If you can’t guarantee at least denting the government’s majority a bit, why waste your time trying to annul legislation that is about to be enacted? Mark Oaten has made the solemn prediction that the Licensing Act will lead to a “Christmas crisis” (it must be so, ‘cos it alliterates), with Theresa May saying much… Continue reading 24 November 2005: the day the world officially ends
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Is 90 days long enough?
Matt refers to a letter in the Evening Standard tonight: Roy Jhuboo, of WC1, tells in a letter how the Police arrested him for photographing around Limehouse under the Terrorism Act. When he asked why, he was told that he “could be a terrorist on a reconnaissance mission planing to launch a rocket at Canary… Continue reading Is 90 days long enough?
Mockery
This is the sort of thing that annoys me about BBC journalism: According to the Lib Dems, 42% of schoolchildren who took part in a mock general election organised by the Hansard Society in 2,000 schools this year voted for the party. Actually, it isn’t according to the Lib Dems, it’s according to the Hansard… Continue reading Mockery