Politics: Law & Reform
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A pragmatic revolution
Bolivian politician René Martinez talks to newstatesman.com about rightwing political violence in Bolivia and Evo Morales's hopes for Obama's presidency
In law & reform
Golden thread, national myth
- By Tom Holland
- 18 December
Those behind the new Labour revolution are beginning to realise that to discard our heritage is also to betray the origins of many of our liberties. The question is how to interpret the meanings of those liberties for modern political life
Their right to liberty
- By Alice O'Keeffe
- 18 December
The NS campaign against holding children in immigration detention centres has gathered powerful support, but reform is still needed
Mystic Mart
- By Martin Bright
- 15 December
I've just been re-reading my predications for 2008. How do you think I did?
Labour's illiberal home secretaries
- By Jeremy Sare
- 15 December
What is it about the office of home secretary that makes perfectly decent politicians turn away from civil liberties in favour of police powers?
Landmine ban failing
- By Samira Shackle
- 11 December
The recent Oslo convention banning landmines marks an important step forward, but it also illustrates the limits of international law
Stalin's lovechild
- By Jonathan Calder
- 08 December
The rozzers enter Westminster without a warrant, help themselves to the contents of an MP’s office and Labour’s leading London politician complains the Mayor has not been supportive enough
Feature
Interview: Rowan Williams
Over the course of a turbulent year the Archbishop of Canterbury had a series of meetings with James Macintyre during which he spoke about sharia law, capitalism, the disestablishment of the Church, and his love of The West Wing
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