Anything that starts "Welcome to the Citzens for Undead Rights and Equality" has my attention, if not my vote.

Are you tired of politicians treating the citizens of the UK like zombies? Well, even if we all were, we should still have the right to vote.

Vote CURE at the next General Election!(Well, if you're in ( Read more... )

Hello, people, specifically believers in the right-wing Murdock-owned media. (yes, I know that's few/no friended readers of this journal.)

I am an immigrant. ( And today I have seen some bigotry. )

( A not-very-interesting-to-other-people set of interconnected facts. )

Yes, okay, expenses claims, deeply interesting, but this is more interesting/scary/disturbing news:

The US climate bill has had a $45m public relations hit and... who knows if it'll pass ( Read more... )

After having watched the last fourty minutes of Dispatches tonight, on the involvement of Christian Fundamentalists in UK Politics (specifically the vote on embryonic research) I'd just like to say that I think that Andrea Williams is both an incredibly dangerous woman and worse, an embarassment to my potential profession. As a barrister the fact ( Read more... )

So perhaps the morning after a crazy weekend up at Bristol Uni doing the IV and generally misbehaving isn't the best time to start with the whole analysis of a moot problem, but that's what I'm going to do ( Read more... )

Imagine someone asking the simple question "how do I prosecute an MP for lying?"It's called "The Ministry of Truth" (heh, yes, I know) and frankly I'm fascinated by what they're doing. Considering the Freedom of Information Act is effectively every Civil Servants bane and yet it managed to get pushed through Parliament? Amazing ( Read more... )

Feeling much better about things then I was on Saturday, by the way. Doom and gloom has passed with a couple of hours hard work and a little less drama about everything. It is amazing how much knowing the amount of work you have to get done in a day can actually focus the mind onto, well, better topics ( Read more... )

Cripes! He's just suggested that our continued military presence in Iraq is illegal according to international treaty law!

(or at least, that's where my head is at, what with studying the stuff this last week. the article doesn't actually say that, although the political editors reaction isn't overstated.)

Usually all for the radical, and definately agree with the RAC when they urge motorists "not to drink any alcohol before getting behind the wheel." And hey, on that note, I completely agree with dropping the legal limit to 50mg. (I am in the "pint of coke and change for the pool table" category of designated drivers.) And I can understand why big ( Read more... )