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Just in – arrest Blair

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Just been pointed at a shiny new website from Cyberium/George Monbiot (hat tip : Her Ladyship at Tora Towers). http://www.arrestblair.org/ The stated aim of the site is: “This site offers a reward to people attempting a peaceful citizen’s arrest of the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, for crimes against peace. Anyone attempting an arrest which meets the rules laid down here will be entitled to one quarter of the money collected at the time of his or her application. Money donated to this site will be used for no other purpose than to pay bounties for attempts to arrest … Continue reading →

Authoritarian sheep killers

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It’s quite odd what you can find when looking for something else, such as a site which sells sheepskin parchment and happens to mention: “It is a legal requirement that all Acts of Parliament are still recorded on this material.“ Which seemed unlikely to me what with this being the twentfirst century and all, so I did a bit of searching, and what do you know it’s true: “Today these parchment rolls, with the more modern Acts of Parliament printed on parchment too, are kept by the Parliamentary Archives in the Victoria Tower of the Palace of Westminster.“ Now at … Continue reading →

The new puritanism

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I’ve been meaning to write this for quite a while and never quite getting round to it, but the recent post over at Devils Kitchen has prompted to actually do something. If you read Devils Kitchen and Leg Iron already you can probably just skip this as I’m not going to say anything new and will be linking to them extensively, as I’m just trying to pull a load of stuff together for my own benefit. This thread goes back quite a long way especially over on Leg Irons, who seems to have predicted events rather well – though we’ve … Continue reading →