New law on anonimity must not be retrospective

THE Government is right to close the legal loophole which caused a trial to be aborted last week after the Appeal Court ruled that prosecution witnsses could no longer remain anonymous. Anonimity if offered by prosectors in certain sensitive cases...

Anyone but Andy

AT least we are spared the wet knickers brigade screaming "Come on, Tim!" as the great British lawn tennis hope goes down to another defeat at Wimbledon. The British reaction to the two week-tournament baffles me - Wimbledon is but one of four grand...

Olympics "stealing cash from churches"

SOME of the best architectural glories to be found in England are out churches, mostly from the pre-Reformation era and some which date from before the Norman Conquest. But funding for our Established Church, clerics suggest, is being...

Time to clamp down on Felixstowe's anti-social truckers

IF there's one thing that gets me all heated up while driving is container truck overtaking each other on dual carriageways, and taking an age to pass leading to congestion behind them. Lorries should be banned from overtaking lanes. Because...

You are just plain wrong, Mr Davis

DAVID Davis may regard his decision to quit as an MP, and fight a by-election on the growth of our suveillance society, as principled and the best way to put the issue into the public arena, but it was an incredibly stupid and egotistic mistake for...

42 days a small price to pay to defend our liberties

GORDON Brown struggles each week to fend off attacks not only from the Tories, Liberal Democrats, a motley crew of dissident Labour MPs, and the media. But on the thorny issue of 42 detention without charge, he is absolutely right. Locking...

Modern dictator needed to sort out railways

I DON'T really want to become the founder member of the Suffolk and Essex branch of the Mussolini fan club, but it's high time someone took our railways by the scruff of the neck and managed to get our trains running on time, just as Italy did in the...

Call Me Dave sports a new look in Essex

A VERY modern haircut for a very modern leader - Call Me Dave wowed 240 Conservatives at a constituency dinner in Chelmsford last night, sporting a parting straight down the middle. Cost: £10. A bargain indeed in London. If he'd worn a wig or exposed...

Why they started doubting Thomas

IF politicians and journalists are regarded as pond life by the public at large, then spin doctors are the bette noire of scribes who have to suffer the arrogance and bullying of those paid to divert attention away from an often uncomfortable truth....