International Law

Tory dressed up as Madeleine McCann

Posted on January 10, 2009
Tory dressed up as Madeleine McCannMatt Lewis, a member of Conservative Future, boasted that his "bad taste party outfit" included a blonde wig, pink pyjamas, a teddy bear and a vial of fake blood.Other figures from the same organisation joined in the tasteless joke about the missing girl in exchanges on a social networking website...

7 children under 12 murdered by Israel and still Iain Dale supports this

Posted on January 10, 2009
7 children under 12 murdered by Israel and still Iain Dale supports thisA Palestinian doctor, based in Lincoln, has said he feels helpless after 16 members of his family died in an Israeli air attack on Gaza.Seven of those Palestinian family members killed by the Israelis were children under the age of 12 years...

Report critical of prison staff

Posted on January 09, 2009
Report critical of prison staffA report into the suicide of a prisoner at Maghaberry jail has recommended disciplinary procedures against the governor and deputy governor.

Email law 'attacks civil liberties'

Posted on January 09, 2009
Email law 'attacks civil liberties'Looming rules that will force internet companies to keep details of every email sent in the UK are an attack on privacy and a waste of money, it was warned today.From March, all internet service providers (ISP) will have to keep data about emails sent and received in the UK for a year...

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Israel's war crimes as bad as the Nazis

Posted on January 09, 2009
Israel's war crimes as bad as the NazisIsrael bombed Gaza 'safe' house full off evacuees, says UN I don't believe that there is any difference between the Israelis herding Palestinian refugees into a so-called safe house and then bombing the hell out of them, and the Nazis herding Jews into a so-called shower and then gassing them.

Police recapture escaped prisoner

Posted on January 08, 2009
Police recapture escaped prisonerAn armed robber who spent three weeks on the run after escaping from a secure unit has been recaptured.Ashley Waterman, 20, was arrested by armed police officers at an address in west London in the early hours.Waterman, who was serving a five-year term for robbing a branch of McDonald's in Camden, north London, escaped during a visit to a mental health centre...

Prison sentence for benefit cheat

Posted on January 08, 2009
Prison sentence for benefit cheatA benefit cheat from Cornwall has been jailed for 18 months.Michael McQueen from Penwarne Farm, Mawnan Smith, swindled more than £51,000 from the Department of Work and Pensions(DWP), Truro Crown Court heard.McQueen was receiving disability living allowance, incapacity benefit, income support, housing benefit and council tax relief while working full time...

Prison football team gets ex-Juventus manager

Posted on January 08, 2009
Prison football team gets ex-Juventus managerFormer Juventus football club general manager Luciano Moggi has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of corruption.

How can Iain Dale support this?

Posted on January 07, 2009
How can Iain Dale support this?Given this?

Massacre of innocents as UN school is shelled

Posted on January 07, 2009
Massacre of innocents as UN school is shelledHundreds of Palestinians had fled their homes for the refuge of the al-Fakhoura school, hoping the blue and white flag of the UN flying over the impromptu shelter would protect them from the Israeli onslaught...

Suicide inmate's mother warned prison

Posted on January 07, 2009
Suicide inmate's mother warned prisonInquest hears staff were 'repeatedly' told of prisoner's deteriorating mental stateThe mother of a prisoner who was found hanged in the segregation cell of a troubled privately run prison after being placed on suicide watch told an inquest yesterday how she repeatedly warned officers of her son's deteriorating mental state...

Israeli court condemns Israel's deliberately killing Palestinian civilians

Posted on January 07, 2009
Israeli court condemns Israel's deliberately killing Palestinian civiliansWhen The Israeli supreme court today upheld the government's blockade of fuel and electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, it also ruled that "Israel still had an obligation under international law to avoid "deliberately" harming Palestinian civilians"...

War criminal to award a war criminal with a medal of freedom

Posted on January 06, 2009
War criminal to award a war criminal with a medal of freedomBlair to get US Medal of FreedomFormer UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will receive the highest civilian award in the US - the Presidential Medal of Freedom - next week.War criminal to award a war criminal with a medal of freedom? Does this mean that Tony Blair will get out of jail free if he is ever put on trial at the Hague and convicted?Story here.

Love they neighbour...

Posted on January 06, 2009
Love they neighbour...Vicar arrested over hedge disputeA County Durham vicar has been arrested after a dispute with his neighbour over the height of a hedge, it has emerged.The row broke out between the Reverend Stuart Bennett and Brian Stokoe after complaints about the 20ft (6m) hedges at the vicarage in Castleside, Consett...

Former heroin addict spared jail

Posted on January 06, 2009
Former heroin addict spared jailA judge has admitted taking a "significant risk" by allowing a man who carried out nearly 150 thefts and burglaries to stay out of prison.Former drug addict Dean Weaver walked free from court after Judge Martin Picton said his "substantial progress" meant he could rehabilitate in freedom...

Israel breaches Geneva Convention with attack upon school

Posted on January 06, 2009
Israel breaches Geneva Convention with attack upon schoolLink.The UN had given Israel GPS coordinates of their humanitarian centres, and the school attack has to be a war crime. Israel is censoring its news as is the BBC, and the US is pro the terrorist state of Israel...

Rhys murderer attacked in prison

Posted on January 05, 2009
Rhys murderer attacked in prisonThe teenager who murdered schoolboy Rhys Jones has been attacked in jail, the Prison Service has confirmed.Sean Mercer, 18, was assaulted at HMP Moorland in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, but the incident was stopped by the "timely intervention" of staff...

Snowy owl seen in England

Posted on January 05, 2009
Snowy owl seen in EnglandThe bird, which is a native of the Arctic Circle, and is usually found in Greenland, Canada and Russia, has been seen at Zennor, near St Ives.

Gobble Darling?

Posted on January 05, 2009
Gobble Darling?Photo nicked from RonKnee

Why is Labour so keen to imprison us?

Posted on January 05, 2009
Why is Labour so keen to imprison us?A quite extraordinary statistic has been dug out of the deepest quarries of Whitehall by a diligent government official following an inquiry about the number of laws introduced by Labour since taking office in 1997...

N Power is a gasmeter bandit

Posted on January 04, 2009
N Power is a gasmeter banditOn Christmas Eve I put £20 on my gas card to feed my gas guzzling meter and was angered to see that 25% of the £20, ie, £5 was deducted by N Power and I was left with only £15 worth of gas for my 20 quid.Yesterday, I put another £20 on my gas card and this time N Power stole £5...

Israel's massacre of Hamas is part of the Final Solution

Posted on January 04, 2009
Israel's massacre of Hamas is part of the Final SolutionWhy Israel went to war in Gaza'Are you a target if you voted for Hamas?' Last night Israel sent its ground forces across the border into Gaza as it escalated its brutal assault on Hamas. As a large-scale invasion of the Palestinian territory appears to be getting under way, Chris McGreal reports from Jerusalem on Israel's hidden strategy to persuade the world of the justice of its cause in its battle with a bitter ideological foeIt is past time that America stopped supporting the Terrorist state of Israel...

No General Election in 2009

Posted on January 04, 2009
No General Election in 2009Having watched the BBC yesterday build up that Gordon Brown was to be interviewed by Andrew Marr today, I was disappointed by the lack of fireworks and save for poking the Tories in the eye over their early election predictions it turned out to be a damp squib...

Tory Party funded by proceeds of crime

Posted on January 03, 2009
Tory Party funded by proceeds of crimePolice get £60,000 criminal cashNearly £60,000 seized from criminals will fight crime in Devon and Cornwall.The money allocated for Devon and Cornwall Police is part of £5.4m for forces across England and Wales.The money was recovered between July and September 2008 and compares with just over £3...

We owe these men a reprieve from hell

Posted on January 03, 2009
We owe these men a reprieve from hellI believe that the Guantánamo detainees we have investigated represent no danger to BritainClive Stafford Smith For some years now, the British Government has professed the wrongness of Guantánamo Bay. Tony Blair called it an ?anomaly?; others were more forthright...

Canberra rejects Guantanamo cases

Posted on January 03, 2009
Canberra rejects Guantanamo casesAustralia has formally rejected a US request to take in detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military jail.Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the decision was based on "stringent national security and immigration considerations...

Muslim family thrown off US jet for 'remarks'

Posted on January 03, 2009
Muslim family thrown off US jet for 'remarks'Nine Muslims, eight of them US-born citizens, were ordered off a US flight on New Year's Day after two girls overheard what airline officials described as suspicious remarks.The group, including three children, were removed as they boarded an AirTran flight from Washington to Florida, where they planned to attend a religious retreat...

A short film directed by Jailhouselawyer

Posted on January 02, 2009
A short film directed by JailhouselawyerI went from minus 5 degrees Celsius outside to the Tropical heat inside the Victorian Conservatory. Note the lens steam up and the remote lens cleaner. Rocky can be heard barking outside. Trying out my new memory camcorder...

Lord Goldsmith: Britain should accept Guantanamo prisoners

Posted on January 02, 2009
Lord Goldsmith: Britain should accept Guantanamo prisonersBritain should be prepared to accept prisoners from Guantanamo Bay if it would help the Americans close the camp, Lord Goldsmith has said. "Tony Blair's former attorney general said that the continued existence of the camp, established by the administration of President George Bush following the 9/11 attacks, was damaging the West...

Simply beautiful a snow leopard

Posted on January 02, 2009
Simply beautiful a snow leopardShelby, a three-year old female snow leopard reclines in the freshly snow covered greenery at the Bronx Zoo's Himalayan Highlands exhibit, in New YorkPicture: AP

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