• Human Rights – tramping on common sense

    Increasingly bizarre court decisions taken under the guise of the European Convention of Human Rights, allowing murderers and rapists to avoid extradition on specious excuses are leading to pressure for reform. The ECHR, agreed after World War 11 by Churchill, Adenauer, Mitterrand and others came into force on 3 September 1953 in part as a defence against Stalinism. Any person who feels their rights have been violated under the convention by a country can take a case to the court. Judgments
  • Grooming gangs – children deserve a childhood ++ Ann Cryer, Maggie Oliver

     UK Home secretary Yvette Cooper has issued an “unequivocal apology” over the failure of the British state to protect young girls from predatory grooming gangs over 16 years, as she confirmed a full national inquiry into the scandal. The recent Casey Inquiry found a large proportion of the perpetrators were men from Asian ethnic backgrounds.  A culture of “blindness, ignorance and prejudice” led to repeated failures over decades to investigate. Asylum seekers an
  • Grooming gangs – children deserve a childhood

     UK Home secretary Yvette Cooper has issued an “unequivocal apology” over the failure of the British state to protect young girls from predatory grooming gangs over 16 years, as she confirmed a full national inquiry into the scandal. The recent Casey Inquiry found a large proportion of the perpetrators were men from Asian ethnic backgrounds.  A culture of “blindness, ignorance and prejudice” led to repeated failures over decades to investigate. Asylum seekers an

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