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… … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2005
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 … Continue reading
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… … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading