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Geoffrey Payne

Opinion: The phone hacking scandal is an attack on civil liberties

By Geoffrey Payne | Mon 18th July 2011 - 4:47 pm

Wikipedia defines civil liberties in the following way:

Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights such as the right to life, freedom from torture, freedom from slavery and forced labour, the right to liberty and security, right to a fair trial, the right to defend one’s self, the right to privacy, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, and the right to marry and have a family.

Traditionally when we think about civil liberties we think about how freedom can be taken away from the individual by the state.

So what are we to …

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Mark Pack

What will the political fallout from the peers lobbying scandal be?

By Mark Pack | Sun 1st February 2009 - 1:03 pm

An intriguing report in today’s Sunday Times:

PEERS who avoid tax or have criminal convictions – such as Lord Archer and Lord Black – are to be expelled from the House of Lords in the wake of the lords for hire scandal.

The reforms are being drawn up by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, in an attempt to restore the Lords’ battered reputation after last weekend’s revelations in The Sunday Times. He plans to enact the legislation necessary to expel them before the general election…

Lord Ashcroft, the billionaire Tory donor, has repeatedly refused to confirm his tax status, while Lord Laidlaw,

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    Sorry Bernard, but if you knew anything about cricket you wouldn't call it a ball park.
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    @BernardAris- Harold Wilson was an extremely well respected academic and wartime civil servant. He was also extremely personable. The common market entry was a Tory...