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Britain was "strongly urged" today to allow prisoners to vote at the general election. Officials at the Council of Europe "reiterated their serious concern" that the government's failure to implement a judgment

In The Times today, Daniel Finkelstein comments on the ever-widening gulf between the voters and the elected. Taking the 'bullying Brown' story as his starting point, and the fact that it seems

Just in case anyone's been reading Private Eye's charming little write-up of the LPO's situation, I'd like to point out the following errors in their report, if you can call it a

Why should we, as is de rigueur, believe the notion that all property is ultimately collective?

Greek mythology is making a welcome comeback in print and on the silver screen

Solicitors acting for retailers have been advised by their regulator not to bring "disproportionate" civil claims action against shoplifters.

A bomb attack outside a German bakery in the Indian city of Pune on Saturday has received remarkably little coverage here in the UK. It killed eight people and injured a further

There is a bone of contention about Chopin: his date of birth. Some say 22 February, others 1 March. This gives carte blanche to the bicentenary celebrations to spend an extended period

Sir Alan Ward, always the most charming and entertaining of appeal judges, is 72 today and seems to be getting demob happy. How else can one explain the glorious flights of rhetoric

Imagine an evil corporation; let us call it Megagreed plc. A worker with a fine and principled record speaks out about its directors associating with men who propagate a criminal ideology that