International Law

To Hull and beyond

Posted on June 15, 2008
To Hull and beyondOne year on from the storms, playwright John Godber tells Ian McCurrach why we should visit this part of Britain's coast"Most people go to London to seek their fortune but I came to Hull, so I guess I'm a Yorkshireman through and through...

Is Bush's legacy his failure to capture Osma Bin Laden?

Posted on June 15, 2008
Is Bush's legacy his failure to capture Osma Bin Laden?If the world is a safer place when George Bush leaves the Whitehouse, it won't be because he arranged the topple from power and execution of Saddam Hussein. And now he wants Osma Bin Laden's head before he leaves office...

Inquiry after prisoner found dead

Posted on June 14, 2008
Inquiry after prisoner found deadAn inquiry has been launched after a 39-year-old man was found hanged in his cell at Lincoln Prison.Paramedics were called to the scene on Friday morning but the prisoner, named as Paul Murphy, was pronounced dead shortly afterwards...

An empty judgment

Posted on June 14, 2008
An empty judgmentThe supreme court struck a blow against Bush's Guantánamo policy. But we've been here before, and the prison's still there"Yesterday's welcome US supreme court ruling that prisoners in Guantánamo have the right to bring their cases to civilian courts in America, comes four years after the supreme court previously made that decision...

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Why Germany is not the place for a happy bunny

Posted on June 14, 2008
Why Germany is not the place for a happy bunnyRiddle of the pet rabbit serial murders"Anxious rabbit owners in Germany's Ruhr district have started locking up their pets at night after a spate of mysterious and brutal "bunny murders" which have baffled police and left more than 40 animals dead"...

Drug-free prisons rejected as impossible

Posted on June 14, 2008
Drug-free prisons rejected as impossible"Drug-free jails are an unrealistic possibility according to a report published yesterday disclosing that half of all inmates use illegal substances.The critical study into the funding of drug treatment in jails in England and Wales estimated that a drug addict costs the taxpayer more than £800,000 over his or her lifetime".

A novel way to ease prison overcrowding...

Posted on June 14, 2008
A novel way to ease prison overcrowding...Taliban fighters escape in daring attack on Afghan prison"Hundreds of Afghan prisoners, including Taliban fighters, have escaped from a prison in the southern city of Kandahar after militants launched an attack on the jail"...

21/7 plotter's wife gets 15 years

Posted on June 13, 2008
21/7 plotter's wife gets 15 years"The wife of attempted 21 July bomber Hussain Osman has been jailed for 15 years for failing to tell police about his plot to attack London".I think this sentence is extreme. Had it been anything else rather than terrorism where she aided an offender I feel she would have received a sentence of 2 years.

Comedy of errors

Posted on June 13, 2008
Comedy of errors

Swans use zebra crossing

Posted on June 13, 2008
Swans use zebra crossing"Motorists and shoppers were startled when they saw a family of swans using a zebra crossing as they waddled through a town centre".I don't think it can be truthfully said that the swans were using the zebra crossing. It appears more to me that they just happened to land upon it as they waddled diagonally across the road, and some opportune photographer snapped the shot...

Guantanamo Bay detainees given right to challenge imprisonment in court

Posted on June 13, 2008
Guantanamo Bay detainees given right to challenge imprisonment in court"The US Supreme Court has delivered a stinging rebuke to George W Bush by ruling that detainees held at Guantanamo Bay were entitled to challenge their incarceration in courts on the American mainland"...

David Davis commits political suicide

Posted on June 13, 2008
David Davis commits political suicide

Shelved asylum centre cost £29m

Posted on June 12, 2008
Shelved asylum centre cost £29mThe Home Office has been criticised by a group of MPs for spending £29m on an asylum accommodation centre which was never even built.Over £6m was paid to consultants for work on the proposed site at Bicester, in Oxfordshire, a report has revealed...

Black Panther to die in prison

Posted on June 12, 2008
Black Panther to die in prison"A notorious killer who kidnapped then murdered a 17-year-old heiress in the 1970s has been told he will spend the rest of his life in jail".I am concerned that firstly our prisons are being turned into a graveyard, and secondly that the Death Penalty appears to have been re-introduced through the back door.

Ex-policeman held in 'abuse' case

Posted on June 12, 2008
Ex-policeman held in 'abuse' caseAn ex-police officer has been arrested in connection with an investigation into abuse allegations at a former care home in Jersey.The 50 year old was arrested in Jersey on suspicion of "serious crimes" at the Haut de la Garenne home and elsewhere on the island...

