Category Archives: Legal lunacy

How the left loves to censor free speech.

By scrubber | Published: February 8, 2011
Daniel Hannan has written about this several times, and he’s right, the left does love to censor free speech. He writes here and here about the hypocrisy of the left, and the way it uses insults and spittle-flecked invective to sully its opponents. However, today I want to draw readers’ attention to an article in today’s [...]
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Australian lawyer tests which burns better – the Koran or the Bible

By DiamondGeezer | Published: September 13, 2010
Am I the only one who finds this quite amusing? An Atheist Australian lawyer, Alex Stewart, posted a video of himself smoking with pages of both the Koran and the Bible in an effort to discover which burns better. Wikio Wikio
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Britain exploits the mentally challenged…

By scrubber | Published: July 22, 2010
So says the excellent Matthew Wright, presenter of Channel 5’s Wright Stuff of Britain’s Got Talent. I kind of agree with him too, wondering how on earth they manage to find so many deluded people to expose themselves in front of millions. Most of them are utterly talentless, and clearly suffering from various types of [...]
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Coalition Government launches “Your Freedom” initiative.

By scrubber | Published: July 1, 2010
Today, as has been widely reported in the MSM, Nick Clegg launched the Coalition Government’s “Your Freedom” initiative, where they are asking us to tell them what laws we want repealed, where the Government is snooping too much, strangling us in red tape, and so on. All to the good on the face of it. [...]
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Woman not allowed to take dog on bus on religious grounds

By DiamondGeezer | Published: June 25, 2010
Instalment number two of ‘The World’s Gone Mad’ is this example, again from the Telegraph. Judith Woods has twice in the last week been refused access to a bus because she wanted to take a dog with her. As far as my experience goes, you’re always allowed to take dogs on buses, unless they’re particularly [...]
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British Airways ban adult male from sitting next to unaccompanied minor

By DiamondGeezer | Published: June 25, 2010
Today’s (first) example of the world having gone totally insane is brought to us by the Telegraph. Hedge fund manager Mirko Fischer was on a plane from London to Luxembourg, when he swapped seats with his pregnant wife so that she could be by the window. BA staff then stepped in and told [...]
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Suffering from election fatigue?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 28, 2010
I think I probably am, but not in the ways you might immediately think. In this era of media- and spin-led politics, we are seemingly interminably subjected to a constant barrage of soundbites, ‘news’, glad-handing, palm-pressing, baby-kissing and any other inconsequential drivel that our political classes and their sycophants in the media care to inflict upon [...]
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Judge slams government for short sentences on teenage thugs – can broken Britain ever be fixed?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: March 12, 2010
As was reported in the Daily Mail today, Judge Kerry Macgill has hit out at government statutory guidelines for not allowing long-term custodial sentences to be imposed. Four teenagers, including two girls, forced a 17-year-old with learning disabilities from the children’s home in which he lived and repeatedly kicked and punched him, poured boiling water over [...]
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Nick Hogan Freed by the Blogosphere

By scrubber | Published: March 11, 2010
Firstly, apologies for the paucity of blogs recently, we have all been unusually busy this week, and not a hope of reading blogs, let alone writing. In catch-up mode, came across this excellent news on Guido’s blog. Nick Hogan, the “controller of a space” where smoking took place has been released from a term of 6 [...]
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EU determines UK immigration law in landmark Somali case

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 24, 2010
EU judges yesterday passed a (little-reported) landmark ruling that could have cataclysmic consequences for the UK’s immigration policy and benefits system. Nimco Hassan Ibrahim, a 34 year old Somali woman, has been granted a right to a home in Britain by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. To make it clear, this woman has no connection [...]
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