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A controversial EU data-sharing treaty could see police forces across the EU given open access to our DNA database. Police in every member state would have the power to acquire the DNA of potentially innocent Britons as they would be allowed to check crime scene samples against the millions of profiles held in the [...]

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That Lord Lester, QC, should love Strasbourg justice is par for the course: he is a LibDem peer after all, and party loyalty has been known to dim the judgment of better men than him. What is deeply worrying is that he seems to be ignorant of the basics of constitutional law. Oh, I’m [...]

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Last night saw more than 100 MPs attend a meeting for Eurosceptics who want to see Britain’s relationship renegotiated with Brussels. Around 80 MPs were originally expected to attend the largest meeting of its kind but many of the new set of 2010 MPs helped boost numbers.

The meeting itself [...]

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The European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg overturned the British government’s appeal against the Court’s previous ruling on prisoners’ right to vote earlier this week. The appeal, tabled through asking an individual case, of a rapist asking for the right to vote, to be brought in front of the Grand [...]

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With the Middle East in the grip of a struggle to bring democracy to an area sorely lacking in it, attempts to compare the courage of the peaceful demonstrators murdered by the Syrian [...]

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