Gordon Brown get out and stay out

Posted on June 12, 2008
Gordon Brown get out and stay outGordon Brown you have just tried to sell our country down the river. You won the 42 days detention vote with the assistance of 9 votes from the DUP at a cost of £1.2 billion.And all you can say is never mind about the loss of civil liberties, let's instead talk about "worldwide rises in oil and food prices"...

MoD battles Next over duvet cover emblem

Posted on June 12, 2008
MoD battles Next over duvet cover emblem"The Ministry of Defence has launched a legal battle against a high street shopping chain because a duvet cover features the RAF's insignia".Next becomes terrorist threat...

PCSOs 'fail to reduce crime'

Posted on June 12, 2008
PCSOs 'fail to reduce crime'"Deploying police community support officers (PCSOs) has had little effect in reducing crime, according to a report".No surprises there then. Unreal police fail to tackle real crime.

Dog ban means hundreds of B and B's face closure

Posted on June 12, 2008
Dog ban means hundreds of B&Bs face closure"Owners of bed and breakfasts have been banned from keeping dogs in their kitchens under a European Union ruling that could see hundreds of family-run businesses close".When is this madness going to end? Don't tell me, man's best friend is the next terrorist threat!

Tesco: If every little helps, why have prices gone up a lot?

Posted on June 12, 2008
Tesco: If every little helps, why have prices gone up a lot?

Gordon Brown: The cock crowed thrice

Posted on June 12, 2008
Gordon Brown: The cock crowed thricein relation to his denial of no deal with the UDP and Unionists generally...

David Davis to resign to force by-election on 42 days

Posted on June 12, 2008
David Davis to resign to force by-election on 42 days"This is an unconfirmed but well-founded rumour but David Davis, Shadow Home Secretary, is to resign his seat to highlight the issue of 42 days. More as we get it..."For whom the bell tolls, I can hear Gordon Brown's death knell.

Compromise move on under-age sex

Posted on June 11, 2008
Compromise move on under-age sex"Ministers are preparing a compromise over plans to decriminalise certain cases of under-age sex.The Scottish Law Commission said consenting sex between two children under 16 should not be prosecuted".Pair face care home abuse charges"Two men have been charged with numerous sex abuse offences relating to children at care homes in south London...

MPs take on the cistern

Posted on June 11, 2008
MPs take on the cisternWith public lavatories fast disappearing from Britain's High Streets, spending a penny is not as simple as it used to be."All too often it involves a cringe-making visit to a pub or a cafe with a big sign outside saying toilets are for customer use only...

42 Days: No to the Politics of Fear

Posted on June 11, 2008
42 Days: No to the Politics of FearGordon Brown is confusing security and job security"The House of Commons votes today on a proposal that should outrage all its members bar one. The plan to allow police to hold terror suspects for six weeks without charge should offend those who value their civil liberties because it panders to the politics of fear, because it imperils individual freedom and because it is unnecessary...

Racist Tory councillor sparks row blaming Indians for littering Britain

Posted on June 11, 2008
Racist Tory councillor sparks row blaming Indians for littering BritainA Tory councillor who suggested immigrants should be taught that littering is unacceptable was accused of racism.Lucy Ivimy expressed concern that a council estate was being blighted by rubbish thrown from flats into a communal garden...

Plane madness

Posted on June 11, 2008
Plane madnessLink.

Iain Dale cannot add up for tuppence

Posted on June 11, 2008
Iain Dale cannot add up for tuppenceAccording to Iain Dale, the government is offering a sweetner, bribe, of £3,000 per day compensation for those released without charge. He says, that £3,000 per day for 42 days is £42,000. I am almost totally innumerate...

Brown wins crunch vote on 42 days: And the country loses

Posted on June 11, 2008
Brown wins crunch vote on 42 days: And the country loses"Prime Minister Gordon Brown has narrowly won a House of Commons vote on extending the maximum time police can hold terror suspects to 42 days.Rebel Labour MPs had joined forces with Conservative and Lib Dems to vote against the proposals...

MS sufferer's landmark win in right to die case

Posted on June 11, 2008
MS sufferer's landmark win in right to die caseA woman with Multiple Sclerosis has won a crucial stage of her legal battle to be allowed to commit suicide abroad with her husband's help."Debbie Purdy, who is confined to a wheelchair, wants to able to die in a clinic in Switzerland when her condition becomes unbearable...

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