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From the middle of this month you can go to jail for ten years for Photographing a Policeman , I will repeat that for you. Ten years in jail for taking a photgraph of a copper. So if a photojournalist takes a photograph of a demonstrator being beaten with a baton, or running them down with…

Labour’s core vote. There’s something wrong with me (yes, yes, I know, but apart from that). Apparently, it is human nature to fit in with the crowd. I’ve never felt the need. Rather than agree with a concensus, I’d stick by my beliefs unless proven wrong. Browbeating and saying ‘well everyone else agrees’ has no…

Jo Brand, pictured moments before the Terrible Thing happened. She still has the dress.   (picture extraordinarily renditioned from here) A large woman in a sack, of bloated body and ill-fitting face, has apparently said something bad about the BNP. I don’t care about that at all, although if it’s illegal to say bad things about some…

This morning driving through the snow watching BMW ‘s shunting into each other, and their owners leaping out to hysterically inspect the damage to their pride and joy, I was listening to Frederico Lorca‘s niece talking about the death of her poet uncle at the hands of the Falangists in the Spanish Civil War. The Lorca…

I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.   But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and…

Guido has some interesting news from the Glenrothes by election. It appears the Labour victory thing was a farce and now the “evidence” has gone missing. Something to do with postal votes being filled out by the party faithful in their thousands suddenly appearing and giving him an unexpected victory. The registers of the ballots, now…

I had not come across this before, even though it was on Samizdata this time last year. I came across it on the Oxford Libertarian blog. I recently had the unpleasant experience of being ‘interviewed’ by a civil servant ‘with attitude’ ( unlike the relatively passive Canadian civil servant) it was not an interview its was an interrogation….

Jonathon Porritt, yesterday   From The Sunday Times February 1, 2009 COUPLES who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the government’s green adviser has warned. Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the…

I have just heard this ‘man’ whining on R4 that it is the fault of a British Contractor failing to complete the work at Lindsay, not the EU or the Italian contractor. This ‘Man’ amply demostrates the utter contempt that the ‘Party of the People holds for the working classes, he for obvious reasons does…

Courtesy of Devils Kitchen