Open letter from the Camp for Climate Action to Ian Thomas, the Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Service. Worth reading in it’s entirety.
Mark Thompson, writing on his weblog Newsless — Time to stop breaking the news, and start fixing it: I’ve come to the conclusion that there are four key parts to news stories, and we typically only get one of them, even though journalists possess all four, and the other three are arguably more important.
Could be interesting. Jon Henley for The Guardian: The Metropolitan police have announced a new strategy for next week’s Climate Camp – putting women officers in charge of the operation. Will this avoid the violence seen at the G20 protests? Perhaps the most noted American researcher into gender differences in policing, Joseph Balkin, observed that “policemen tend to see…
Douglas Hogg — the British Tory MP who included the cost of cleaning his moat on his expenses — reckons: A parliamentary salary does not support the lifestyle to which most professional and business classes aspire. Which got me wondering as to which character Hogg most resembles in Animal Farm. My money’s on Pinkeye. He carries on to suggest:…
The Guardian: ‘Memoirs to reveal Dick Cheney thought Bush had gone soft on war on terror.’ Who knows what dark place we’d all be in if this man had become U.S. President.
Then try following the debate propaganda war on health care reform in the U.S. Daring Fireball has a couple of pearlers: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Part One You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Part Two Update: Stephen Hawking: I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS,” he told us. “I have…
This week marks the 64th anniversary of one of the largest and most heinous acts of terrorism ever perpetrated: the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States of America, the only country to have ever used nuclear bombs to massacre civilians. The largest attack, also perpetrated by the U.S., was the firebombing of…
The Economist has an interesting story this week illustrating how sex offender laws in the U.S. have run amok and are not only making matters worse but are destroying the lives of many innocent people in the process. Plonkers with ballots + self-serving polticians = perversion of justice.
Andrew Clark writing for The Guardian: “Rupert Murdoch said quality journalism is not cheap and so he intends to charge for all his websites,” including the Times, The Sun and the News of the World. Two comments. The Sun and News of the World are not quality journalism. They’re tabloids. A prediction: Murdoch’s plan to charge…
Family of Ian Tomlinson — who died after being hit by policeman at G20 protests — speak out.