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Shaken Baby and unsafe convictions (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
What's it called when you bare face lie on oath, in police witness statements and your CV? Is it a criminal offence? Would we, mere mortals get away with it? So, everyone interested in the truth and justice, perhaps you need to ask questions about what the hell is going on - power to the people and all that may I suggest jack Straw first! Expert witness fees are paid out of our taxes, training for...
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eCards Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
And to think of all the money he could have saved at Ecards.co.uk! It’s been revealed that Blackburn MP Jack Straw spent almost £1,700 of taxpayers’ cash on official Christmas cards, last year. The Justice Secretary told MPs in a written parliamentary answer that £1,695 was spent on 3,800 printed cards and 400 ecards which were sent [...]
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Daniel1979 Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It has been three months since Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish prison and sent home to Libya to see out the final three months of his life in his home country. Today, Al-Megrahi lives, and according to Guido has been discharged from the medical centre that was treating him. Seems he is not so close to death after all. The Governments in Westminster and Edinburgh have lied...
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Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | yesterday
The two top posts in the EU are to be filled by Cathy Ashton and Herman Van Rompuy . Well, let's see. Van Rompuy - who is he? The Prime Minister of Belgium. Was he elected to that? No. Previous experience? A fair amount within Belgium. A bit like a sort of Belgian Jack Straw, but less senior. Good points? "Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe," Mr Van Rompuy said...
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John Hemming's Web Log (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The link is to the bill on parliament's website. The text of the bill follows from hereI wonder if the "guarantees" in this are "cast iron guarantees" or not.I need to go through the family proceedings stuff in detail, but it appears that Jack Straw's Civil Servants have betrayed him again and are setting up a system so that a journalist has to be present to say what went on and...
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Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Independent | Nov 10, 2009 By Ben Padley Jack Straw’s decision to no longer force applicants for the judiciary to declare if they are Freemasons was today branded a “disgrace” by a Labour MP. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) said there would again be a “cloak of secrecy” following the move by the Justice Secretary. Mr Straw said last week that [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From Cromwell to Cameron, the system has been defined by the rot at its centre. Now at last people can see how deep it goes Whisper it, but there is something very silly indeed about the UK's famously uncodified constitution. Stuart Weir and Stuart Wilks-Heeg, with a bit of help from their friends, have attempted to sum up how, in lieu of the sort of document that most countries take for granted,...
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The Gray Monk's Scriptorium (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The story of an elderly Australian motorist who managed to drive 370 miles after taking a wrong turn in New South Wales and wound up in Victoria near Geelong while out to buy a newspaper is amusing in one sense, espaecially as the old buffer has all his marbles and simply decided that, as he was lost, he might as well enjoy the drive. If only one could say that of the State Opening of Parliament yesterday....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I've been going to state openings for decades, and they get weirder. Obviously the Queen is a little older each year, and today she seemed to have a sore throat, so her catchphrase, "my lords, pray be seated", was almost inaudibly whispered. But she's a trouper, that girl, and the show always goes on. The whole thing has a dreamlike, phantasmagoric, fairytale quality. The setting is out...
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nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Hillary Clinton has gushed over David Miliband in an interview in which the US secretary of state called him "vibrant, vital, attractive and smart". In an article in American Vogue magazine in which Mr Miliband was described as "tall and dashing", the interviewer joked about developing a crush on the 44-year-old Foreign Secretary after hearing his British accent on the telephone....
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David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As Shadow Home Secretary in the run-up to the 1997 Election, Jack Straw personally campaigned for the votes of prison officers by promising to give them the right to strike. And, to his credit at the time, he did indeed give them that very right once he became Home Secretary. A decade later, what ridiculously still purported to be a Labour Government repealed that legislation of its own. And the Cabinet...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Aims to complete the 'unfinished business' of making the second chamber more democratic The House of Lords reform draft bill is designed to progress what Jack Straw described over the summer as "the unfinished business" of making the second chamber more democratic. The government is expected to rely on the outcome of free votes on Lords reform in 2007 to switch to elections for the majority...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The constitutional reform and governance bill clears the way for the phasing out of hereditary peers Introduced last July by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, this wide-ranging bill includes provisions to allow for the suspension, resignation and expulsion of members of the house of Lords. Straw framed the bill as the legislation necessary to "phase out hereditary peers from the second chamber"...
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Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Jack Straw has been accused of allowing politics to 'cloud his judgment' over the delayed release of the seriously ill Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Peer pressure, not punishment, is the way to make prisoners accept that there is no such thing as a victimless crime The government has a victims' champion – Sara Payne, mother of a murdered seven-year-old girl. I don't want to challenge Payne or anything she says; I can only express my sorrow for her suffering. It's the way the justice secretary, Jack Straw, hides behind her that I don't like....
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