Category Archives: Police

If you don’t know your rights, you have none

By scrubber | Published: April 2, 2011
Hat-tip, Old Holborn: What should have happened (nicked from a comment by a policeman on another blog): Hello, I’ve stopped you because you went through a red light which is an offence. Then he should have cautioned him. The way I propose to deal with this is prosecuting you by way of a fixed penalty notice (explain process) Request the [...]
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Are the Essex police especially thick?

By scrubber | Published: January 13, 2011
I thank a reader and the London Evening Standard’s web site for this gem: “A police force had to spend thousands of pounds fixing vehicles after officers put petrol in diesel cars — despite “talking” fuel caps warning them not to. Officers from Essex Police used the wrong fuel 332 times in the past seven years at [...]
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BNP candidate forcibly removed by Police at O&S election hustings.

By scrubber | Published: January 11, 2011
As a Libertarian, I hold no torch for the BNP, a far-left, socialist nationalist party, but they are, as far as I can tell, a legally-constitued political party, and they have fielded candidates in elections in the UK for many years. As such, they have a perfect, and legally-endorsed, right to play a full and [...]
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None so blind as those who will not see…

By scrubber | Published: November 18, 2010
How many people who watch the following video will draw the same conclusion as Appeal Judge Mr Justice Bean? Watch the video, draw your own conclusions, then read on… Note that although there is some sound, it’s only at the start, and the timings at the bottom of the screen appear to be out 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launched the Coalition Government’s “Your Freedom” initiative, where they are asking us to tell them what laws we want repealed, where the Government is snooping too much, strangling us in red tape, and so on.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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Google Hollie Greig

By DiamondGeezer | Published: March 26, 2010
I hadn’t heard anything about this, in part for reasons that will become clear as you read on, so I thank Elizabeth Robillard, a Facebook fan of ours, for bringing it to my attention. Old Holborn (of Nick Hogan fame) has covered this extensively and excellently, so I am also hanging on to his coat-tails to [...]
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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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Greater Manchester Police record snowball fights as ’serious violent crime’

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 22, 2010
Gratefully received from a friend of mine, this week’s first dose of insanity involves the Greater Manchester Police recording snowball fights as serious violent crime. As the article makes clear, ’serious violent crime’ is supposed to be incidents such as murder, rape and inflicting injury with a weapon. Clearly it would have to [...]
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Is Brown more presidential than Blair was?

By scrubber | Published: February 17, 2010
As previously reported, the Prime Mentalist came to Suffolk yesterday to lay down a curse or two. Apparently he swept into town with an entourage including motorcycle out-riders and unmarked black cars. The local rag, the Evening Star, covered this in some detail, highlighting some creative interpretation of speed limits by Brown’s drivers, and a [...]
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