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More Olympic nonsense

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I wasn’t going to write another article about the Olympics so soon honest I wasn’t and hopefully when they actually begin I’ll shut up about them. However it’s hard to keep quiet when it’s being proposed that there will be special Olympic Offences because it’s extra bad if you break the law in a way that disrupts the Olympics. So bad in fact that the supposedly neutral CPS “may appeal over sentences for Olympic-related offences if it felt they were too lenient.” Which I think most of us these days would read as “will appeal”. Of course they don’t need … Continue reading →

Losing the battle already

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I know I shouldn’t extrapolate from a few face book comments to tar an entire group with the same broad brush, but this recent post to the CAMRA group on face book convinces me that some people really aren’t paying attention. In fact they’re obviously paid so little attention that the battle to save booze from the same fate as has so far befell smoking has probably been lost already. How after all the bans we’ve already seen can anyone still ask “IS this advertising ban going too far” rather than “how do we stop this lunacy dead in it’s … Continue reading →

The Olympics ™ (c) Pat Pending

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This blog would like to make it clear how very proud it is not to be an Olympic sponsor for the London 2012 games this summer. Following what must surely become known as chip gate the level of paranoia exhibited by the official sponsors turns out to exceed that of our security forces. Though of course they haven’t tried to put missiles on to nearby tower blocks to pre-emptively remove any unauthorised advertising, t-shirt, snack. The 300 purple capped brand police will be enforcing special legislation brought into protect the corporate interest of the big sponsors making sure no small … Continue reading →