International Law

McCanns: Spot the deliberate mistake

Posted on April 30, 2008
McCanns: Spot the deliberate mistake"In the programme, Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign For Change, the McCanns tells how they considered taking their three children with them to another restaurant called the Millennium further away, but rejected the idea only because they did not have a buggy, they said".

Lock him up and throw away the key

Posted on April 30, 2008
Lock him up and throw away the keyThe Tory blogger Guido Fawkes, real name Paul Staines, has been convicted of being twice over the drink drive limit, and driving without insurance. I have nothing but praise for the police officers who witnessed this drunken sod swerving all over the road, and decided to pull him over and subject him to a breathalyser test...

150 bail hostels are being built in secret

Posted on April 30, 2008
150 bail hostels are being built in secretI don't know what is secret about it all, I read about this on the Prison Service website and Clearsprings website and blogged it here.

Crime doesn't pay

Posted on April 30, 2008
Crime doesn't payBy Erwin JamesGordon Brown talks about the responsibilities of prisoners, but in refusing to increase their measly allowance, he's shirking his ownWell done Gordon Brown for stepping in to ensure that people in prison are denied any chance of the "pay rise" that had been recommended by senior Prison Service managers...

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Kate McCann is angry with bloggers: I am angry with ITV

Posted on April 30, 2008
Kate McCann is angry with bloggers: I am angry with ITVI made the right decision last night to watch Traffic Cops and The Apprentice on BBC 1 rather than watch Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign For Change on ITV, which I taped to watch at 10 O' Clock. Unfortunately I missed the News At Ten special, which I am led to understand featured even more of the McCanns, if 2 hours of them wasn't enough to make you sick!I find it distasteful that Gerry and Kate McCann who are prime suspects in the disappearance of their 3 year old daughter, Madeleine, are trying to preach to the rest of us how an Amber Alert system Europe-wide could assist in cases of child abduction...

China jails 17 over Tibet protests

Posted on April 29, 2008
China jails 17 over Tibet protestsBy Allegra Stratton and agenciesSeventeen people have been jailed over the most violent challenge to Chinese rule in Tibet for nearly two decades.The sentences handed down today, ranging from three years to life, are the first since riots that began on March 10...

So much for the POA claiming prison is too soft

Posted on April 29, 2008
So much for the POA claiming prison is too softWomen stuck in foetid cells close to open lavatories in sweltering heat... oh yes, prison is so much funBy Michele HansonWorrying claims were made last week by the Prison Officers' Association that men were having a fun time in prisons, with drugs and prostitutes, personal in-room telly, mobile phones, breakfast in bed available, and cowed, amenable staff - if that's what you call fun...

Good news - bad news

Posted on April 29, 2008
Good news - bad newsThe good news:"It is nearly a year since Mrs McCann and husband Gerry found their three-year-old daughter?s empty bed in their holiday apartment in the Algarve".The bad news: Madeleine is still missing.

Blogger fined for 'menacing' rant

Posted on April 29, 2008
Blogger fined for 'menacing' rant"A blogger who "let off steam" about the way he was treated by police has been convicted of posting a grossly offensive and menacing message".Saudi blogger released from jail"A popular Saudi blogger who was detained by the authorities in December has been set free".

Blair: War criminal hung in Portcullis House

Posted on April 29, 2008
Blair: War criminal hung in Portcullis House

My Part In Iain Dale's Downfall by Hitler

Posted on April 29, 2008
My Part In Iain Dale's Downfall by HitlerClarence Mitchell, Iain Dale's spokesman, states that Iain Dale is disappointed about having to cancel his planned holiday in a bunker in Austria given the recent adverse publicity the country has received lately...

Authors denounce Tesco over Thai defamation cases

Posted on April 29, 2008
Authors denounce Tesco over Thai defamation cases"Nick Hornby and other leading British authors today accused Tesco of mounting a "disproportionate" legal response to criticism over its operations in Thailand"."We feel driven to take this action because we cannot allow Tesco's reputation to be so seriously attacked with such wilful disregard for the truth...

MI5 accused of colluding in torture of terrorist suspects

Posted on April 29, 2008
MI5 accused of colluding in torture of terrorist suspectsBritish agents alleged to have questioned men at Pakistani interrogation centre after they had been brutally mistreatedBy Ian CobainOfficers of the Security Service, MI5, are being accused of "outsourcing" the torture of British citizens to a notorious Pakistani intelligence agency in an attempt to obtain information about terrorist plots and to secure convictions against al-Qaida suspects...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Posted on April 29, 2008
Beauty is in the eye of the beholderIf anybody should apologise it should be Disney for trying to keep her under wraps in cotton wool. This young girl is also a young woman. Time to grow up.Gingersnaps has posted on this and there are some interesting comments.

Is Humpty Dumpty Brown heading for a great fall?

