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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 [...]
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.
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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. [...]
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 [...]
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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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Yes, I’m biased towards Labour, but the boy done good.
H/T The Wardman Wire.
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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 [...]
