Get them by the Short and Curlies
We’ve all had great entertainment from The Daily Telegraph’s dripping tap exposé on MPs’ expenses. With oohs and ahhs we picked over the bones of discombobulated baby-kissers. Our outrage knew no bounds. But all of it was Continue reading →
Censorship – Love it or Hate it?
The CPS has dropped a case brought under the Obscene Publications Act against Darryn Walker, a civil servant who wrote a pornographic fantasy about pop group Girls Aloud and posted it online. This follows the case of NightJack aka Continue reading →
Watch the Pennies and the Pounds will take care of themselves
The London Mint Office is offering £50 apiece for thousands of new, undated British 20p coins produced by the Royal Mint. An estimated 50,000 – 200,000 have been produced and put into circulation. But Continue reading →
‘Swampy’ Branson in a pickle.
This morning, Richard Branson was nabbed for the Today programme on Radio 4. He was spotted in a corridor as he walked through Broadcasting House trying to publicise the 25th anniversary of Virgin Atlantic.
They wanted to know if the formula one
Continue reading →Nabbing the Snappers…….
The UK police terrorism arrest statistics (excluding Northern Ireland) from 11 September 2001 – 31 March 2007 show 1228 arrests were made of whom 699 were released without charge. The statistics do not however detail how many people were threatened
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