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Here is today’s roundup of stories.

Comment

Henry Porter (Comment is Free) - Why I told Parliament: you’ve failed us on liberty
After a celebrated two-year campaign to protect our freedoms, The Observer’s Henry Porter was called last week to give evidence to a panel of peers and MPs assessing whether a Bill of Rights is necessary for Britain today. Here is his impassioned submission

Mail (Daily Mail) - Cambridge University sex attack victim did NOT want fellow student punished
It took a jury just two-and-a-half hours to clear 23-year-old Cambridge University graduate Jack Gillett of sexually assaulting a fellow student after a night of drinking. She claimed that after they kissed he had repeatedly ignored her pleas to stop as he pulled off her clothes in his room and pinned her to the ground and groped her. But the judge questioned why the case had ever been brought to court. Here a close friend gives a compelling insight into how the 22-year-old woman found herself in a judicial process she could not halt and the motives behind her reporting the case. For legal reasons she must remain anonymous – Sara is not her real name ”

Antonio Maria Costa (Guardian) - Every line of cocaine means a little part of Africa dies
The UN’s drugs tsar denounces celebrities such as Amy Winehouse for adding to the misery of already vulnerable countries

News

BBC (BBC) - Thatcher resting at London home
Baroness Thatcher is resting at her London home after spending the night in hospital undergoing tests.

Economist (Economist) - Chinese art-buyers are in overdrive
FEW of the international specialists who deal in Asian art could have predicted the outcome of the main sale of the season at Christies in London last November. Of the ten most expensive lots, eight went to Chinese buyers, including an early 15th-century Song porcelain flask that was not in the best condition.

James Politi in Washington (FT) - Obama wins Wyoming Democratic caucus
Mr Obama clinched 59 per cent of the vote in Wyoming, against 40 per cent for Mrs Clinton, with 96 per cent of precincts reporting. Both candidates had campaigned in Wyoming ahead of Saturday’s caucuses, the latest contest in the increasingly bitter battle to face Republican John McCain in the US presidential election in November.

Paul Harris in New York (Guardian) - The most powerful people in American politics
Their email accounts are full and their phones are ringing off the hook. They are the superdelegates - the 795 Democratic bigwigs who will now decide whether Obama or Clinton will become their party’s candidate for president

STEVEN LEE MYERS (NYT) - Bush Veto of Bill on C.I.A. Tactics Affirms His Legacy
Mr. Bush vetoed a bill that would have explicitly prohibited the agency from using interrogation methods like waterboarding, a technique in which restrained prisoners are threatened with drowning and that has been the subject of intense criticism at home and abroad. Many such techniques are prohibited by the military and law enforcement agencies.

Obituary

Telegraph (Telegraph)

- Carol Barnes
After a year as a radio reporter with the BBC, she joined ITN two years later. Her early assignments as a reporter included the return from exile of the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 and, two years later, the Brixton riots (which Barnes covered while seven months pregnant with her daughter).

Scotland

BBC (BBC) - Talks over scrapping council tax
Talks have taken place between the Scottish Government and the Liberal Democrats over scrapping the council tax in favour of a local income tax.

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