International Law

Good result good result

Posted on October 19, 2008
Good result good resultWest Ham Till I Cry supporter Iain Dale eat your heart out. The Tigers bit the pork squealers on the bum.Hull City FC 1West Ham United 0

Prison: the Scandinavian exception

Posted on October 18, 2008
Prison: the Scandinavian exceptionA visit to Norway shows a much more humane approach to crime, reflected in lower prison populations: how do they do it?I'm sitting in Oslo having lunch with the director general of the Norwegian prison service ? Kristin Bolgen Bronebakk ? and we are discussing "Scandinavian exceptionalism"...

Prisoner not the prison to blame

Posted on October 18, 2008
Prisoner not the prison to blameI think the Daily Telegraph rather misses the point here latching onto the prosecution's comment to the jury "You may think Kirklevington is more of a holiday camp than a resettlement prison". I am somewhat puzzled why the prosecution felt it necessary to even make the statement...

Commission on English Prisons Today

Posted on October 18, 2008
Commission on English Prisons TodayIt isn't immediately obvious from the Commission on English Prisons Today website that this initiative is not government commissioned, but instead is driven by the Howard League. Hence the claim to be an independent commission...

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Autumn leaves

Posted on October 18, 2008
Autumn leavesVisitors to Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire enjoy the autumn colours along the trails, Picture: PAGolden colours are reflected in the River Cam in Cambridge as a man punts along the river, Picture: PAThe colours of Autumn surround a bridge in The Garden House, Buckland Monachorum, in Devon, Picture: IRVING OF EXETERA visitor walks through trees towards the pagoda at the Royal Botanic Gardens at KewPicture: PAA woman walks her dog through Burton's Court in Chelsea, Picture: GETTYOrange leaves against a blue sky in Ashton Park, Bristol, Picture: CHRISTOPHER JONESFallen leaves lie on a path by the Thames opposite Canary Wharf, Picture: PAGardeners clear up the fallen autumn leaves in Green Park, London, Picture: PAA woman takes in the view from Primrose Hill in London, Picture: JANE MINGAYSunlight catches leaves on trees as the early morning mist lingers in a valley near Bath, Picture: PAA deer cools off in Bushy Park, Richmond, Picture: PATwo hedgehogs, who were rescued as babies, play in autumn leaves in TwickenhamPicture: CLARA MOLDENA squirrel amongst the fallen leaves in Calderstones Park, Liverpool, picture:PA

Tory elephant in the room

Posted on October 17, 2008
Tory elephant in the roomMy initial reaction was that the search involved looking for Dave's policies. However, on the other hand...If anyone can find George Osborne, tell him his country needs him

Friday caption competition

Posted on October 17, 2008
Friday caption competition

Police clash with police in Brazil violence

Posted on October 17, 2008
Police clash with police in Brazil violenceStriking police officers were embroiled in a mass-melee with hundreds of their own colleagues in riot gear who policed their protest, amid bizarre scenes in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.The clashes between state police and plainclothes investigators last night came after the demonstrators tried to break through a barrier protecting the state government palace...

You cannot sue God... he has no known address

Posted on October 17, 2008
You cannot sue God... he has no known addressAn American politician's attempt to sue God has been thrown out of court after a judge ruled the suit could not be served because the Almighty has an unlisted address.Ernie Chambers, a Nebraska state senator, sought a "permanent injunction" that ordered God to stop causing "widespread death, destruction and terrorisation of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants"...

Somalia the under reported war

Posted on October 16, 2008
Somalia the under reported war."Mark Doyle gains rare access to the Somalian capital of Mogadishu, the epicentre of the violence in the country.The United Nations says it is probably the most difficult place in the world for humanitarian workers to operate in - where three million people are in dire need of aid"...

Prison restaurant offers gourmet meals cooked by convicts

Posted on October 16, 2008
Prison restaurant offers gourmet meals cooked by convictsA restaurant will offer a captivating dining experience by offering gourmet food in prison cooked and served by inmates. Diners must hand over valuables, undergo a body search and pass through several reinforced steel doors to before being seated at Britain's newest gastronomic venture...

Prisoner guilty of murder order

Posted on October 16, 2008
Prisoner guilty of murder orderAn inmate has been found guilty of ordering a murder from his cell using a mobile phone smuggled into the prison.Irony of ironies..."At the time, he had been on remand at the jail on an unrelated matter of which he was later found not guilty".

The Big Picture photography competition: round 24

Posted on October 16, 2008
The Big Picture photography competition: round 24This week's winner is Lewis Outing from Woodthorpe, York for this moody landscape facing south from Cullernose Point near Howick on the Northumbrian coast.A temple is framed by the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Lijiang, China...

