Archive for the 'Justice' Category

 

Seconds out, round two

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Or possibly three. Or four. Anyway, some excellent write-ups of the encounter between Simon Singh (huzzah!) and the BCA (boo!) today at the Royal Courts of Justice are available from Jack of Kent, Crispian Jago and Padraig Reidy at Index on Censorship, and I very definitely commend them to the house.
I want to quote something [...]

 

Dave at the Pod Delusion

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

The main link to which I refer is censortube.eu; Thunderf00t is on YouTube at youtube.com/thunderf00t; the Electronic Frontier Foundation is at eff.org; the Google spring clean is at productideas.appspot.com.
xD.

 

An instructive example of excellent blogging

Friday, November 20th, 2009

From Jack of Kent – Paul Clarke: an anatomy of injustice.
Jack of Kent does something very interesting in this lucid explanation of the situation. He shows that it is possible to agree with the initial reaction of the masses, even so the masses are so uninformed that their opinions are of little to no value. [...]

 

In response to James ‘Nourishing Obscurity’ Higham

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

My friend James Higham – learned counsel for the other side – has replied at length to the video I posted of Philip Spooner saying, in answer to whether he was supportive of gay rights, ‘what do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach?‘, saying “Marriage is the union of two people for the [...]

 
 

Of marriage, race and contract

Friday, October 16th, 2009

While Jan Moir has been issuing her homophobic drivel and being roundly castigated by the internet, another story in the news of quite astounding bigotry caught my eye.
In Tangipahoa Country, Louisiana, a justice of the peace, Keith Bardwell, refuses to give marriage licenses for mixed-race couples. Yes, you read that correctly.
The story first surfaced in [...]

 

#carter-ruck #fail

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Carter-Ruck, acting on behalf of Trafigura, sought to restrict a liberty hard-won by John Wilkes – reporting what happens in Parliament. The details are here, but revolve around an injunction stopping publication of a written question in parliament in the Guardian.
From the Order Book, q 61.
“To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment [...]

 

A posthumous apology for Alan Turing

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Alan Turing, OBE, did a great deal to hasten the end of World War Two through his work at Bletchley Park and the design of the bombe – the machine used to break three- and four- rotor Enigma cyphers. He’s also known for the Turing Test of artificial intelligence – can a machine convince a [...]

 

Gordon at TED

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Yes, I’m biased towards Labour, but the boy done good.

H/T The Wardman Wire.
xD.

 

Suicide and the public interest

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

In a post on her website1, Nadine Dorries MP makes a series of contentions concerning the law on assisting suicide that I believe to be mistaken.
The first contention is that the 1961 Suicide Act clearly and unambiguously “states that those who aid, abet, counsel or procure someone else’s suicide, can be prosecuted and punished with [...]