In fact it was just another 419 spam in my inbox, but it did make me think:
The Tories complaining about a proposed Labour poster with their leader as a flying pig, because it is offensive to his Jewish faith… would that be the same Tory party that depicted the active Christian, Tony Blair, as a demon?
From an ad in the Metro on Wednesday (one of those stupid 'lowest unique bid' auctions lotteries): "the most unique price". I can't remember the site, and Google returns about 1.3 million pages for the phrase "most unique".
What is it with Americans and breasts? OMG! Breasts!! On a young adult!!!. The obscenity is in the price.
the obituary for Judge Boreham (most famous for being in charge of trials of the 'Yorkshire Ripper' Peter Sutcliffe and the Brighton bomber Patrick Magee).
As is usual, he'd been a leading barrister before being appointed as a judge, including…
In 1970, he appeared in one of the more exceptional murder cases of the time, representing Trooper Michael Hanson, who was charged with his wife Carol over the sexual assault and murder of a 10-year-old girl near Colchester. Carol Hanson claimed her husband had stabbed the child to death.
Four days into the trial, Hanson told Boreham that he had, in fact, killed the girl, but that he wanted his wife put away to stop her associating with other men. He nevertheless refused to change his plea to guilty and, as a result, Boreham neither cross-examined Carol Hanson nor made a closing speech to the jury. Despite this, she was also convicted, and jailed for a recommended minimum of 20 years. An application for a retrial was refused, and, in 1997, she died in obscurity in prison.
There's more about the case here, but for one of the UK's main miscarriages of justice of the last century, there's amazingly little on google.
At 27 years inside before her death, she shared the 'record' with Stephen Downing (freed), a decade longer than the Bridgewater Four (17 years), the Birmingham Six (16 years) or the Guildford Four (15 years).
You get an email, apparently from your hotmail account, which you know you did not send.
It has an attachment with an odd name.
Do you open it?
There are people who would, and one of them works here.
"I thought it was a bit odd, and I was curious, so…"
The law in (edit!) England & Wales used to be absolutely clear: STI infection during consensual sex was not assault, even when the infection was deliberately concealed from the partner.
But in the past couple of years, there have been three successful prosecutions of men for sexual transmission of HIV. They're going through various retrials and appeals, but the basic question remains:
Should sexual transmission of HIV be a criminal offence?
What about when someone lies about their HIV status in order to get their partner to consent to unprotected sex?