International Law

Mother thrown out of jobcentre for bottle feeding her baby

Posted on September 02, 2008
Mother thrown out of jobcentre for bottle feeding her babyA young mother looking for work was told to leave a jobcentre because she was bottle feeding her baby."Samantha Corbridge, 24, was thrown out of the Jobcentre Plus office after being told she was breaking the 'food and drink policy' by giving her daughter a bottle of milk"...

It's a nightmare

Posted on September 02, 2008
It's a nightmareIt was my signing on day yesterday. In the morning I recall telling James Higham of Nourishing Obscurity, who was staying with me at the time, that I had to sign on at 3.55pm at Brittania House. Then it went out of my mind. At 3.30 James returned from the City Centre, when I should have been setting off for the Job Centre, and at 3...

Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives

Posted on September 01, 2008
Nigerian man to divorce 82 wivesA Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them, local authorities say.With 86 wives and over 170 children, I am wondering if Mr Abubakar has got a television?

Third body found at Shropshire murder mansion

Posted on September 01, 2008
Third body found at Shropshire murder mansionPolice sifting through the rubble of a fire-ravaged mansion in Shropshire have found a third body.The body has yet to be identified, although the search at Osbaston House, which was burnt to the ground almost a week ago, has focused on the missing 15-year-old, Kirstie Foster...

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A duty of care ? to prisoners or victims?

Posted on September 01, 2008
A duty of care ? to prisoners or victims?By David WilsonQuestions are being asked of Scotland's Prison Service after two major crimes were committed by inmates on home leave"Moving prisoners to open conditions and then granting them home leave in the community is always fraught with challenges and difficulties, especially when prisons are overcrowded ? which encourages prison officials to move inappropriate prisoners to lower security establishments to create more space in local and training prisons, and when in one or two high profile cases the decision that they make proves catastrophic because the prisoner commits further crimes...

McCain's chick

Posted on August 31, 2008
McCain's chickSource: Olly's Onions.Hat-Tip: Bob Piper.

Jails 'hold 8,500 ex-servicemen'

Posted on August 31, 2008
Jails 'hold 8,500 ex-servicemen'Up to 8,500 former members of the armed forces are serving sentences in UK prisons, it has been claimed.Probation staff union Napo said its figures suggested about one in every 11 prisoners used to be in the forces.It has led the union and Plaid Cymru MP Elfyn Llwyd to claim there is a lack of support for ex-service personnel...

'Alarming' rise in self-harming at detention centres

Posted on August 31, 2008
'Alarming' rise in self-harming at detention centresHome Office figures reveal the desperate mental state of asylum-seekers locked up within the UK's immigration systemIncidences of self-harm in immigration detention centres rose 73 per cent in the first six months of this year, Home Office figures have revealed...

A rose by any other name - Just Joey

Posted on August 31, 2008
A rose by any other name - Just JoeyHat-Tip to Cherrypie

Who's who?

Posted on August 30, 2008
Who's who?Billionaire Tory Party treasurer Harry Hill is to separate some of his hard earned cash destined for the Tory Party coffers to give to Michael Spencer's wife Lorraine. Michael Spencer is a comedian on ITV.

Killer of headteacher Philip Lawrence 'is freed'

Posted on August 30, 2008
Killer of headteacher Philip Lawrence 'is freed'The killer of headteacher Philip Lawrence has been freed from prison, it has been reported."Learco Chindamo, jailed for life for stabbing to death the father of four in 1995, has been given a new identity...

Two bodies found at arson house

Posted on August 30, 2008
Two bodies found at arson housePolice have revealed that two bodies have been recovered overnight from the burnt-out Shropshire home of a millionaire and his family.I suspect that the two bodies will be those of the wife and daughter, murdered by the husband and father...

Super-jails are waste of £1bn, say governors

Posted on August 30, 2008
Super-jails are waste of £1bn, say governorsPrison officers, governors and penal reform groups will today condemn plans to build up to three 2,500-space jails as a waste of more than £1 billion of taxpayers? money, while in a separate warning, prison governors say that there is a danger of staff losing control of the so-called ?Titan? jails...

Barking mad in Hull

Posted on August 30, 2008
Barking mad in HullI am rather confused whether the Humberside Police, Crown Prosecution Service or their dog behaviourist is barking mad, or whether they all are?A Park Warden claimed my dog Rocky bit him on the ankle.I was charged with common assault and being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control...

Police Subaru and BMW car chases in Hull

Posted on August 30, 2008
Police Subaru and BMW car chases in HullHumberside Police Subaru unit vs Metro HullSubaru & BMW Traffic Cops Hull

BBC misreports Red Ken's role in race claim

Posted on August 30, 2008
BBC misreports Red Ken's role in race claimI am surprised that the BBC is reporting Ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone rejects claims Sir Ian Blair is guilty of racism. Given that it is the role of the employment tribunal to decide whether Deputy Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur's claims have merit.

