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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage,… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff The counterterrorism programme followed by the UK and US undermines the law, a report by judges and lawyers has said. The independent International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) also concluded most of the measures were counterproductive. The report highlights how many countries with poor human rights record now point to UK and US… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff A group of MPs and human rights activists have written to president Barack Obama calling on him to publish details of secret documents allegedly containing details of UK complicity in torture. “With the foreign secretary refusing to lobby the US to release these documents, I felt others had to do his job… Read more »