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Britons Weary of Surveillance in Minor Cases
October 27, 2009 – 9:51 am | No Comment
Britons Weary of Surveillance in Minor Cases

By SARAH LYALL
POOLE, England — It has become commonplace to call Britain a “surveillance society,” a place where security cameras lurk at every corner, giant databases keep track of intimate personal details and the government …

Faith and unreason: The headteacher hounded from her job – Erica Connor took a failing school and turned it into a beacon of academic achievement and racial harmony. So why was she driven from her job by religious extremists and misguided officials? Tim Walker hears her story
April 6, 2009 – 3:20 pm | No Comment
Faith and unreason: The headteacher hounded from her job – Erica Connor took a failing school and turned it into a beacon of academic achievement and racial harmony. So why was she driven from her job by religious extremists and misguided officials? Tim Walker hears her story

On a Friday afternoon in September 2005, just two weeks into the new school year, Erica Connor walked away from the job she loved. The head of the once-thriving New Monument school in Woking, Surrey, …

A little bit more like us
October 6, 1999 – 6:04 pm | No Comment
A little bit more like us

By Faisal Kutty – “Do they train kids to be terrorists in that Moslem School in Cornwall?” asked one of my roommates during my first year of law school. Caught off guard, I inquired further. …