Our nanny state and America wants to draw up international rules for English language websites. Why the fu*ck do they think they hold the moral views of everyone on the planet? I can see net access being controlled more here than it is in China. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7800846.stm

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TIRELESS: Sara and PM Gordon Brown at our awards It's For Sarah Brave mum honoured for campaign to protect kids HONOURED: Sara will pick up her MBE for services to child safety By Hayley Barlow and Ryan Sabey, 28/12/2008

Why is 'sexual identity' any of the Government's business? Here is a story for our times. A local authority has withdrawn the grant it gives to provide warden services at a care home because the residents have refused to answer "intrusive" questions about their sexuality. By Philip Johnston Last Updated: 5:01PM GMT 28 Dec 2008

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/2000-caught-in-crackdown-on.4820518.jp From the above report "One driver was spotted talking into a handset held by his passenger – a move which is also illegal." This would imply that talking to a passenger was an offence

From "The Observer": quote Britain's soaring prison population is being driven by government policies rather than crime levels, according to an internal Whitehall briefing document seen by the Observer. The paper, a presentation to ministers and civil servants drawn up by the Ministry of Justice, explains in detail how new measures introduced by Labour have driven the prison population...

on the crimestoppers most wanted site: 16 people are being looked for: their crime: indecent chanting hard to believe but true: http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/wanted/ surely some of the murderers and violent criminals are a bit more important? or is that just my imagination?

From "The Observer": quote Britain's soaring prison population is being driven by government policies rather than crime levels, according to an internal Whitehall briefing document seen by the Observer. The paper, a presentation to ministers and civil servants drawn up by the Ministry of Justice, explains in detail how new measures introduced by Labour have driven the prison population...

Can anyone tell me what the Local Land Charges Register is? How is registering something in it different from registering the same thing with the Land Registry? I'm asking because we have had a case of someone in this area being allowed to get away with an unauthorised development provided they abide by certain conditions. Those conditions have been apparently been registered in the "Local...

Big Brother CCTV to spy on pupils aged four - complete with CPS evidence kit By Jason Lewis Shadow Children's Minister Tim Loughton is chairman of Classwatch Schools have installed CCTV cameras and microphones in classrooms to watch and listen to pupils as young as four.

Our house is just about to have a large tunnel bored beneath it as part of the southern extension to the Thames Water Ring Main. I am eager to get a feel for the number of claims submitted as a result of earlier tunneling work carried out for the ring main during the last 30 years. The Water Industry Act 1991 provides for two types of compensation claim:- a) Actual damage cause to property above...

The Homophobic Hate campaign by English Churches Housing Group (ECHG),Hammersmith & Fulham Council and The Metropolitan Police is still continuing – at the moment my tormentors think it is acceptable to run a Hate campaign and they do not think they have done anything wrong. The authorities know who I am, but they think it is acceptable for a group of people to run a homophobic hate campaign. I...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3933716/Shopkeepers-banned-from-serving-customers-glass-of-mulled-wine.html "Shopkeepers have hit out at police after they were banned from serving their customers a glass of mulled wine. Last Updated: 2:21PM GMT 24 Dec 2008 Traders in Anstruther, Fife, were told they must apply for an alcohol licence if they wanted to continue...

Bungling cops lose £1m of new radios By DAVID WOODING Whitehall Editor Published: Today BUNGLING cops have lost 2,700 new radios worth almost £1million. Scores of the state-of-the-art digital handsets go missing from forces every month.

https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Secret_gag_orders_undermine_core_Western_values "British courts continue to disgrace Enlightenment values." WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE / EDITORIAL December 24, 2008 December the 15th saw a secret UK court hearing, with secret participants, produce a secret order to secretly gag the population, the terms of which are secret and the revelation of which is...

Scientific illiteracy all the rage among the glitterati By Steve Connor, Science editor Saturday, 27 December 2008 Kate Moss, who believes diet can detox your body When it comes to science, Barack Obama is no better than many of us. Today he joins the list of shame of those in public life who made scientifically unsupportable statements in 2008.

Comments on a story of polygamy that ended in a young woman's death http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article5400567.ece This is a pure case of fraud, and should be treated both as a criminal and civil matter. The push for multi-cultralism should not be given precedence over the laws of the land. The courts should convict any party engaged in this fraud...

http://ritualabuse.us Ending Impunity For Rape By Marianne Mollmann 12/27/08 Washington Post Page A15 I have a project for Joseph Biden and Hillary Clinton to work on together: ending impunity for rape. Rape-conviction rates are appallingly low across the globe. I don't mean only in countries that many would think of as lacking good justice systems: Conviction rates hover just above 10 percent...

The Computeractive magazine gives some very useful legal advice. However in issue 282 they said: ‘Under contract law there is no contract between two parties unless money has changed hands’. I emailed them basically saying that this in effect was rubbish (I was a bit more polite that that). I gave the following two simple examples:

Parents are encouraged to 'shield' children on database Parents will be encouraged to have their children's personal details hidden on the Government's child protection database in a move by a rebel council that could sabotage the £224 million project. By Martin Beckford, Social Affairs Correspondent Last Updated: 1:47AM GMT 27 Dec 2008 The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is launching...