Police to be given another license to run amok
Everybody knows what happened when the police were given stop and search powers for anti terrorism purposes. They abused it on a prodigious level, comparatively rarely using it for the […]
2011
One law for the rich, another law for the rest of us
The libel laws in Britain were originally constructed to protect the nobility and gentry from tales told by their servants. As such they are engineered to be very difficult and […]
Syria today
And still the world sits on its collective hands. Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of people have taken, bravely, to the streets again to protest at their lack of basic […]
Don’t forget Bahrain
The above video gives you an idea just how brutal the regime is, using massively excessive force against their own people to retain undemocratic power. Amazingly the barbaric regime is […]
That $25 million Osama bin Laden reward
There are a couple of things that don’t quite add up over the demise of Osama bin Laden. The first is that the American story of how they found him […]
Man who “posed no threat” unlawfully killed by PC Simon Harwood
The police in Britain are a deeply flawed institution in urgent need of fundamental reform as this case demonstrates and as I have written on here before. Certainly if Ian […]
Europe rescues Portugal. Ha ha ha
So the rich countries in the Europe are once again riding to the rescue of a country that has behaved very badly. Portugal’s problems are structural, their economy is uncompetitive […]
The Economist proposes a better voting system
I have explained already here why the proposed Alternative Vote (AV) voting system is a bad idea. In fact even its chief proponent, Nick Clegg, described it as a […]
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was just as much “made in America” as a Chevrolet Corvette is. He was a product of the proxy war that America ran […]
Syria. 90 unarmed peaceful protestors shot dead on Friday.
Even Obama is talking tough: “This outrageous use of violence to quell protests must come to an end now”. But just as the Saudis sent troops to support the nasty regime […]
Mission creep in Libya
Mission creep seems to be inevitable in any military venture, the Americans sent a few military advisers to Vietnam and ended up in a long and bloody war, we went […]
The disability gravy train
Professor Steven Hawking was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years yet he was almost completely paralysed with motor neurone disease. Sir Frank Williams is […]