The thin blue line
Once again Britain’s finest have come under attack after it was revealed that claims that 70 police officers were injured in clashes with climate change protesters at Kingsnorth power station were not quite accurate
Only four of the 12 reportable injuries involved any contact with protesters at all and all were at the lowest level of [...]
Human Rights and responsibilities
Today sees the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and it’s good to see that Justice Secretary Jack Straw is commemorating the event by, er, planning to water down our own human rights laws. In an interview with the Daily Mail he has vented his frustration with the Human Rights Act
The Justice [...]
A tribute to Oliver Postgate
Oliver Postgate, creator of some of our best loved children’s TV shows, has died aged 83.
For those of us who were growing up in the sixties and seventies his programmes (created with collaborator Peter Firmin) are an integral part of or childhood memories and I have fond recollections of watching the Pogles, Noggin the Nog, [...]
Pot, kettle (or possibly…fish, barrel)
One aspect of the Damian green saga which seems to have upset some people is the suggestion that he was “grooming” his mole, the objection being that this phrase is often associated with predatory paedophiles and was therefore inappropriate in this case.
One person who has particularly taken offence is Richard Littlejohn
In her [Jacqui Smith's] [...]