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The UK’s Daily Mail reports on one of the most bizarre examples of weapons control run amok. Charlotte Howard went to go buy pencils like any other 11-year-old schoolgirl who had exhausted her existing supply of writing utensils (or art utensils, as it appears from one of the pictures these may be colored art pencils). [...] I rarely blog from a press release like this one but the subject matter is too important to quietly let go and it’s no stranger to regular readers of my blog. A Bindmans press release details the plight of Ms. Jess Hurd, a photojournalist in the UK; it does not say what city she calls [...] Found this article from one of the people I follow on Twitter. The Telegraph ran a story about an office worker fired for using all caps in e-mail. Vicki Walker, a New Zealand native, was let go from a job at a health care company after complaints from co-workers about “shouty” and confrontational e-mails, including [...] A recent UPI story details the case of Mark Guard, charged with stealing electricity in London. The taxpayers will have to pay over £5,000 (US$8,200) for the two separate hearings before the case was dropped. Mark was filming a documentary about crime and the homeless. During the filming squatters entered a vacant building, setting off [...] I can see this one happening in the US, too. The Daily Mail reports on a well-meaning resident of a street called St. John’s Close, off of St. John’s Road, near St. John’s Church. The residents insist upon naming it St. Johns Close–without the apostrophe. Stefan Gatward objected quite vocally to the motion of Birmingham’s [...] Okay, last UK-related story for a while, I promise. But it’s not like I’m ending this string with a whimper, or even a garden variety bang. No, don the earplugs, kids, because this story is more like a sonic boom. The Daily Mail reports on a truly frightening case of predatory lending, more coloquially called [...] The Register reports on one of the more alarming attacks on civil liberties in the UK. Two people have been convicted for refusing to hand over encryption keys. This highly controversial UK law went into effect in 2007 October. Of a total of 15 notices served under this law, there were 11 cases of non-compliance, [...] The Daily Mail reports on probably one of the most bizarre deportation hearings I’ve ever read about. An anonymous woman referred to in court only as “A” has been threatened with extradition because of a dispute over her sexual identity. In essence, the Home Office (a UK government agency which oversees immigration, the rough equivalent [...] |
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