AIUK REPORT: UN FAILS KOSOVO

War crimes and crimes against humanity from the Kosovo conflict in the late 1990s risk being left unpunished as a result of a failed UN justice mission. Amnesty International’s report describes the failure of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) International Judges and Prosecutors Programme (Programme) to Continue Reading

TRIDENT AND UK’S NPT OBLIGATION…

We are committed to NATO as a nuclear power and there is no prospect of us discontinuing that alliance or of the United States ceasing to provide NATO with its nuclear capability. In those circumstances it makes no sense for us to renew our own national nuclear weapons at enormous Continue Reading

RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT?

Irecently came across this item from another site on Space.Live.Com – it’s from theLibertarian Live space (do feel free to pay this site a visit) "Supposedly, polonium 210 can only be produced in poisoning quantities by a nuclear facility such as would be owned only by a nation state and Continue Reading

COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT: INCREASE OF FUNDING IN 2009

Local authorities in England will benefit from a £2.7bn increase in funding from central government next year, Local Government Minister John Healey confirmed today. SOURCE: GNN

BROWN LAUNCHES WOMEN’S ADVISORY GROUP

The National Muslim Women’s Advisory group (NMWAG) was formally launched today by the Prime Minister. The group attended the Prime Minister’s Eid reception at Downing Street. Source : G.N.N.

HOME OFFICE BCS RELEASED

The Home Office today published more detailed statistics about the nature and extent of violent crime in England and Wales in 2006/07 (March 06 – April 07). They include in-depth police recorded crime figures on homicides and firearm offences and British Crime Survey (BCS) results for intimate violence (partner and Continue Reading