Someone on the radio, discussing Twitter abuse cases like this one, seemed to think that the thing that made a message illegal was being “menacing”. But the law is broader than that; from the Malicious Communications Act 1988:

(1) Any person who sends to another person-

(a) a letter, electronic communication or article of any description which ( Read more... )

According to Theo Paphitis (who I’d never heard of before today):

“So, technically, those of us who have a job and are still in work, and not worried about losing our job, have actually been better off, so he [Lord Young] was technically correct.”

Christopher Hope adds:

“Many grassroots Tories will say Lord Young of Graffham, David Cameron’s ( Read more... )

“I had the News of the World editor standing in my living room in his boxer shorts. It was just a bizarre situation.”

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From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/7866103.stm:

he raised two extremely rare bronze canons, measuring 12ft (3.6m) and weighing four tonnes, which could only have belonged to the British man-of-war.

I'd not realized we'd deployed robot priests against the French prior to the Napoleonic wars.

[the Admiral's] ancestor Sir Robert ( Read more... )

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