International Law

Worcester's newest tourist attraction: a family of peregrines

Posted on May 13, 2008
Worcester's newest tourist attraction: a family of peregrines"For many years, Worcester did not boast many notable tourist attractions. A porcelain centre and a dusty museum on Elgar were about all that the city's visitor website could muster.But the arrival of a family of peregrine falcons has changed all that"...

Addicts who steal may escape jail

Posted on May 12, 2008
Addicts who steal may escape jail"Burglars and thieves could escape jail if they commit their crimes because of addiction to drink, drugs or gambling, under proposed sentencing guidelines".The guidelines say: "Many offenders convicted of acquisitive crimes are motivated by an addiction, often to drugs or gambling...

McCanns: Are they sick?

Posted on May 12, 2008
McCanns: Are they sick?I think there is something sick about the McCanns celebrating the so-called 5th birthday of Madeleine. They claim that they are only doing it for the benefit of their 3 year old twins. I think the MSM has to take some of the blame, after all they printed and broadcasted reports of the so-called 4 year old Madeleine after the time she would have been 4 had she still been alive...

UN prison holds death-row convicts

Posted on May 12, 2008
UN prison holds death-row convicts"A state-of-the-art prison, built by the United Nations to hold Afghanistan?s drugs barons, is being used to house ordinary prisoners awaiting execution"."The decision to move death-row convicts into the new U-10 wing of Policharki prison in Kabul, which has lain empty for 20 months, has caused acute embarrassment to the UK government, which opposes the death penalty and contributed about $2m (?1...

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Mentally ill 'go without food'

Posted on May 12, 2008
Mentally ill 'go without food'"Almost three-quarters of people with mental health problems run out of money at the end of each week, a study says".Tell me about it. I recently received a letter from Yorkshire Water informing me that it was applying to the DWP to deduct money I owed them from my benefits...

McCanns: Gerry appears to spill the beans; when and where?

Posted on May 12, 2008
McCanns: Gerry appears to spill the beans; when and where??Yes, yes, I know,? Gerry says bitterly. ?Kate killed her in a frenzy...".LinkA clue is Nourishing Obscurity and how the blog author sometimes posts apparently invisibly.UPDATE: I hear Metodo 3 are to hire a famous French detective http://inspectorclouseau...

McCanns: Laugh or cry - take your pick

Posted on May 12, 2008
McCanns: Laugh or cry - take your pickThe Three Arguidos forum is an excellent site. This thread asks some interesting questions about the odds of events happening or not happening in the McCann case. Some serious and some funny posts.Photos: Three Arguidos forum

MI5 instigated torture of British citizens

Posted on May 12, 2008
MI5 instigated torture of British citizensMI5 arranged for British citizens to be arrested by Pakistani authorities, they were then softened up by torture, followed by questioning by the MI5. In my view, this is the same as MI5 doing the torture themselves...

Beverley Westwood Pasture

Posted on May 11, 2008
Beverley Westwood PastureIn about half an hour Rocky and I are going here for a long walk, whilst my friend and his friend take part in an annual long distance run over the pasture. My friend's dog Barney will be with Rocky and myself. I have just seen the St John's Ambulance Brigade heading that way, so my friend and his friend should be ok if they need assistance...

McCanns: Red Alert - Don't drink and childmind

Posted on May 11, 2008
McCanns: Red Alert - Don't drink and childmindDon't drink and childmind

McCanns: Words

Posted on May 11, 2008
McCanns: WordsWe're doing some YouTubes on the McCann case.Private investigationsP.S. That computer glitch is back again. You can see this but I can't.

Woman in US pregnant with her 18th child

Posted on May 10, 2008
Woman in US pregnant with her 18th childWhat's up, haven't they got a TV? Have they never heard of contraception? And, what's with every kids name beginning with the letter "J"? Perhaps the idea is to have one kid for each hole on a golf course, and the bun in the oven when it's delivered will stay in the clubhouse?

Dilemma of conflicting rights

Posted on May 10, 2008
Dilemma of conflicting rightsRapist murderer had right to be housedWhat is wrong about the above headline is at the time he was housed he was not a murderer. But, even if this was the case, the council still has to house someone who is homeless.What is disturbing about this case, is that the council did not house him somewhere else...

Core blimey

Posted on May 10, 2008
Core blimey!"Mr Hirst said he was tapped on the shoulder by a police community support officer as he walked to the chemist at lunchtime on April 21.The officer accused him of dropping the core ? which Mr Hirst denied ? and demanded his name and address"...

