Issues in here that I can remember being raised at European conferences back around 2000. Why is the wheel constantly being re-invented?

I think I posted the newspaper coverage at the time of the verdict. This is the sentence, and includes some allegations about connections between the heroin importers and the “Croxteth Crew”, a Liverpool street gang.

Meanwhile, down in the South-West, Liverpudlians go on holiday…

Another Liverpool family jailed for drug dealing. Lots of links in this Liverpool Echo story.

Online guidebook for lone wolves and microcells.

Shutting stable door…Horse gone…Why do you have to spy on all of us when you arent even very good at spying on the spies?…All phrases that spring to mind. But lots of links from this article to other sources. If the Chinese can do this, what are the US doing to them??

What we did on our holidays?

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