Don't abandon a real pup buy a toy dog instead

Posted on October 16, 2008
Don't abandon a real pup buy a toy dog insteadI found a puppy that had been abandoned in Pearson Park this morning when I took Rocky for his walk. It was curled up and trembling. I thought about the saying that 'a dog is for life not just for Christmas'...

Pure genius

Posted on October 15, 2008
Pure genius

In the face of perversity

Posted on October 15, 2008
In the face of perversityA 34-year-old man who has lived in London for three decades is to be deported to Somalia after a judge said his criminal record qualified him to survive in the war-torn country.There is something perverse about attempting to deport someone who has lived in this country sine he was 4 years of age, and is now 34...

Work a four letter swear word

Posted on October 15, 2008
Work a four letter swear wordI have a brief to write 4 executive summaries of 4 Prison Service Orders for Inside Time - The National Newspaper for Prisoners. They are PSOs 2000 adjudications, 4000 incentives and earned privileges, 4275 time in the open air, and 4411 prisoner communications - correspondance (sic Prison Service misspelling)...

Long arm of the law...

Posted on October 14, 2008
Long arm of the law...Man arrested over rape 28 years agoDetectives armed with new forensic evidence arrested a man today in connection with the rape of a teenage girl 28 years ago.A 62-year-old man was arrested at his home in Swanscombe, Kent, by officers from Thames Valley Police...

It's for you...

Posted on October 14, 2008
It's for you...IMHO I would say that the car is actually stationary when this photograph was actually taken.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith comes out with a one liner

Posted on October 14, 2008
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith comes out with a one linerThe Home Secretary said the one-line bill could be rushed through Parliament in a matter of hours in the event of a terrorist attack.If it wasn't so serious it would be a joke...

Lazy dog walker earns Great North Bum title

Posted on October 14, 2008
Lazy dog walker earns Great North Bum titleA father has been named one of the laziest men in Britain for walking his pet dog while sitting in his car. Kevin Pyle, 35, gets his son to drive him slowly around the block and, with his arm stretched out of the window, holds a lead attached to his bull mastiff Bruce, who walks alongside...

Hapless shoelace burglar jailed

Posted on October 14, 2008
Hapless shoelace burglar jailedA hapless burglar found hanging upside down from a window by his shoelaces has been jailed for three years.I don't believe that a £20 a day heroin habit is really a habit at all. For his lawyer to claim he "needed" the money for drugs and alcohol is incorrect, he wanted it is more like...

'Secret inquests' plans dropped

Posted on October 14, 2008
'Secret inquests' plans droppedMinisters have dropped plans which would have allowed coroners' inquests to be held in private.The government will not pursue a clause in its controversial counter-terrorism bill to allow inquests to be held in private due to "national security"...

Is Lord West a traitor to the House of Lords?

Posted on October 14, 2008
Is Lord West a traitor to the House of Lords?It does appear as though Lord West is the puppet of Jacqui Smith.Create the climate of fear in order to pass oppressive and repressive legislation.It does not sit comfortably Lord West sat both in the House of Lords and on the lap of the Home Secretary.

NHS trust to buy £400,000 yacht

Posted on October 14, 2008
NHS trust to buy £400,000 yachtA health trust is planning to spend £400,000 on a 72ft yacht to help jobless teenagers make better "lifestyle choices". Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust is behind the scheme designed to help improve the long-term health prospects of teenagers.

Just answer me this

Posted on October 13, 2008
Just answer me thisGovernment to press ahead with 42-day detention plan

School bans sugar in tea

Posted on October 13, 2008
School bans sugar in tea Children at a secondary school have been told they cannot have sugar in their tea because of concern about healthy eating.Just another brick in the wall...

Mojo Radio is music to my ears

Posted on October 13, 2008
Mojo Radio is music to my earsI don't usually go in for advertising on this blog. However, I feel that Mojo Radio deserves a plug. If you're an oldie and into 60s and 70s music it should appeal to you. The woofer on the floor beneath my desk vibrates a deep bass up my feet to reach parts other radio stations fail to reach.

Money and the lack of and Red Cross food parcels etc

Posted on October 13, 2008
Money and the lack of and Red Cross food parcels etcI feel like a prisoner of war in this war on want. Yesterday afternoon RonKnee arrived at the door with a couple of Red Cross food parcels (two shopping bags). Rocky did his bark cum whine, 'quick open the door I know he he has brought me some treats and gives me a fuss'...

Menezes officer changed evidence

Posted on October 13, 2008
Menezes officer changed evidenceAn investigation has begun after an officer admitted changing evidence during the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes.The Special Branch officer, named as Owen, said he deleted a line from computer notes which quoted Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick...

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