Exactly two years ago it was much colder than today. There was considerable travel disruption in the North. Motor-mouth and trainee accountant Paul Chambers (twitter @pauljchambers) wanted to fly to Belfast to be with his new girl friend (twitter @crazycolours), but found himself frustrated by cancellations at his local airport and tweeted: Crap! Robin Hood [...]
How exactly did Emma West break the law? She was the ranter on the Croydon tram who entertained, or perhaps caused irreversible harm to, her fellow passengers by calling them: black people and a load of fucking Polish … you ain’t English, you ain’t English either, you ain’t English, none of you is fucking English [...]
I am often struck how the cost of bad behaviour can be quite disproportionate to the benefit to the perpetrator. The classic example is corruption. An individual wants a “commission” of X in return for “facilitating” a contract worth 10X or 100X. It would often have been far cheaper for the state just to pay [...]
Unsurprisingly, Julian Assange lost his case against extradition in the High Court today. The judgment is not yet on the High Court site, but a copy is available on scribd.com (case CO/1925/2011). His problem is that the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) offers almost no scope for challenge. That is the whole idea. All the countries [...]
[Published 19 Oct 2011 and open for comments until 6 Jan 12, about 80pp] This is the fall-out from the Binyam Mohamed court cases, on which I wrote several articles (eg here, here and here). The consultation is on the cabinet office website here, rather than on the Dept of Justice website as you might [...]
