Scott Phillips

Genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past® genealogy services

Many of us who love and labor over our family histories, ancestry, and genealogy do so from a home office. In my case, early in my career I worked ...

Steve White

Vice Chair, Police Federation

Police officers are sometimes accused of being self-interested but few care more about justice for victims and families than the officers who put their own safety on the line to ensure that offenders are brought to justice.

Anna Ost

London-based human rights professional working with survivors of cruelty

Trafficking victims from outside the EU receive inferior care compared to those trafficked within the UK and Europe, but with the abolition of the UK Border Agency Theresa May has the opportunity to ensure victims are more adequately supported.

Will Black

Writer with a background in anthropology and mental health care

Cameron appears to have frantically scribbled the policy on a napkin as he watched the local election results come in. Since his party's woeful performance, he has suddenly become more jittery about immigration than Captain Hook was about ticking clocks.

Harry Cooper

A Brussels-based Brit

Sadly we live in a world when politicians rarely look outside the bubble in which they are trapped. You can't blame them really. If they say sorry, their rivals say 'you have failed'. If they admit fault, the ideologues of their respective parties start baying for blood. In a world where your position is only as secure as the amount of time you have spent climbing the greasy pole to political success, little wonder that they feel they can't be honest.

Greg Bianchi

Current News Editor at ‘The Journal’. Bit obsessed with politics and news.

The UKIP successes in these local elections are influential in the short term. However, the long term impact of UKIP is still up for debate. While UKIP have been on the rise in recent years it is true that even these results have taken many analysts by surprise.

Tam Hussein

Writer and journalist

Why sully UK's human rights record further by deporting him to a country that practices torture? Ms. May doesn't need a judge to tell her that torture is evil, her conscience should do that.

Jan Shaw

Refugee Programme Director, Amnesty International UK

For the last few months I have been examining the reasons why so many of the decisions to refuse asylum are being overturned by Immigration Judges here in the UK. Home Office statistics show that 25% of initial decisions to refuse asylum, are being overturned.

Bobby Friedman

Author and commentator

However many classical or sporting analogies he cites, whatever his chances of being reincarnated as an olive really are, we all know that Boris would kill to be prime minister. But then, the same is true of almost every single minister and the vast majority of MPs.

Ivan Lewis MP

Shadow Secretary of State for International Development

Following the demise of the Big Society and the 'green blue' Tories, aid was the last bastion of David Cameron's claim to have detoxified the Tory brand. However, by abandoning the moral case for aid and seeking to mislead people about its future use, Cameron is revealing how weak he has become.

Mehdi Hasan

Political director of The Huffington Post UK

Has the Tory right gone mad? Taken collective leave of its senses? The non-stop chatter about whether or not David Cameron will survive until 2015 and the endless speculation about whether it'll be Theresa May or Boris Johnson who succeeds him is bizarre. In fact, I find myself, weirdly, unusually and unexpectedly, coming to the defence of our poor prime minister.

Ned Simons

Assistant Political Editor, The Huffington Post UK

So apparently Theresa May's plot to take Britain out of the European Court of Human Rights, viewed as part of her plot to succeed David Cameron as Tory leader, was actually leaked by a cabinet rival plotting their own plot against her.

Paul Nuttall

MEP and deputy leader of Ukip

The Ukip policy on the European Convention or ECHR is quite straightforward. We wish to withdraw from this discredited shambles. Why? Because the European Court of Justice has become a danger to British democracy and an affront to human rights in general. The Convention has been used to protect and mother cuddle terrorists, rapists and preachers of hatred.

Jamie Bartlett

Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos

Not all of us were relaxing over Christmas: Home Office officials working on the draft Communications Data Bill were probably quite busy. Following the Scrutiny Committee's report on the Bill, the Prime Minister promised a redraft. So what now? Here's my advice to the Home Office on the changes needed if this Bill is to be passed this session.

Don Flynn

Director, Migrants Rights Network

Capita seemed to have a sure-fire guarantee that money was there to be made out of this deal. All they had to do was contact the individuals concerned, either by old-fashioned letter or text message, telling them it was time to go, and they'd be paid a commission.

Scott Capurro

Comic, actor and author

Why is the media so anxious about phone tapping? I would love if someone as powerful as Rupert Murdoch gave a sh*t about what I say.