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Brussels says churches must lift ban on employing homosexuals

The government is being forced by the European commission to rip up controversial exemptions that allow church bodies to refuse to employ homosexual staff. It has emerged that the commission wrote to the government last week raising concerns that the ...

From JAMIE DOWARD, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Peter Tatchell

Taxpayers in £481m police pension top-up

The taxpayer is having to bail out the police pension fund with almost half a billion pounds a year, it has emerged. The shortfall has raised fresh questions about the long term viability of public sector pensions – and the public's appetite for ...

From JAMIE DOWARD, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Home Office,  David Hanson

Security 'cover-up' at nuclear plants

The government is refusing to provide details on five separate security breaches at Britain's nuclear power stations last year. The breaches have prompted accusations that ministers are suppressing damaging information at a time when they are ...

From JAMIE DOWARD, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Ed Miliband,  MI5,  Dai Davies (politician),  David Kidney

Methadone 'makes addicts of prisoners'

Britain's prison system churns out thousands of prisoners addicted to methadone, according to a thinktank with close links to the Tories. The Centre for Policy Studies claims that many inmates on the heroin substitute have little chance of being weaned ...

From JAMIE DOWARD, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  Department of Health,  Prison Service,  Ministry of Justice

Michael Palin's hand of friendship gives asylum seekers a human face

They make for an odd couple. One is an epoch-defining comedian, not to mention a popular explorer and best-selling author who is fast approaching heritage-listed status. The other is a near-anonymous Somali refugee who fled his war-ravaged country and ...

From JAMIE DOWARD, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Palin,  Home Office

Sir John Chilcot 'wrong man to head Iraq invasion inquiry'

A former senior government adviser on Iraq today accuses ministers of ignoring a series of opportunities to avert war in the months leading up to the conflict. But Carne Ross, the UK's former Iraq expert on the UN security council, has said he fears ...

From JAMIE DOWARD, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Saddam Hussein,  Tony Blair

Authorities back down over UK drug users on benefits

Plans to order drug users who are on benefits into treatment have been dropped after overwhelming opposition from medical and legal experts. The government's welfare reform bill would have given Jobcentre staff powers to "order" benefit claimants to ...

From JAMIE DOWARD, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: James Purnell,  Yvette Cooper

Warning of extra heart dangers from mixing cocaine and alcohol

"I first took coke when I was 18 and at university. I remember two friends who did chemistry told me I should get really drunk first because it would mix into this new chemical in my blood and make me even higher," a 30-year-old woman who works in ...

From JAMIE DOWARD, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Liberal Democrats,  University of California

Bid to block paedophiles from Facebook fails

Government plans to block paedophiles from using social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been shelved because of fears that such a move would breach human rights laws. The Home Office announced in April that it was taking steps to ...

From JAMIE DOWARD, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Home Office

Ghosting: prisoner removal before inspections spreads to Brixton

Brixton prison, from which dangerous inamets were 'ghosted' away. Photograph: Martin Godwin Dangerous prisoners were removed from one of Britain's biggest jails just before an internal security audit, raising fears that the practice of "ghosting" ...

From JAMIE DOWARD, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Prison Service,  Jack Straw,  Dominic Grieve,  Ministry of Justice

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