A new threat to media freedoms

By Annie Machon - Writers of the world, beware.  A new threat to our freedom of speech is looming and, for once, I am not inveighing against the Official Secrets Act. Over recent years the UK has rightly earned More...

DoubleThink Disorder – a new pathology

By Annie Machon - Annie Machon´s Blog An update is apparently due of the 1994 edition of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders", the psychiatrists' bible that allows them to tick-box their More...

“Subversion” old and new

By Annie Machon - Annie Machon An interesting article in yesterday's Telegraph by political commentator Peter Oborne about Abu Qatada.  This case has caused much sound and fury amongst the British political More...

Judicial rendition – the UK-US extradition treaty is a farce

By Annie Machon - Annie Machon Sometimes I sit here reading the news -  on subjects in which I take a deep interest such as the recent police investigation into UK spy complicity in torture, where the police More...

Spy documents found in Libya reveal more British double dealing

by Annie Machon  A cache of highly classified intelligence documents was recently discovered in the abandoned offices of former Libyan spy master, Foreign Minister and high-profile defector, Musa Kusa. These More...