“The duty not to countenance the use of torture by admission of evidence in judicial proceedings must be regarded as paramount and to allow its admission would shock the conscience, abuse or degrade the proceedings and involve the state in moral defilement.” Lord Carswell And so, the Law […]

…from the media’s instant beatification of an Eton-educated descendent of a royal bastard for a couple of minutes, there is something rather more important going on in the High Court at the moment. Right now there’s a group of ‘Tarzan’s and Man Friday’s’ – that’s precisely how a […]

Tim’s post on ‘THE BOOK‘ at Bloggerheads has reminded me that I owe the other Tim (Worstall) the courtesy of a review. Well, what can one say about ‘2005:Blogged‘ that hasn’t already been said? In terms of the ‘great typeface controversy’, I can’t say that I find the […]

Ok, ok. I know I’m rather a late arrival at the party and taking pot shots at yet another bout of Polly Pot histrionics is hardly the most tasking of activities but I really couldn’t pass up the chance of commenting on her views on the new movie […]

On February 29th 2002, the famed English explorer and gentleman adventurer, Sir Norville Twiston-Shout VC. DFC. MFI and Bar, was reported missing while on a fly-fishing expedition to the notorious upper reaches of the River Lumbum. Three years later, to the day, Inspector Philippe Singe de Nez of […]

Scribbles has written an interesting and very personal reflection on the seemingly interminable debate around the Muslim practice of Hijab – and specifically the burka which represents the most ‘extreme’ (to Western eyes) form of this practice; one which charts, I suppose, the evolution of her own views […]

Chris (Stumbling and Mumbling) get in a well-aimed shot at Oliver Kamm for his trenchant criticism of the Greenpeace activists who disrupted yesterday’s CBI conference, which appears in today’s Times. Kamm’s expansion of a bit of typical Greenpeace rhetoric – a claim that the intent behind the protest […]

I pointed out only the other day that one of the problems with inveterate modernisers is that they frequently lack any real sense of history. Today I come across an interesting illustration of this particular point in the form of this post from Lee Gregory on the subject […]

Yep, as you might guess from the title there’s more of Polly Pot’s patented pearls of wisdom to be shot at. In today’s edition of ‘Polly’s Follies’ we find her turning her attention to the thorny question of removing juries from complex fraud trials – she’s in favour, […]

Yep, I was right. The ongoing shambles that is the CSA is rapidly turning into amother issue in which it is impossible to conduct a reasoned and mature debate. Today’s dose of crass gender politics comes courtesy of Zoe William’s in the Guardian who’s pissed off that men […]