• Brown made secret offer to Lib Dem peers

  Philip Webster and Greg Hurst Gordon Brown made a secret offer to bring Liberal Democrats into his first Government as ministers...

   

• Police inspector used fingerprinting ‘as excuse to rape’

  By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  Police inspector Marius Strydom, 36, allegedly raped a 36-year-old in the toilets...

   

• Ex-Saudi envoy named in British scandal

  An aerospace company reportedly placed up to $2 billion into accounts held by a key ally of the Bush administration. By Kim...

   

• Brown to seek longer detention without charge

  Tania Branigan Monday June 4, 2007 The Guardian Gordon Brown insisted yesterday that he would not put civil liberties at...

   

• UK ‘politics of fear eroding human rights’

  Nigel Morris Tony Blair’s government has been condemned for exploiting the “politics of fear” by bringing...

   

• Brown won’t pull UK troops out of Iraq: U.S. official

  Sophie Walker Washington is confident British prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown will not pull British troops out of...

   

• UK tries to sabotage BAE bribes inquiry

  Attempt to oust legal expert heading European corruption investigation David Leigh and Rob Evans Tuesday April 24, 2007 The...

   

• UK supermarkets are ‘driving down wages of world’s poorest workers’

  Susie Mesure The low prices enjoyed by shoppers at British supermarkets are paid for by poor wages, job insecurity and a...

   

• The island where Britain has refused to allow democracy

  Inhabitants of a tiny place which served as a crucial base for British forces during the Falklands conflict say the UK government...

   

• Britain must stop acting like an emperor

  George Monbiot The disease that afflicts all British governments is an inability to let go. Unable to accept the end of empire,...

   

• Protests at UK embassy in Tehran

  Petrol bombs and rocks have been thrown at the British embassy in Tehran during a rally supporting the detention of 15 British...

   

• UK headed for prison meltdown

  Duncan Campbell and Alan Travis The former head of the prison service has warned that up to 100,000 people could be in jail...