eight-…
Scottish independence vote will happen if public wants it, says Michael Gove
Gove says referendum will occur if there is ‘a settled will in favour’, as Ian Blackford says voters have already spokenThe UK government would not stand in the way of another vote on Scottish independence if it is the “settled will” of voters, Michael…
Brexit and Covid have created the perfect moment for the politics of crackdown | John Harris
We feel besieged and imperilled, and the Johnson government is seizing the chance to weaken our most fundamental libertiesIf you were wondering when the widely predicted post-Brexit dystopia might move beyond the imaginings of TV scriptwriters and into…
Home Office challenged over ‘sped-up’ removal of Vietnamese nationals
Signs that detainees were victims of trafficking are being overlooked, say campaignersLawyers are challenging the Home Office policy of deporting people to Vietnam who could be victims of trafficking after the UK sent a second charter flight to the cou…
EU citizens who applied to stay in Britain facing threat of deportation
The Home Office appears to be in breach of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, says legal charityEuropean citizens who have applied for settled status are being detained and threatened with deportation, a development that contradicts assurances from minis…
Political journals ring the changes in a battle of ideas – and a fight for readers
Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger’s arrival at Prospect is part of a trend that is raising the stakes of debate in BritainThe battle between Britain’s political magazines has intensified this summer as editorial changes at leading names on the new…
Boris Johnson’s crime strategy was another pile of mud | Stewart Lee
The PM’s talk of ‘fluorescent-jacketed chain gangs’ had a similar effect to that of a misfiring new Oxford Street attractionEarlier this week a pile of mud was dumped at the west end of Oxford Street. Then some squares of grass were stuck on the mud. T…
The Observer view on the Royal Navy’s operation in the South China Sea | Observer editorial
Sailing into imperial delusions is no way to run foreign policyWhat would Jack Aubrey have made of it? When Patrick O’Brian’s fictitious Royal Navy hero sailed HMS Surprise to the far side of the world, the enemy was the USS Norfolk, a lone American fr…
ジュリアン・アサンジ氏のエクアドル市民権、無効と判断される
エクアドルの裁判所がジュリアン・アサンジ氏のエクアドル市民権を無効と判断したそうだ(AP News の記事、 The Register の記事、 NPR の記事、 France 24 の記事)。
アサンジ氏はスウェーデンでの性的暴行容疑などにより、英国・ロンドンで 2010 年に逮捕された。しかし、保釈中の 2012 年に政治亡命を求めロンドンのエクアドル大使館に入り、2019 年 4 月に再び逮捕されるまで滞在することになる。この間に複数の容疑は時効を迎えたが、英警察はアサンジ氏が大使館の外に出…
Discounts from Uber and Deliveroo will lure young people in UK to get Covid jab
Companies will offer credit and price reductions in government push to boost vaccination ratesCheap taxi rides and discounts from the biggest takeaway companies are to be deployed by the government in a desperate effort to boost Covid vaccination rates…