International Law

Met Chief Blair caught out in corruption scandal

Posted on August 17, 2008
Met Chief Blair caught out in corruption scandalSir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, illegally bugged Tarique Ghaffur, an assistant commissioner, who is alleging that Blair has subjected him to racial discrimination. Moreover, Blair has been accused of awarding a £3M contract for police work to his close friend Andy Miller...

Mother covered up babies' deaths

Posted on August 16, 2008
Mother covered up babies' deathsA woman has admitted covering up the birth and burial of two babies at a property in Plymouth.Kerry Ardis, 21, of Poole Park Road in the Barne Barton area of the Devon city, pleaded guilty to four charges at the city's crown court...

Detainees continue hunger strike

Posted on August 16, 2008
Detainees continue hunger strike"Detainees at an immigration removal centre are beginning their second week on a hunger strike".People are not bothered if they starve themselves to death. The Olympic show must go on...

Buzzards spread wings across UK ? but where have the kestrels gone?

Posted on August 16, 2008
Buzzards spread wings across UK ? but where have the kestrels gone?Kestrelbuzzardlapwing

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Bobby Sands leaves Benn in tears

Posted on August 15, 2008
Bobby Sands leaves Benn in tearsTony Benn broke down in tears at the Edinburgh Book Festival as he recalled the late Bobby Sands, the republican MP who died while on hunger strike in the Maze prison, Belfast, in 1981. ?Our revenge, Bobby Sands said, will be the laughter of our children,? he said, as tears began to stream down his cheeks...

Man banned from sex at love nest

Posted on August 15, 2008
Man banned from sex at love nestA man has been banned by a court from having sex with his partner at her home after keeping neighbours awake with loud shouting and banging in the night.The mind boggles. What was he doing, beating a drum and shouting through a megaphone "In Out, In Out...

Garden birds nest earlier due to climate change

Posted on August 15, 2008
Garden birds nest earlier due to climate changeRelated links...Keep feeding the birds this SummerGarden birds decline by 20% in 4 yearsBritish woodland birds in tail-spin of decline

Bridget Prentice MP misleads Parliament

Posted on August 14, 2008
Bridget Prentice MP misleads ParliamentBridget Prentice, Labour, Member of Parliament for Lewisham East and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, has misled Parliament with this answer. The Governance of Britain Green Paper and the Goldsmith Review have nothing whatsoever to do with convicted prisoners human right to vote...

Deeds not words: Let's have some action on prisoners voting rights

Posted on August 14, 2008
Deeds not words: Let's have some action on prisoners voting rightsRobert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what plans he has to extend voting rights to sentenced prisoners in England and Wales. [218573]Bridget Prentice: Following the European Court of Human Rights? judgment in the case of Hirst v...

Adding insult to injury

Posted on August 14, 2008
Adding insult to injuryMr McCullough said he had never slapped Jess before. She has apologised. Am I reading this right? He slaps her, and she apologises?

Sea eagles released in secret location

Posted on August 14, 2008
Sea eagles released in secret locationA batch of white tailed sea eagles are being released from a secret location in Fife in a bid to reintroduce the species to the east of Scotland.Video link here.

Record payout for false imprisonment

Posted on August 14, 2008
Record payout for false imprisonmentGiven that the Home Office has agreed that £700,000 compensation should be awarded to Colin Stagg for a year in custody, surely that means Barry George should be entitled to at least £5.5M? And, the Birmingham 6 etc ought to receive top up payments taking them to at least £10M!

Whatever next?

Posted on August 14, 2008
Whatever next?Dead body lay in ward for seven hoursJust because a relative wished that the corpse remained in situ.I think beds in hospital wards are for live patients. Once a patient expires, then it should be removed to the morgue, maybe even a chapel or a side room...

Father kills daughter in revenge for wife's infidelity with a judge

Posted on August 14, 2008
Father kills daughter in revenge for wife's infidelity with a judgeA father who drugged then suffocated his three-year-old daughter in revenge for his wife's infidelity was jailed for life yesterday after being convicted of her murder.A judge has resigned after his affair with a married woman ended in her husband killing their daughter...

Childkillers McCanns waste more money trying to clear their names

Posted on August 13, 2008
Childkillers McCanns waste more money trying to clear their namesMadeleine McCann's parents have hired a US private investigator firm made up of former CIA and FBI agents and special forces veterans as part of a renewed push to find their missing daughter, it was reported...

