New proposals to build a new central database of all mobile phone and internet networking data have already met with fierce opposition across party lines. The system, designed to aid crime investigation and the elimination of terrorist activity, has be...
Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Alice Stanes | Read more »
As part of a series on shift workers, the BBC recently produced an interesting set of photos of a Polish bakery and its team of hardworking migrant workers – interesting not just in its depiction of the finishing touches to savoury cheese twists,...
Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Evan Beswick | Read more »
Whilst there are millions of people in this country who would disagree, Britain is far from being the fair and free country of our collective self-perception – the liberal democratic beacon shining on the rest of the world. In accepting the of...
Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »
Sonya came to Britain from Romania with the promise of work and a place to live. Told by a man in her home country that he would find her and her family jobs where they could earn £400 a week, the prospect of life in Edinburgh seemed all too temp...
Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Miles Johnson | Read more »
