Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

by Anna Raccoon on March 13, 2010

Law and Order Edition.

CharonQC on overcrowding in Britain’s Jails….

Jack of Kent on prosecutions in the ‘electronic medium’.

Jailhouse Lawyer on who is really running Britain’s prisons.

Internet News on how the piracy laws in France have failed miserably.

and finally Raedwald, because this post made me laugh so much……

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A Pretty Lehman Excuse

March 13, 2010

Act I, Scene I: A man sits hunched at a shabby desk in a leaky portakabin at the back of a railway station car park.  At the sound of someone trying to shoulder their way through a warped portakabin door, he hunches himself lower over his desk and buries his face [...]

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Praise the Lord!

March 13, 2010

Here we go again:
Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, unexpectedly announced that a £270 million loan guarantee would be given to General Motors Europe, the parent company.
Unexpectedly? Very unexpectedly! Because not all that long ago:
Unions had criticised Lord Mandelson, saying he had been on the periphery of discussions concerning the future of Vauxhall, and the UK [...]

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Nick Hogan – Live Coverage Courtesy of Guido.

March 12, 2010

Wikio

Wikio

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Come the Revolution!

March 12, 2010

The Blogosphere is fundamentally different from the Main Stream Media.
It is the aggregate mass of thousands of committed individuals, sitting in front of their computers, who wish to make their voices heard in the political dialogue which traditionally, only hears their voice during an election.
This is not a new phenomenon. It used to be called [...]

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Healthcare revisited

March 12, 2010

One of the things that came out of the US healthcare débâcle was the curious false dichotomy that the only two possible approaches to healthcare were the NHS or the current American system. Now, the American healthcare system has many things going for it:
America has the highest quality treatment of any country in the world, [...]

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Painting on a Smile.

March 11, 2010

This mendacious government is so remarkably adept at ‘not spending money’ on their election campaign.
They fly the Prime Minister out to Afghanistan on a ‘morale boosting trip’, (any soldiers whose morale was boosted by this trip, feel free to e-mail me, I’d be delighted to know you exist)
They spend £540 million a year on marketing [...]

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