Alex Thomson
‘We in the police got it wrong’: PCC Alan Billings on Hillsborough
Alan Billings cannot deny that with Orgreave, Hillsborough and Rotherham, the force he is paid to hold to account has some unique accounting to do.
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Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson
Saving terrified migrants’ lives at sea
Now at night, in hopelessly overloaded craft, they are pointed at destiny or death in the pitch-black moonless nights and heavy cloud of this week.
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Alex Thomson
The Anglican Church’s issues with sexuality
Canterbury thinks it may, hopes it may, have seen off a schism. The Africans are sending rather different signals.
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Alex Thomson
To many, Obama is ‘assaulting the values of the Founding Fathers’
Obama, to European eyes, is merely tinkering with the small print, the very edges of ingrained national violence which produces stats a minor civil war would be familiar with.
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Alex Thomson
Two floods in five days in Lake District village of Glenridding
Despite facing new torrents of flood water through their main street last night, residents of Glenridding say everyone is helping each other and others are worse off than them.
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Alex Thomson
Tommy Robinson is back – but what’s changed?
EDL founder Tommy Robinson says he’s launching a new anti-radical Islamic movement in the UK. But policies? Ideas? Not much in evidence at all.
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Alex Thomson
Security clampdown in Brussels extended
The country where many of the Paris attack suspects came from faces real disruption for days and months to come.
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Alex Thomson
Toxic white asbestos found in Calais ‘Jungle’ camp
Thousands of migrants in the “Jungle II” camp in Calais have a new danger to contend with: potentially carcinogenic white asbestos.
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Alex Thomson
The farmer who has become a focal point for Scottish land reform
When Andrew Stoddart broke down as he was asked about the effect all this is having on his young family, the reality of unsafe leases to farmers in Scotland was painful and direct.
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Alex Thomson
Rangers cheated at football: the fraudulent silverware must go
After the biggest organised cheating scandal in the history of Scottish football, the former Rangers owners now face at last paying the British state the tax and NI they dodged for all those years.
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: what happens now after court decision?
HMRC is adamant there is money in there to be had and the court now says the state is owed what will be a substantial sum – barring any appeal process, of course.
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Alex Thomson
Big Sport: let the crowds make the noise, not Blastmusic
All Big Sport seems hellbent on killing the occasion by deadening the atmosphere with Blastmusic whenever they can.
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Alex Thomson
Who owns Scotland? Not exactly feudal, but pretty weird
The SNP promised radical reform of land ownership in Scotland, a country where fewer than 500 people own more than half of all private land.
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Alex Thomson
Greg Miskiw: ‘the Prince of Darkness’ of phone hacking
‘I didn’t bring down the News of the World. The News of the World brought itself down. News International brought itself down by reacting the way they did.’
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Alex Thomson
Kunduz: a military, strategic and political disaster
The Taliban takeover of Kunduz is proof the Afghan National Army cannot manage alone despite the billions of dollars the west throws at it.