Posted on April 29, 2008
Is Humpty Dumpty Brown heading for a great fall?Unity over at The Ministry of Truth thinks there's a funny smell coming from a skunk.

McCanns: Never mind writing a book, they should be brought to book

Posted on April 28, 2008
McCanns: Never mind writing a book, they should be brought to bookThe latest money making scheme the McCanns have come up with to profit from the disappearance of Madeleine is to publish a book. It is claimed that: "The couple are determined to counter many of the false stories which have been circulating since their daughter disappeared in Praia da Luz on May 3 last year"...

Fat boy slims

Posted on April 28, 2008
Fat boy slimsA US prisoner who entered prison weighing 29 stone is suing the authorities because he has lost 7 stone in weight. He is claiming that he is being starved to death in the process. I have no sympathy for his claim save for his complaint that the prison serves up cold food instead of providing hot meals...

Clarence Mitchell calls the McCanns liars

Posted on April 28, 2008
Clarence Mitchell calls the McCanns liarsIt has emerged that following Gerry and Kate McCanns initial claims that there was evidence of a break-in at their holiday apartment, which the police later stated there was no evidence of a break-in, now Clarence Mitchell has stated that there is no evidence of a break-in at the apartment...

McCanns: Is a private prosecution the only way to get them into court?

Posted on April 28, 2008
McCanns: Is a private prosecution the only way to get them into court?I am seriously considering bringing a private prosecution out against the McCanns because I feel that this is the only way that Madeleine will get the justice she deserves. I am not sure what happened about this attempt by Anthony Bennett...

Nine killed in Honduras jail riot

Posted on April 27, 2008
Nine killed in Honduras jail riot"Nine prisoners have been killed in a jail in northern Honduras during a riot involving knives and machetes.It is understood the fight started after one inmate shot another at the overcrowded prison in San Pedro Sula.Government official Hector Mejia said eight of the victims were gang members...

So this is a cushy life

Posted on April 26, 2008
So this is a cushy lifeOutrage over prisons is best saved for the reality: ever more overcrowding and damaged inmatesErwin James responds to this pile of crap with a well written and well thought out counter argument.Here we go again. Contrary to what we are constantly told by liberals, do-gooders and bleeding hearts, prison is just a great big wheeze...

The Three Suspects

Posted on April 26, 2008
The Three SuspectsOn the one hand, the genuine case of a child abduction, for example, that reported in today's Daily Telegraph, "Ed Smart, whose 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth was abducted at knifepoint from her bed in Salt Lake City, Utah, in June 2002, was found - along with her abductor - the following March after a sustained and high-profile campaign"...

Mother fined for dropping 'a bit of sausage roll'

Posted on April 25, 2008
Mother fined for dropping 'a bit of sausage roll'Oh for fucks sake! What is the world coming to? If I was her I would challenge them to produce the litter given that the pidgeons ate the evidence! Haven't those idiots heard of using discretion?

Padre Pio pilgrims flock to see saint's body

Posted on April 25, 2008
Padre Pio pilgrims flock to see saint's bodySo much for Rest In Peace!

Which is it your honour? You can't have it both ways.

Posted on April 25, 2008
Which is it your honour? You can't have it both ways."In my mind these are serious crimes, albeit misdemeanors," Judge Hodges said.

Inmates ignore escape chance in 'cushy' prison

Posted on April 25, 2008
Inmates ignore escape chance in 'cushy' prisonFor now, one word. Bollocks. (I will try to get back to this story later, presently I am working on a breakthrough in the McCann saga which will be a bombshell for Gerry and Kate McCann and Clarence Louse...

Iain Dale guilty of being a plagiarist and racist

Posted on April 25, 2008
Iain Dale guilty of being a plagiarist and racistThe Tories should be as angry as the votersAnd my response..."It is funny that Iain Dale states "provides good copy for people like me" because that is exactly what a plagiarist does. Straight out of the mouth of a BBC reporter "With Gordon Brown, you always have to read the small print" and onto this page without quotation marks and attributing credit to the source...

Sarcasm don't you just love it?

Posted on April 25, 2008
Sarcasm don't you just love it? click to enlargeHat-Tip Gingersnaps.

World Have Your Say

Posted on April 24, 2008
World Have Your SayThe BBC World Service have just phoned me to take part in the programme tonight from 6 until 8 or 8.30. As I understand it, the topic under discussion will be whether the Americans have got it right to imprison so many of its citizens...

McCanns: Wake up and smell the coffee

Posted on April 24, 2008
McCanns: Wake up and smell the coffeeHere we go again. Yesterday the media advertised a forthcoming documentary made by ITV of the suspected child killers Gerry and Kate McCann as they employ a smokescreen for a Europe-wide Amber Alert. And today the media is advertising a Radio 4 programme which features Rachel Oldfield (one of the Tapas Bar 9)...

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