Category Archives: Must read post

First they came for the smokers

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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

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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 →

Must read post of the other day

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Having been a little bit busy I didn’t link to this at the time, but even this late in the day as electoral reform is still such a popular topic, Bella Gerens has an excellent post on How to solve the problem of a hung parliament “Whenever constitutional reform is mooted here in the UK, the drive seems to be something along the lines of: the executive has too much power, MPs have too little, and oh yeah, unelected Lords have no place in a democratic nation. (Let’s pretend in this discussion, for the sake of simplicity, that the Lisbon … Continue reading →