Chris Williams reports on the government’s decision to press ahead with plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on a massive central silo for all UK communications data.

Ninety percent of the costs of the heavy-handed policing at the Climate Camp are being paid for by the Government, local council sources have admitted this week [1].

_Marcus Morgan_ argues that Boris Johnson's 'zero tolerance' approach to crime is symptomatic of growing police powers across the UK and harks back to the detested “Sus” laws of the 1980s, when police were able to stop and search based on suspicion alone.

The _World Socialist Web Site_ spoke to _Musab Younis_ about the arrest and imminent deportation to Algeria of Hicham Yezza, a faculty member of the University of Nottingham, England. Musab Younis is the manager of Hicham’s defence campaign and a close friend.

The Home Office is seeking to introduce legislation which would allow them to remove Unaccompanied Asylum Seeker Children (UASCs) back to their country of origin. Liz Smith reports.