Category Archives: follow up

Do you really support protecting all sub cultures against hate crime?

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My friends feed continues to be full of people rejoicing at Greater Manchester police not treating everyone as equal before the law, and calling for the extension of hate crime legislation to include alternative subcultures and as the Sophie Lancaster campaign says: “To campaign to have the UK Hate Crime legislation extended to include people from alternative subcultures or Lifestyle and Dress.” The press is even being terribly glad about it and people are writing articles praising this new attack on equality. Last time I checked assault was illegal and so was harassment so there is recourse if you need … Continue reading →

Drinkuary an update

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As the concept of Drinkuary has now been launched for a whole five days I thought I’d share a small update. Rather gratifyingly the FaceBook event has already over taken Alcohol Concerns “Dry January” by a respectable margin, despite not having months of planning, media consultants and tax payers money to call upon. At the moment Drinkuary is ahead 620 to 513 and improving, apparently people are rather fed up with being told what to do and seeing more and more costs applied to the things they enjoy. If you’ve not joined in already do join in the fun, and … Continue reading →

Competiton the results are in

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Just in case anyone thought I’d forgotten about my little competition as the hoo hah about the both olympricks are now over I can safely announce the winner. Picked from a massive choice of being the only person to enter the Chief Zymurgist gets the Wenlock. +4-2