This is the side of America that tends to leave the British bewildered. The facts are fairly simple. On 26 Feb 2012, an African American teenager, Trayvon Martin (17) was walking to back to his house in a gated community in Sanford, Florida. The house belonged to his father’s girlfriend. He had been to a [...]
The UK law on stalking is currently in the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (Harassment Act). There are two offences: s2 and s4. The s2 offence is: 1 (1) A person must not pursue a course of conduct – (a) which amounts to harassment of another, and (b) which he knows or ought to know [...]
I have not written about this since September, when the public was deeply outraged about the Milly Dowler case. It appeared that the dastardly Murdoch hacks were deleting messages from the abducted (and, as it later turned out, dead) Milly’s voicemail to make room for more, so that further riveting coverage could sell hundreds of [...]
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 [...]
