Another day, another Tory council planning to charge kids to play
Shamik Das reports on Tory-run Bexley council’s plans to charge kids to use a playground – following on from Tory Wandsworth’s plans to do the same last month.
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Mladic arrives in Rotterdam to face justice at The Hague
Ratko Mladic arrived in the Netherlands this evening to face trial at the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague after judges in Belgrade rejected his appeal against extradition.
Look Left – Serbian President vows to hunt down Mladic’s “protectors”
Serbia’s President Boris Tadic warned today that anyone found to have helped Ratko Mladic evade capture would be hunted down and prosecuted, reports Shamik Das.
Mladic to face justice. Finally. At long, long last
Shamik Das reflects on the capture of Bosnian Serb war crime suspect Ratko Mladic, and looks back at the bloody massacre, the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995.
Healey: “Cameron is a PR man looking for a PR answer”
Shadow health secretary John Healey criticised the prime minister today over the government’s response to its own NHS plans, reports Left Foot Forward’s Shamik Das.
Obama/Cameron love-in comes unstuck over cuts
The splits between President Obama and David Cameron over the scale of their respective deficit reduction plans were exposed at the joint press conference today.
Tories unlikely to discipline Helmer for sickening rape comments
The Conservative party have said there are “no plans” to take action against right-wing MEP Roger Helmer for shocking remarks made on his blog about rape.
MP names Giggs in debate on super injunctions
Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming today named Ryan Giggs in a parliamentary urgent question on super injunctions. He said: “With about 75,000 people already having named Ryan Giggs on Twitter, it’s obviously impracticable to imprison them all, and with reports that Giles Coren alsotest
Look Left – Crisis at the IMF – but who will succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn?
The worlds of politics and economics were rocked this week by the arrest and indictment of the head of the International Monetary Fund on sexual assault charges.
Interviewer: “Rape is rape, with respect”; Ken Clarke: “No it’s not”
Ed Miliband called on David Cameron to sack Ken Clarke today after the justice secretary’s remarks about rape in a BBC radio interview this morning.