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DUP accused of corrupting policing negotiations

A US plane named in a rendition inquiry landed in the UK last month and was met by British special forces helicopters

BBC Northern Ireland political editor Mark Devenport's blog

Kim Howells: I backed the war, but the chance looks squandered. Local agencies battling terrorism need the funds being spilt in Helmand

Beatrix Campbell: Media coverage of the latest report on paramilitary activities places undue attention on republican violence

"This morning, we will see the great, unwritten British constitution on display in all its glory - the Sovereign in her Crown and on her Throne, opening her democratically -elected Parliament. "

"The Department for Children, Schools and Families recently changed its mission statement on its website from (my emphasis): "The purpose of the Department for Children, Schools and Families is to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up." to, "The purpose of the Department for Children, Schools and Families is to make this the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up.""

"Blairism, New Labourism, is a rejection, in a fundamental sense, of ideology as the point where you find solutions to your problems. "

"But there is a deeper struggle at the base of this issue - the ownership of public space, which the state is consciously laying claim to in these actions. Photographers are stopped in the name of protecting us all from terrorism but actually this can also be seen to be a territorial incursion. What used to be public space is rapidly becoming "state space", the area owned, patrolled and policed by various agencies of the state, which establish their ownership by totemic tribal markers. I am of course referring to the CCTV camera."

"the broader pattern in the powers endowed to the state by Labour. These I listed as the national DNA database, which despite the unanimous ruling of the European court of human rights retained the genetic profiles of the innocent; the plans to access the data of all communications; Police Forward Intelligence Teams building a database of legitimate protesters; the automatic number plate recognition system covering all major road and tracking "tagged" vehicles; the eBorders scheme that will collect and store information from all journeys across UK borders; the children's databases that prohibit access by parents; the Criminal Records Bureau checks of teenagers helping out at school; and the ID card scheme that will record all the major transaction of a person's life."

"The act, which incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into British law, has created a culture of grievance, unleashed a human rights industry and led to a climate of fear among law enforcement agencies. It has also prevented the government booting out dangerous foreigners. "

David Cameron praised by US for support for Northern Irish devolution