Old lags

Posted on August 13, 2008
Old lagsTougher sentences have meant the number of pensioners in prison has surged by a third in just three years. A report from Anne Owers, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, found that the number of male prisoners over 60 jumped by 34 per cent to 2,192 between June 2004 and August last year...

Eagles' in-flight food fight

Posted on August 13, 2008
Eagles' in-flight food fightA white-breasted sea eagle with a six-feet wingspan expertly scooped up a fish at Seven Mile Beach in the Kiama area of New South Wales in Australia.But as it soared effortlessly into the skies with its prize the adult female was buzzed by her own fledgling daughter...

A spell of bother

Posted on August 12, 2008
A spell of botherBad spelling 'should be accepted'Common spelling mistakes should be accepted into everyday use, not corrected, a lecturer has said.On the other hand...'Illiterate' worker angers judge An angry judge has branded a prosecution worker an "illiterate idiot" after spotting several spelling mistakes in an indictment.

Madeleine McCann 'seen again' in Brussels

Posted on August 12, 2008
Madeleine McCann 'seen again' in BrusselsA girl resembling Madeleine McCann was spotted for a second time on the same day and in the same area as an earlier sighting, it has been reported.YAWN!

Oh Shit

Posted on August 12, 2008
Oh ShitGiant inflatable turd escapes moorings and brings down electricity lineAn inflatable dog turd the size of a house has blown away from a modern art exhibition in a Swiss museum before bringing down an electricity line and smashing a greenhouse window.

Asylum seekers on hunger strike

Posted on August 12, 2008
Asylum seekers on hunger strikeAbout 60 people are taking part in a hunger strike started by 13 Iraqi Kurds at an Oxfordshire immigration centre.Could this become as embarrassing and a PR disaster like the IRA hunger strikes?

Leopard cubs and kingfisher feeding young

Posted on August 12, 2008
Leopard cubs and kingfisher feeding youngClouded leopard cubsKingfisher feeding young

BT: Oi U2 O 1p

Posted on August 12, 2008
BT: Oi U2 O 1pBT has apologised to a couple after they were theatened with bailiffs over an outstanding bill of just one penny.One wonders at the cost to BT of this palaver?

Sheshatshit

Posted on August 12, 2008
SheshatshitShe did what?In the local brogue, it doesn't sound anything like it looks.Location: Newfoundland, CanadaPicture: Glenn Gooding (hometown: Dersingham, UK)

Former policeman attacked his ex

Posted on August 11, 2008
Former policeman attacked his exA former police sergeant has received a suspended sentence for assaulting a former lover. And the rest...Bullets? From a weapon claimed to be destroyed? Was there a licence for the gun? Given the assault, why did he have the gun?Why did he leave the police force?Why do I feel there was undue leniency in this case?

Former Thai PM flees to the UK

Posted on August 11, 2008
Former Thai PM flees to the UKOusted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has said he will not return to Thailand from the UK.Whatever the rights and wrongs of this case, I found the following amusing..."Meanwhile the Premier League has insisted it is prepared to invoke its "fit and proper persons test" as regards Thaksin's ownership of Manchester City if necessary"...

Soft on knife crime soft on carriers of knives

Posted on August 11, 2008
Soft on knife crime soft on carriers of knivesHang on a minute. What was all this fuss about knife crime? I thought we were supposed to be cracking down on this?An 18-year-old man with a flick knife stabbed an unarmed student to death during a fight has been found guilty of manslaughter...

The cruellest wait

Posted on August 11, 2008
The cruellest waitThe Conservatives are planning to "get tough with the bail system". But shadow justice minister Nick Herbert's view that bail is too easily granted is contradicted by the shocking fact that each year in England and Wales many thousands of innocent people are remanded in prison...

Spot the difference

Posted on August 11, 2008
Spot the differenceInjured United player awarded £4.5mInjured soldiers in Iraq, £230,000!

Either do the job or let someone else do it...

Posted on August 11, 2008
Either do the job or let someone else do it...This is getting pathetic. Health and Safety legislation is just getting abused. Never mind the good will gesture, the postal service is liable and should be sued for more money. It might be that the postman was also throwing letters away rather than delivering them.

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