CCTV Crime Deterrent Or Just Another Example Of Big Brother?

The local authorities and Transport for London operate over 10,000 Close Circuit Television cameras (CCTV) that are estimated to have cost the tax payer an estimated £200 million. Despite the relentless drive towards installing more and more cameras figures recently released suggest that CCTV does little to prevent or solve crime. Should the reliance on CCTV be curbed and they only be installed where there is undeniable evidence that they are effective?

CCTV Crime Deterrent Or Just Another Example Of Big Brother?

DNA Testing For All?

The British police can currently store DNA samples from anyone arrested in England or Wales for a recordable offence which typically can lead to jail. Do you think that a country's police force should be allowed to keep such information and should each country move towards having the whole population and every visitor's DNA added to a national DNA database?

DNA Testing For All?

The British Leave Basra, Handover Or Retreat?

We ask if the handover by the British to the Iraq government was an inevitable step in a war that many would argue was ill-conceived right from the very start? Will the Americans have to sooner or later face reality and follow suit? Have the British cut and run leaving even more death, destruction and hardship for the average Iraqi?

The British Leave Basra, Handover Or Retreat?