Technical hitch appears to be fixed

Posted on May 10, 2008
Technical hitch appears to be fixedThat's a relief.

Google your sorry isn't good enough

Posted on May 10, 2008
Google your sorry isn't good enoughI can do everything but view my blog!Google Error We're sorry... ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now...

Prisons watchdog attacks closure

Posted on May 09, 2008
Prisons watchdog attacks closureThe chief prisons inspector has criticised the closure of a unit for teenage offenders which inspectors found was a "beacon of good practice".If it works, don't fix it.

Rise in violent re-offending data

Posted on May 09, 2008
Rise in violent re-offending data"Research into crime rates shows an increase in the number of offenders who went on to commit further sexual and violent crimes in England and Wales".

Words fail me

Posted on May 09, 2008
Words fail me

Judge frees man after sex with 11 year old girl

Posted on May 09, 2008
Judge frees man after sex with 11 year old girl"A "high-risk" paedophile who groomed and abused an 11-year-old girl on her school lunch break has walked free after a judge said the girl "welcomed sex"".Notwithstanding that the young girl wanted sex, it was sexual abuse of a minor by an adult...

Home Office adds insult to injury

Posted on May 09, 2008
Home Office adds insult to injury"A Filipino man whose wife died after being given an epidural in the arm rather than the spine during childbirth has lost his fight to stay in the UK".It beggars belief at the insensitivity of the Home Office, first one arm of the state kills his wife, then the other arm of the state has ordered that he should be deported because he has no family life here.

Man escapes being fired by Alan Sugar

Posted on May 09, 2008
Man escapes being fired by Alan Sugar"A teenage girl gang may have settled a dispute with a schoolmate by blowing up her house with a ?purple? liquid bomb researched on the internet, police have said".Following this Harrow blast, perhaps the gang should target Eton?

McCanns search for media attention: Leave no page unturned

Posted on May 09, 2008
McCanns search for media attention: Leave no page unturned10.50pm 3 May 2007: "The first call Gerry made on the night of the crime was to Alistair Clark, a good friend from University days and a diplomat close to Gordon Brown. Clark must have immediately contacted people at the highest level"...

Bedtime stories

Posted on May 08, 2008
Bedtime storiesOf course Iain Dale (who? you might ask) has to have a daily dozen. I only have the one. Well worth a read if you like dying men's last words. White Rabbit and Go Ahead Warden and Murder Me.

Heatwave

Posted on May 08, 2008
HeatwaveJust been down to the chemist's to pick up my eye drops and take Rocky for a walk. What a belter! Can any of you old codgers remember the Summer of 1976 when it started in May? The prison authorities had to paint the skylights black as the Wings were like ovens inside...

Thought crime

Posted on May 08, 2008
Thought crimeMother's porn law campaign ends"A mother whose daughter was murdered by a man addicted to violent internet porn has completed her fight to have such images banned".This is more knee-jerk legislation which will only overcrowd the prisons even more and all a person has done is sit at their computer and not even download child porn!

If a picture can tell a thousand words

Posted on May 08, 2008
If a picture can tell a thousand words

MI5 knew about torture, says Guantanamo Briton Binyam Mohamed

Posted on May 08, 2008
MI5 knew about torture, says Guantanamo Briton Binyam Mohamed"A Guantanamo Bay inmate is demanding that ministers release documents that could free him from the US internment camp.Binyam Mohamed, 30, claims in High Court documents that British agencies hold material that would show he was tortured while in custody and subjected to extraordinary rendition...

Me and Mr Jones: is John Hurt the latest Indiana Jones villain?

Posted on May 08, 2008
Me and Mr Jones: is John Hurt the latest Indiana Jones villain?I never did tell you about the time I went to London to record The Choice for Radio 4, and I was put up at a swank hotel, and was driven about in chauffeured limos. At any rate, the one who was taking me back to Kings Cross to go home turned up at the hotel and there was a case of mistaken identity...

Police will harass yobs in new plan to tackle antisocial behaviour

Posted on May 08, 2008
Police will harass yobs in new plan to tackle antisocial behaviour"Thousands of yobs are to be photographed and videoed in big-brother style police operations to tackle persistent antisocial behaviour, the Home Secretary announced today.Suspects will be ?harassed? by officers visiting them day and night and issued with repeated warnings about their behaviour under the drive to deal with a hard core of offenders who persist with yobbish behaviour on estates"...

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