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‘An article by Private Eye claimed that staff at the spy agency MI5 had targeted Leon Brittan because they were upset about reports that he was planning a ‘big shake-up’ of their operations following failures […]

Embarrassment for No 10 after senior legal figure, Fiona Woolf quits over links to Westminster political establishment. The Guardian reports: The government’s child sex abuse inquiry was thrown into crisis after Fiona Woolf became the […]

A clandestine Home Office experiment in 1982 tested Britain’s capacity to rebuild after a catastrophic nuclear assault. Previously secret files, made public by the National Archives, document proposals to keep order using psychopathic recruits. The […]

Soldiers with assault rifles are seen outside entrance to Horse Guards Parade: ‘He seemed somewhat out of place amid the traditional, old-fashioned ceremony of Changing the Guard. But this heavily armed soldier in combat fatigues […]

Brokers linked to payday loan companies may be raiding the bank accounts of over 1 million Britons, with many being the poorest in society, the UK’s biggest banks have warned. Natwest, one of the largest […]

‘The IT behind the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) flagship welfare programme is “completely unworkable, badly designed, and already out of date”, according to a jobcentre employee, who was speaking to Channel 4′s Dispatches. […]

Fiona Woolf, former president of the Law Society and current Lord Mayor of London, was the victim of a kangaroo court – but she was wrong to take the job chairing the government inquiry into […]

Labour MP links Leon Brittan to 80s child abuse claims: Amid row over historic sex crimes inquiry, former Home Secretary named in Commons, reports the Mail Onlline: A Labour MP has used parliamentary privilege to […]