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Exclusive: A senior county court judge condemns the treatment of a West African torture victim by the Home Office as “outrageous”, “unforgivable”, and “unlawful”.
Jon Snow
There’s a dramatic Gulf developing between scientists and politicians about cannabis. Today in Birmingham, one of Britain’s most respected drugs researchers, Roger Pertwee, Professor of Neuropharmacology at the University of Aberdeen, is advocating the wholesale decriminalisation of cannabis. In a speech to the British Science association he is saying that present policy is causing more…
Exclusive: Probation Service chiefs in England and Wales have issued a clear warning, in a Channel 4 News survey, over their capacity to protect the public if the government goes ahead with plans.
As another coalition minister reveals he is gay, Channel 4 News speaks to former government equalities commissioner and now head of Stonewall, Ben Summerskill, about being gay in politics.
Jon Snow
I spent Sunday in the Solent on a boat sailed by my cousin Peter. A good wind in our sails, choppy seas, and glorious unbroken sunshine as we sped past the glistening white Needles. There was hardly another boat in sight. I wondered why, and suddenly remembered the Men’s Final at Wimbledon was on. Must…
Former Helmand commander Andrew Mackay and Operation Snakebite author Stephen Grey set out 10 key points for future strategy for British forces in Afghanistan.
FactCheck checks it out FactCheck thought we had a hard day yesterday working on the Labour Manifesto but when 120 pages of the Conservative manifesto dropped in our inboxes we stopped what we were doing and got to work. The analysis “And we will raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m to help millions of people who…
Against a backdrop of growing diplomatic tensions, the nuclear question and increasing reports of human rights abuse, Iran marked the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution in February 2010.
The full interview with a former member of the Iranian Basij militia, who describes his mistreatment in jail for refusing to assault opposition protesters.
Exclusive: a controversial scheme to deal with some of the country’s most dangerous offenders, such as Michael Stone, could be dropped due to limited success. Andy Davies reports.
Here’s an African love story. Adebe married her childhood sweetheart, Daniel, in Addis Ababa when she was 22. The trouble was, although Daniel was born in Ethiopia, he was of Eritrean stock, and when the two countries went to war, he was deported to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, where he was forced to join the…
The Iranian government would have us believe that the opposition is dying, suppressed out of all existence. Since mid July it’s been pretty much impossible for large crowds to gather – every time they do, basiij militia come out to beat people up or arrest them. The opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi said he had evidence…
WASHINGTON DC, USA – There are lots of questions that lots of people would like to ask former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But right now the only “known known” is that he is not answering any. Unlike his old mate, the former vice president Dick Cheney, who is far more visible and far more vocal…
WASHINGTON DC, USA – In a couple of hours the new CIA director will be sworn in – the heavy-jowled Leon Panetta who used to be Bill Clinton’s chief of staff. His appointment was meant to send the message loud and clear that the CIA and America had radically changed since Obama himself was sworn in.…
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – It’s hard to either feel safe or scared most of the time in Kabul. Part of the city wants to be like Baghdad; security companies whisk people back and forth from the airport, HESCO barriers line some roads, and large chunks of the government and Nato apparatus are concealed behind barbed wire…