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Maybe I should make a tag for these.
"Police are to be stripped of the power to stop and search anyone for no reason, the Home Secretary has announced.
Theresa May told the Commons she will limit Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 so members of public can only be stopped if officers "reasonably suspect" they are terrorists." -- Source
Wow, we might actually be able to take photos of impressive buildings in the UK again sometime soon; this power was notoriously used to block tourists and professional photographers from taking pictures of our bigger and more impressive landmarks. Or to block photographers from taking pictures of the police misusing a law that their own Chief Of Police had told them repeatedly not to apply.
Regardless of your political affiliation, it is at least a refreshing change that when the European Convention on Human Rights tells us not to do something, the current government goes 'oh well fine alright then' as opposed to Labour, which pretended not to hear them. (Or in at least two cases, went 'they're wrong and we'll keep doing it anyway. Fines? pfff, taxpayer can handle those.')
Reviews coming up for the new anime season, Alpha Protocol, Trinity Universe, and Demon's Souls. The release schedules are pretty much devoid of any games I could possibly want, so instead have a link to a really annoyingly addictive puzzle / RPG roguelike.
Edit: Can it be?
"Teachers are to be given tougher powers to deal with disruptive pupils, the government has said in a bid to improve school discipline. They will be allowed to use physical force to remove youngsters from classrooms or restrain troublemakers.
Staff will be able to check pupils for mobile phones, fireworks and cigarettes as well as weapons and drugs. And teachers will be granted anonymity if complaints are made about them to prevent careers being ruined by ‘malicious’ claims." -- Source
I'm actively boggled. After years of hearing about teacher's rights getting stripped away to the point where they lose their job and get sued for so much as touching a kid* even if he's disrupting the entire classroom, or of watching 'rate my teacher' sites become stinking cesspools*, or watching parents assault teachers because their kid decided being told to sit down constituted bullying, this seems like a remarkable outbreak of common sense.
* - Irritatingly, I've lost my sources on these in the midsts of time - taken from papers and from reading quite a few UK public sector blogs. Those I used to use are down, but google Frank Chalk for one of the traditional teacher-in-the-UK blogs, and see here for the benchmark blog Teaching Battleground - very dry and very technical, but also very good reading.
"Police are to be stripped of the power to stop and search anyone for no reason, the Home Secretary has announced.
Theresa May told the Commons she will limit Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 so members of public can only be stopped if officers "reasonably suspect" they are terrorists." -- Source
Wow, we might actually be able to take photos of impressive buildings in the UK again sometime soon; this power was notoriously used to block tourists and professional photographers from taking pictures of our bigger and more impressive landmarks. Or to block photographers from taking pictures of the police misusing a law that their own Chief Of Police had told them repeatedly not to apply.
Regardless of your political affiliation, it is at least a refreshing change that when the European Convention on Human Rights tells us not to do something, the current government goes 'oh well fine alright then' as opposed to Labour, which pretended not to hear them. (Or in at least two cases, went 'they're wrong and we'll keep doing it anyway. Fines? pfff, taxpayer can handle those.')
Reviews coming up for the new anime season, Alpha Protocol, Trinity Universe, and Demon's Souls. The release schedules are pretty much devoid of any games I could possibly want, so instead have a link to a really annoyingly addictive puzzle / RPG roguelike.
Edit: Can it be?
"Teachers are to be given tougher powers to deal with disruptive pupils, the government has said in a bid to improve school discipline. They will be allowed to use physical force to remove youngsters from classrooms or restrain troublemakers.
Staff will be able to check pupils for mobile phones, fireworks and cigarettes as well as weapons and drugs. And teachers will be granted anonymity if complaints are made about them to prevent careers being ruined by ‘malicious’ claims." -- Source
I'm actively boggled. After years of hearing about teacher's rights getting stripped away to the point where they lose their job and get sued for so much as touching a kid* even if he's disrupting the entire classroom, or of watching 'rate my teacher' sites become stinking cesspools*, or watching parents assault teachers because their kid decided being told to sit down constituted bullying, this seems like a remarkable outbreak of common sense.
* - Irritatingly, I've lost my sources on these in the midsts of time - taken from papers and from reading quite a few UK public sector blogs. Those I used to use are down, but google Frank Chalk for one of the traditional teacher-in-the-UK blogs, and see here for the benchmark blog Teaching Battleground - very dry and very technical, but also very good reading.