The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The public is being "terrorised" by the idea that the population will hit the 70 million mark, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said today.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Home secretary eschews polarised arguments, either for immigration to cease or for an 'open door' policy The home secretary, Alan Johnson, tonight set out the terms for a national debate on immigration, saying it was legitimate to argue for a pre-determined quota on migration but not to call for immigration to cease or for an "open door" policy. For the...
ITProPortal (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Home Secretary Alan Johnson has announced in the House of Commons that Gary McKinnon, the hacker accused for breaking into Pentagon’s computer network, will get extra time to appeal to the courts for a judicial review of his extradition to the US.
Digital Business World (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Home Secretary may give lawyers extra time NASA hacker Gary McKinnon's battle to avoid extradition to the US has been given new hope, after Home Secretary Alan Johnson said he may grant extra time for a judicial review of the case.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Human rights campaigners hail high court ruling that if 'the government is going to lock you up, it needs to tell you why' Senior judges have ruled for a second time against the use of secret evidence in terror cases in a fresh setback for the home secretary, Alan Johnson. Mr Justice Laws, sitting with Mr Justice Owen, ruled in the high court today that two men suspected of terrorism-related...
Same Difference (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The home secretary has defended his decision to allow the extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon amid criticism from some MPs. Glasgow-born Mr McKinnon, 43, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, is accused of breaking into US military computers. He says he was seeking UFOs, and is fighting a US trial on medical grounds. Alan Johnson told the Commons the [...]
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... adviser on online safety. The code, which is voluntary, is due to be unveiled tomorrow by schools secretary Ed Balls and home secretary Alan Johnson. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to attend the event. Under the new standards, sites would also have to offer 'safe search' for children, stopping them from accessing unsuitable sites, and parents would have greater...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
AN MSP has written to Home Secretary Alan Johnson about fears a judicial review to allow a ten-year-old asylum seeker and her mother to stay in the UK could be "fast-track
As I See It (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... members of the Labour Party used to tell themselves a version of the fairytale written above with Home Secretary Alan Johnson cast as the hero. Surely a man so nice he behaved like he really didn’t want to be Home Secretary let alone PM would make an ideal leader, no more spin, no more expenses scandals; with Captain Alan at the wheel everything would...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The U.K. government will give a British hacker a short extension to challenge an extradition order to face trial in the U.S. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said last Thursday he would not intervene to block the extradition of Gary McKinnon on medical grounds. McKinnon has admitted to hacking into U.S. military computers as well as others from his girlfriend's north London home...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Police anger as home secretary Alan Johnson urges £70m cut in overtime The government's policing reforms are failing to make serious progress and officers are spending no more time on the beat now than they were two years ago, the police's "red tape tsar" has said. Jan Berry, the head of the reducing bureaucracy practitioners group, said the introduction of 27,000...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
BRITISH POLICE have been ordered by home secretary Alan Johnson to cut overtime pay bills by a quarter and save hundreds of millions elsewhere from their budgets in an effort to cut costs.
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
HOME Secretary Alan Johnson yesterday defended his decision to order Scots computer hacker Gary McKinnon to be extradited to the US.
Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... who was once a senior al-Qaeda instructor and one of the world’s most wanted terrorists. The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, said he was “surprised and disappointed” by the ruling and added: "My sole objective is protecting the public and this judgment will make that job harder... [The folly of trying war combatants in civilian courts. Nothing about courts...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Home Office hopes slashing budgets now will help make the £0.5bn saving an annual target from five years time Police forces in England and Wales will today be ordered to slash spending in a bid to save around £500m a year, by 2014. The home secretary, Alan Johnson, is set to announce plans to cut overtime by £70m as part of a new blueprint for reforms...
