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The Court of Appeal in Kano has drastically reduced the sentence of Mubarak Bala, imprisoned President of the Nigerian Humanist Association, from 24 years to five. The judges unanimously found that his original sentence for blasphemous Facebook posts was excessive and in contravention of the law. Bala has already been in prison for four years, so this… Read more »
The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) are set to launch their Bakers‘ Dozen manifesto that they and their members want to see introduced by the next UK Government. Aimed especially at the Labour Party, the Bakers‘ Dozen report and manifesto lays out 13 policy demands that would transform the lives of their members and working class people across… Read more »
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Politicians and journalists spent the last full week of January 2011 wringing their hands – but for very different reasons. For the politicians, the problem was the economy, stupid. It’s never good news when GDP starts contracting, which is why the coalition found itself on the back foot all week. There’s only so many times… Read more »
Read David Cameron’s speech to the Davos World Economic Forum in full, on politics.co.uk. Thank you, Professor. It’s been four decades since you first invited European business leaders up this mountain and gave them a stark message modernise and adapt – or fall behind and fail. Forty years on, here we are again. No one… Read more »