A nasty taste
An opinion piece in today’s Telegraph alerts the readers: A dangerous and disagreeable piece of legislation comes before the House of Lords today. In order to implement the EU’s directive on...
View ArticleLords on vitamins
The Telegraph has an update about the vote in the House of Lords on the European Union curbs on the sale of vitamins and mineral food supplements. Peers voted by a majority of 53 last night to call...
View ArticleISP fights back
STL today.com reports that Charter Communications Inc., third largest cable provider in the United States, filed a suit on Friday seeking to block the recording industry from obtaining the identities...
View ArticleAn unsolicited response – Barrister blows off Solicitor after ‘compliment’
A previously private exchange of messages on LinkedIn between a barrister*, Charlotte Proudman, and a solicitor*, Alexander Carter-Silk, disparate in age, has erupted into a ‘scandal’ after the...
View ArticleChoose your sex, choose your race, choose your weapons
I cannot now remember any more than the general sense of a comment that was deleted by the moderators to this Guardian article: Rihanna calls Rachel Dolezal ‘a bit of a hero’ (Dolezal, you may recall,...
View ArticleA welcome slap in the face from the Magistracy for the Education nomenklatura
A gentleman living on the Isle of Wight took his school-age daughter on holiday to Florida in term time. The child’s absence from school was noted… The Local Education Authority issued him with a...
View ArticleA slap in the face becomes a kick in the balls for the Education nomenklatura
A fresh instalment in the case of the man, the heroic Jon Platt, prosecuted for taking his chid out of school in term time for a holiday, but was acquitted by Magistrates. Scandalously, bureaucrats on...
View Article“A student at the preschool I work at is only being taught a fictional language”
That was the title of a request for legal advice submitted to Reddit by someone with the user name “HelpfulButterscotch2”. Here is the whole post: [CA] A student at the preschool I work at is only...
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