section 44 powers. Well, surprise, surprise, use against blacks rose 322%, use against Asians rose 277% and whites 185%…When you think stop and search was already used disproportionately against the black community, you can see this is about harassment, not counter-terrorism….and Asians will include Chinese, of course….and in the previous post, we learned just how … POLICE TO SEVERELY CURTAIL USE OF STOP AND SEARCH POWERS

Former Conservative candidate Raja Khan and associates. He has since been expelled from the party.

Apparently the Sunday Times alleged that despite the Home Secretary’s scrapping of plans for a centralised database, GCHQ was forging ahead with plans to monitor all communications.

Note that the detailed proposals arent in the public domain yet. This is pre-announcement spin.

Link is to the report, but there is a wealth of statistical data elsewhere on this site. if you ever wanted to know something about new Zealand, here’s the opportunity. “A rich source of data” It says!

Useful links to a couple of other articles. Not guilty of helping 7/7 bombers, but two of them convicted of conspiracy to attend a place used for terrorist training.

Included because article has some estimates of revenue in it. Murdoch Press will sensationalise it tomorrow, I expect!

“We’re the spikier version of climate rush”…one of those quotes that has to be here to stay! Apparently Tesco’s was offering air miles for energy efficient light bulbs…who runs their marketing department? Jeremy Clarkson?

Sort of book review of “How to Break a Terrorist”. Applying police interview techniques rather than sadistic spook methods. Its an interesting article, suggesting that torture is counter-productive in many different ways.

Quote from CEO of McAfee, via the Murdoch Times. The article admits that the purpose of the conference is to get us all to buy antivirus software. Bit short on analysis, but thats journalism, folks!