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Inappropriate use of force brings with it trouble for the officer who transgresses, as it always did except for the fact that such things were rarely captured on cctv or mini videos - but if they ever show the footage of the anti-Vietnam war Grosvenor Square riot in 1968 you’ll see some stick happy police officer who, ultimately, got the sack

Hardly something that should result in the local bobby from an English village being pilloried along with every other officer in the land.

I’m-a-citizen-not-a-criminal says that those police who “just stood and watched their colleagues break the law are equally to blame”. The same goes for protesters.

I actually do have some sympathy with Derek Draper’s argument that this was a private e-mail conversation, but the mistake Draper made was seeking to get down in the gutter and slug it out with the likes of Paul Staines.

The electorate respects conviction politicians, and the labour movement project to build a secure and just, better world is a principled and enduring platform that needs to be restored to the heart of left and centre-left politics.

Obscene, libellous smears are not the same as political tittle tattle.

But if he hadn't done it, someone else would have got there eventually. It's up to all of us now to stop this happening again. some people tell me that blogging is the future of politics. If this is the case, I very much hope it gets more mature with its increasing importance.

We can all agree that censorship is not the route to go down. Therefore all political parties and all press and media outlets have a responsibility to regulate themselves

Paying fair market values for the assets will not work. Only by overpaying for the assets will the banks be adequately recapitalized. But overpaying for the assets simply shifts the losses to the government. In other words, the Geithner plan works only if and when the taxpayer loses big time. Some Americans are afraid that the government might temporarily “nationalize” the banks, but that option would be preferable to the Geithner plan. After all, the F.D.I.C. has taken control of failing banks before, and done it well.

A ban on materials required for their maintenance, including cement, steel and pipes, left them in a state of disrepair.

Israeli bombs hit the already fragile sewage and water treatment systems, causing drinking water and raw sewage to mix across some of the most populated areas of Gaza.

Tank shells hit the strip's largest wastewater plant in the Sheikh Aljeen area of Gaza City, sending sewage cascading directly into neighbourhoods, farms and into the sea.

Rumsfeld's famous hand shake with Saddam provides the proof on tha

Saddam was originally a CIA man recruited to assassinate the previous Iraqi president Abdel-Karim Qassem

his war of aggression against Iran

It usually takes some kind of crisis to get people to participate - CU Conservatorships, Mergers, Scandals? Believe it or not we have not had one comment from any of our members on the corporate controversies. We want a board and management that make the members secure and not have to think about their CUs viability and strength and yet we want involvement. How to get both is the challenge.

Davis said he’s seen credit unions as very open to new ideas. Although some may be stuck in the past, he cited online banking and bill pay as two specific examples where credit unions have led the way. Shell added that while credit unions may be somewhat conservative, considering the current economy and the troubles facing many banks, that conservatism has “probably been a really good thing.”

The pirates showed “quite clearly - and subversively - that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal navy.” This is why they were popular, despite being unproductive thieves.

Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the U.N. envoy to Somalia, tells me: “Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury - you name it.” Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories

European ships have been looting Somalia’s seas of their greatest resource: seafood