Ok. Well its seems the challenge for this evening – courtesy of Rob Newman in comments – is to take a more positive view of the issue of Child Support and suggest workable alternatives to the current system; or at least some sort of proactive approach to solving […]

THe BBC headline reads ‘Private firms to chase CSA debts‘ – it might as well read ‘Government try to polish turd’. The report seems straight forward enough; the latest master plan to try and turn around the Child Support Agency looks set to be to try using private […]

Bookdrunk does a first rate job of pulling to pieces the gross abuse of statistics behind the Daily Mail’s latest hyperventilating headline which claims that: Doctors ‘help’ 2 in 3 to die Which is, of course, a complete load of bollocks. Euthanasia is a difficult and emotive subject […]

Well, we seem to be heading for a showdown between the Lord and the Commons on the matter of the Terrorism Bill and the proposed new offence of ‘glorifying’ terrorism, which was removed from the Bill by a Lords amendment only yesterday. If, by any chance, you’ve been […]

On Monday, Charles Clarke gave yet another one of his absurd assurances to Parliament – as chronicled by Spy Blog, of which the most interesting comment was this: Perhaps I can go even further. All of the many databases that are held about all of us in this […]

{via spiritof76} A little story I was told in class today. One of my classmates apparently had a phone call last night from a relative of hers. Oh good, we have the classic set up for an urban myth straight away – a classmate apparently had a phone […]

Lords defeat for anti-terror plan The Terror Bill was put together after the July bombings Controversial plans for new anti-terrorism laws have suffered a defeat in the House of Lords. Peers voted by 270 to 144 to ditch plans in the Terrorism Bill for a new offence of […]

ACTION: Introduce a ‘community call for action’ In the police reform White Paper, Building Communities, Beating Crime, we committed to introducing a power that will give local communities a formal way to request and ensure that action is taken by the police, local authorities and others in response […]

I got up this morning in what was, for me, a remarkably good mood. Why? I couldn’t have told you to begin with. I just had the indefinable sense of anticipation about the day ahead, as if subconsciously I knew there was something about today that was worth […]

What are we to do with the House of Lords? That’s a question that will come up sooner or later as another run at a package of reforms is in preparation at the moment and due to be put to Parliament at some time in the near future. […]