...but thought others might want to know about it.

Reclaim the Night North March, protesting against violence against women: organised by the NUS women's campaign. Meeting 6pm on Sat 1st March at Sackville Street, more details in the link ( Read more... )

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Steve Bell rocks, as ever

OK, now this is really fucked up, and frankly, *deeply* scary.

A German sociologist has been arrested under anti-terror laws on the grounds that his academic work uses lots of the same words as those used by a militant group in Berlin. And he might have met some of them, once, maybe ( Read more... )

Zoe Williams hits the nail on the head, again:

But I do wish Smith and co would say what they really mean, ie: "It was different for us, we did it at Oxford. Nobody goes psychotic on the Bridge of Sighs. When we say it's illegal, we're talking about poor people who can't control themselves." That's what you mean! Just say it!

The NHS is planning a database for holding information about the sexual behaviour of gay men in London. Tender documents for the project "included plans to register everyone living with HIV and 'interrogate the database' to follow up clients who did not come forward for an assessment of needs ( Read more... )

It turns out that the guy who's going to run the shiny new supercasino in Manchester is one Sol Kerzner, the man who made his fortune running Sun City during apartheid era S. Africa. It also transpires that he would have been the other partner in the proposed Millenium Dome casino bid, the better known partner being Philip Anschutz, the guy who ( Read more... )

Via M and This Modern World


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NHS patient records are going into a national database, which doesn't look best secure, can be accessed by 250,000 NHS staff, and probably security services, disregarding consent, and with the possibility of adding in DNA samples eventually. Details here, and instructions on how to block your data going on it here.

Mr Prescott stunned many delegates and observers when he said suddenly last night at the Amicus reception: "There is one man I will be rooting for and that is Gordon Brown." He then compared himself to a sumo wrestler when talking about his role as a conciliator between Mr Brown and Tony Blair.

That was not an image I needed first thing in the