Thursday, 12 February 2015

The water cannon threat - Politics.co.uk

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"Because of the horrific history of using water hoses during the civil rights era of the 1960s, we just don't use or contemplate using anywhere in America"

Water cannons

Top cop warns Boris Johnson about 'horrific' water cannon

Water cannon: A horrific history

Johnson warned on US trip about use of controversial weapons

Drug law and hung parliament

Hung parliaments could break Labour-Tory stranglehold on drug policy

Support for the reform of drugs laws continues to grow

Support for reform of drugs laws continues to grow

Torture reports

Comment: How the Home Office fails torture survivors

Victims of torture are being failed by the UK detention system

Our safeguards to protect torture victims in detention are barely worth the paper they're written on

Sabotaging debt advice

Coalition law leaves 50,000 without debt advice

The number of individual voluntary arrangements reached its highest level since 2005 in the last quarter of 2014

Ministers are refusing to use cash from payday lender fines to fund charities offering debt advice. Don't they realise this looks bad?

The road to nowhere

Comment: Labour must reject this tunnel-vision on roads

Repeated widening of the M25 motorway has failed to relieve congestion

Christian Wolmar: The future of cities doesn't lie with the car

Scottish land reform proposals would damage fragile rural communities claim sporting and land management organisations

A group of sporting and land management organisations have voiced their concerns over a number of land reform proposals in an open letter to Dr Aileen McLeod, the Minister responsible for Land Reform in Scotland.

Breast Cancer Care responds to review suggesting false cancer alarm discourages future checks

Davinia Green: "It is worrying to hear that some women won’t carry on checking their breasts after a false alarm of breast cancer."

Driverless car road trials could lead to huge societal benefits

Driverless car road trials could lead to huge societal benefits – providing they tackle the big issues: acceptance, liability and safety, says IET.

ASCL, ATL, NAHT, NUT and Voice write to Sec of State and Nick Clegg re workload challenge

Government response to Workload Challenge survey a missed opportunity.

Access to education increasingly on the basis of parents' ability to pay

Children’s access to critical educational opportunities is becoming even more dependent on their parents’ ability to pay, a survey by the NASUWT has revealed.

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