Election - 7.25am update
So it will be a hung parliament, we know that much. The biggest story (apart from the problems with the vote itself) is the collapse in LibDem support, their overall share of the vote is about the same as last time and they are currently 5 seats down - a desperately disappointing night for them. [...]
Election - 2.45am update
Election organisers - shit. People unable to vote, polling stations running out of ballot papers, postal votes going missing.
LibDems - shit. What the hell happened to Cleggmania?
BBC coverage - shit. Andrew Neill on a boat talking to celebrities while actual results are being ignored.
Labour in the dock (again)
Even in its (probable) dying days of power Labour is still being taken to task by the courts for railroading civil liberties under the pretence of protecting national security.
As the Guardian reports
The court of appeal has dismissed an attempt by MI5 and MI6 to suppress evidence of their alleged complicity in the torture and secret [...]
Taking Brown to task on child detention
An excellent piece at OurKingdom by Clare Sambrook, who takes apart Gordon Brown’s defence of the detention of the children of asylum seekers.
We believe that history will judge the administrative detention of children to be a moral stain on the reputation of this country, akin to slavery and child labour. One day we will [...]