Rolling back legislation

As other people have already commented our new lords and master in the condem alliance don’t seem to be in a terrible hurry to remove all the bad legislation that our previous glorious leaders brought in to trample on our freedoms. However over at The Register I learn that they are amending the utterly abysmal Digital economy act, there radical reform is that after you’ve failed to prove yourself innocent they won’t charge you to lodge an appeal. Oh unless of course too many people lodge “unnecessary appeals” in which case they will charge you. Mind ISP’s are still being … Continue reading

First they came for the smokers

The indomitable LegIron has been talking about the methods the righteous have used to attack smokers for sometime now, and pointing out repeatedly how they are starting to use the same methods on drinkers, fat people and people that like salt (to name but a few). I keep meaning to link to these posts and add some erudite comment of my own and never getting round to it. However today he brought to my attention that things seem to have actually progressed to the point where it seems that smokers are being attacked with police sanction. Now of course it … Continue reading

Three from the register

For those of you that already read the tech news site The Register, sorry for drawing your attention to three rather interesting articles on there today. Following on from Anna Raccoon’s article on ASBO’s given to prostitutes/a> the register observes that the police normally object to people publishing details of suspects under investigation. One would assume that unless caught actually in the act by the police, or even then, that a decent lawyer would be able to weaken the value of any witness statements if the ladies concerned ever get taken to trial on the grounds of all the publicity … Continue reading