Afghanistan now has more dead Brits than the Falklands

Over the past two days three more soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan by bombs. This brings the total number of British service personnel who have died in the Afghanistan conflict up to 256 which is one more soldier than was lost in 1982 in the Falkland Islands.

Sunday, two people from the 1st Battalion, [...]

Airport scanners may produce child porn

The quick installation of full body scanners at top British airports may breach some child protection laws that pertain to indecent images.

Campaigners are worried that the machines create graphic images of children and that there need to be better safeguards in place to protect passengers’ privacy.

In the face of the concern, ministers now need to [...]

Another would be terrorist bites the dust

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab does not fit the accepted profile of a terrorist, but yet his apparent involvement in Islamist militancy began nonetheless just a step away from Oxford Street at the University College London.

It was here on the manicured tennis courts and lawns that Abdulmutallab first is believed to have started to express his radical [...]