The Big Tent

Posted on August 29, 2008
The Big TentMore bloggers have been accredited for the US conventions than ever before but what are they adding to the media circus? Oliver Burkeman went to find outVideo link.Related content...Tories must harness power of the internet to spread the wordIf you were running a political party, and you were presented with an opportunity to promote your message free of charge to millions of people, raise millions of pounds in small donations and bypass the vultures of print and broadcast media, you'd take it, wouldn't you?Methinks Iain Dale is doing a Yosser Hughes impersonation, that is, "Gissajob I can do that".

Titan prisons will only brutalise their inmates

Posted on August 29, 2008
Titan prisons will only brutalise their inmatesIt is a dangerous myth that giant institutions are more effective"The idea that giant institutions are efficient is a primitive superstition that daily experience disproves, so is just the kind of thing that British governments are inclined to believe...

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Posted on August 29, 2008
The Man Who Fell to EarthI have had the blogger who calls himself "James Higham" of Nourishing Obscurity staying with me since last Saturday. He said he was going to catch the last train from London to Hull. I planned my day accordingly. I was in the middle of doing something when the phone rang, it was James, he said he was in Hull and had caught an earlier train, was in a pub and would I come and meet him...

Black humour

Posted on August 28, 2008
Black humourCan someone tell me what is the difference between this cartoon and Bob Piper posting a photoshop image of a blacked out David Cameron?

Prison reformers condemn new 'Titan' jails as a 'gigantic mistake'

Posted on August 28, 2008
Prison reformers condemn new 'Titan' jails as a 'gigantic mistake'If this was a listening government, instead of having a consultation process which just goes through the motions because a decision has already been reached to go ahead with Titan Prisons, perhaps we could avoid a Titanic mistake...

Police line do not cross

Posted on August 28, 2008
Police line do not crossJames Higham (Nourishing Obscurity) and I took Rocky for his morning walk in Pearson Park. I had arranged to meet Tony my tobacco supplier under the "Brandenberg Gate". When he opened the boot of his car, I noticed 3 decorative Samurai swords...

Sausage roll case dismissed

Posted on August 28, 2008
Sausage roll case dismissedMagistrates have dismissed the case of a Hull woman who refused to pay a fine for dropping a sausage roll. Video link.

Pictures of the day: 28 August 2008

Posted on August 28, 2008
Pictures of the day: 28 August 2008A two-week-old giraffe is nuzzled by her mother, Fanny, at the Brookfield Zoo in ChicagoA yet-unnamed new-born elephant is helped by his mother and keepers to get back to his mother, Portland, OregonA polar bear is seen in the water during an aerial survey off the Alaska coastA harbor seal looks from a wheelbarrow at the harbor seal station in Friedrichskoog on the North Sea, northern Germany

Proof that PCSOs are little Hitlers?

Posted on August 28, 2008
Proof that PCSOs are little Hitlers?A police support officer has been suspended after colleagues accused him of goose-stepping around an office and making Nazi salutes."The PCSO was previously removed from Kentish Town Safer Neighbourhoods Team for suggesting to a black colleague that there was nothing wrong in voting for the far-right British National Party"...

Jail for child torturer who massacred family

Posted on August 28, 2008
Jail for child torturer who massacred familyA serial sex offender has been sentenced to death in Idaho for the torture and murder of a nine-year-old boy who was abused in front of his younger sister. "urors deliberated for just three hours over Joseph Duncan after watching a videotape he made of his rape and torture of Dylan Groene as he hung from a wire noose...

Iberian wolf pup

Posted on August 27, 2008
Iberian wolf pupOne of four Iberian wolf pups born at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent just a few months ago makes its first public appearance

Driving ban given to Darren Day

Posted on August 27, 2008
Driving ban given to Darren DayActor Darren Day has been banned from driving for 18 months after he admitted being over the drink drive limit when he was stopped in June.In mitigation for being found guilty of drink driving, an actor offers this explanation:"I have three children and my wife to support"...

Horses found dead in arson probe

Posted on August 27, 2008
Horses found dead in arson probeThree horses have been found dead in the grounds of a house at the centre of a suspected arson attack where a family of three remain unaccounted for.This sounds quite ominous.UPDATE:Arson attack family still missingA couple and their teenage daughter remain unaccounted for after a severe fire at their Shropshire home.

Sit...

Posted on August 27, 2008
Sit...Treat children like dogs, says animal behaviour expertAs appalling as this may sound, I do actually believe there is some truth in this. I often think of my dog Rocky as a child, he can be demanding of attention just like a child...

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