Last week else where

Apparently I still haven’t quite got the hang of this regular posting lark, so late in the week here’s some stuff from last week. Vignia introduces a new Stazi App to report your neighbour Affordable steel printing coming soon The police rebuilding links with the media by inviting them to the most salacious raids Even Nobel prize winners say peer review is broken Can we move on from everything being Left or Right wing? +6-1

The security Jobsworths

For those of you that are regular readers you may remember the other day when I went for little walk, that the police took interest in my interest in the various security features around Westminster. Well it seems the problem is far from uncommon and it’s not just the police that are against us filming well pretty much anything, as Rod Liddle recently found. As the film so rightly observes they object to us filming but want to film us all the time, and when challenged none of them can give a reason why the filming or looking at stuff … Continue reading

Monday amusement

It’s Monday and I need coffee so here’s something amusing I was linked to: Beginner’s Guide to Police Harassment “A North Island police station received this question from a resident through the feedback section of a local Police website:“I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?”In response, a sergeant posted this reply:First of all, let me tell you this … it’s not easy. In the Palmerston North and rural area we average one cop for every 505 people. Only about 60 per cent of those cops are … Continue reading