LANE: What is Government Actually For?
The UK govt argues that, for the greater good, juries should be largely abolished. Is the Star Chamber compatible with good government?

The UK govt argues that, for the greater good, juries should be largely abolished. Is the Star Chamber compatible with good government?

Reform launches campaign day after Reeves published budget, with Farage warning of a crisis so great it could collapse the government.

An Afghan migrant male has pleaded guilty to one count of rape of a child under 13 ahead of trial which triggered local protests.

Jurors told to put political views aside as they heard evidence on a raid on a factory where a female police sergeant had her back broken.

To present a credible deterrence against Russian aggression in Europe, France’s civilians must be “prepared to accept losing its children”.

UK changing border rules, with some who came in ‘Boriswave’ facing a 30-year wait to get Leave to Remain, but others will be fast-tracked.

“Doubts exist” whether UK prepared to defend acts of war and “grey zone” hybrid attacks, while work to rectify situation “glacial”.

The air forces of several NATO states were scrambled overnight to protect the airspace of the alliance along its eastern border.

Poland closes Russian consulate in response to a “false flag… act of state terrorism” which saw a strategic railway bombed by saboteurs.

Poland’s PM say security services identified two suspects they say are behind the attempted bombing of a freight train within NATO territory.

Shouts of “down with communism” attempted to drown out proceedings as the house voted to elect a new speaker.

Farage responded to the UK’s left-wing govt conceding action needed on illegal immigration by immediately pulling the Overton Window further.

An “act of sabotage” thought to be attempting to blow up a passing train on a “strategic railway” in NATO territory is being investigated.

The UK’s left-wing govt will fail to make meaningful change as it’s own lawmakers will stand in its way, predicted Nigel Farage.

The British government will announce measures to tackle the so-called ‘Boriswave’ of migrants, vindicating the right-wing commentariat.

Polling finds Britons are among the most dissatisfied with ‘progress’. Majority say they believe people were happier and safer last century.

UK GDP rose just 0.1 per cent in the last quarter, less than expected, with the largest cyber attack in British history blamed by the govt.

Professionals and neighbours didn’t speak before a child was murdered by her Pakistani family because they feared the “racist” label.

Hundreds of young children referred to the UK government’s counter-extremism programme before they’ve even had a chance to start school.

UK govt has consent of its people to engage in a massive programme of deportations, if it were inclined to do so, polling has found.

UK govt once again sides with human rights lawyer maximalism over national security, suspending U.S. intel sharing over Trump drug strikes.

Euro states once occupied by the Soviet Union are controlled as pawns by British puppet-masters who don’t care for them, Moscow claims.

While Nigel Farage’s Reform UK rides high in the polls and research shows Britons want major change on migration, the PM has hit back.

Nine recently-retired generals including heads of the British military and top NATO commanders made an extraordinary intervention.

BBC given until Friday to take action over “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory” speech or else face legal action for $1bn.

Nicolas Sarkozy has been released, with critics of the incarceration stating it was only ever meant as a lawfare humiliation ritual.

Brexit’s Nigel Farage slammed the age of “global corporatism” where the lobbying power of big business allows them to dominate government.

The BBC, which justifies its existence on quality and impartiality, is dishonest and antidemocratic, Trump says, as senior executives resign.

Vast majority believe the country is “divided”, with many saying they want “my country to be the way it used to be”, says study.

A centenarian Navy veteran took full advantage of being on live TV to express his sorrow at the state of modern Britain.

Austrian police captured a Hamas weapons cache smuggled and hidden for use in terrorist attacks against “Jewish” targets.

A former NATO Sec Gen warns unless there is “major change of strategy” in favour of giving more support Ukraine risks becoming “forever war”.

A BBC News presenter has been upbraided for rolling her eyes while reading the phrase “pregnant people” from a teleprompter.

Putin discussed what Russia would have to do to perform a nuclear test at short notice during a meeting of his Security Council in Moscow.

Foreign nationals are three times more likely to be accused of a crime against life than a German citizen, and deportees even more than that.

The number of Ukrainian refugees who see Germany as a permanent home rather than temporary place of shelter continues to rise.

Pedestrians and a cyclist were deliberately run down by a motorist said by police to have cried “Allahu Akhbar”.

One person has died and another was seriously injured by the collapse of considerable parts of the 13th century Torre dei Conti.

Veteran street organiser Tommy Robinson acquitted of terrorism charge over refusing to give police the access code to his mobile phone.

Police investigating whether man they arrested over the mass stabbing aboard a high speed train may have been behind several other incidents.
