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Brian’s BBC interviews about the Law Lords’ ruling against the admissibility of evidence got by torture can be heard here [More >>>]

A two-part, light-hearted diary of a P&O cruise to the Caribbean in November 2005 [More >>>]

My letter in today’s Guardian seeks to expose the misleading and perverse character of the home secretary’s reaction to the law lords’ ban on torture-tainted evidence [More >>>]

Our prime minister totally misunderstands the dire implications of untrammelled ‘equality of opportunity’ and a meritocratic Britain [More >>>]

An exchange of messages about some linguistic howlers [More >>>>]

Pinter at his most savage, eloquent and quirky in receiving his Nobel prize [More >>>]

Devising unlikely scenarios and finicky definitions to justify torture is a shameful and unacceptable activity [More >>>]

A splendid judgment by the law lords banning the use of torture-derived evidence in UK courts, but imposing a test for determining whether torture has probably been used which in practice can never be satisfied: no wonder the home office is happy! [More >>>]

The Guardian’s daily blog excerpts includes an old item of mine from last August [More >>>>]

Selected pictures from a Caribbean cruise on P&O Aurora, Nov. 2005 [More>>>>]