Category Archives: Human Rights

That’s just not cricket

January 2, 2012 – 11:11 am

Tweet Another year, another immigrant being allowed to stay in the UK for the flimsiest of reasons. Last year we had the person allowed to stay because he went to the gym and before that the famous Bolivian-student-allowed-to-stay-because-they-owned-a-cat. Of course, the important thing about both of those cases is that those were not the reasons [...]

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David Cameron, Human Rights and the Daily Mail

October 2, 2011 – 12:46 pm

Tweet There is a reason that I tend to focus on the Daily Mail – when I know they are not alone in wallowing in terrible journalism – and the reason is that the Daily Mail seems to wield significant political influence. This morning David Cameron said the following on the Andrew Marr show: Prime [...]

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Human Rights wrongly blamed, again

September 26, 2011 – 9:23 pm

Tweet Another day, another chance to blame Human Rights for something: ‘Prison van driven 96 miles to take defendant 60 YARDS to court as “walking will infringe his human rights”‘. The Mail claims: A prison van travelled 96 miles to transfer a defendant just 60 yards from a police station to a court because walking [...]

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Dystopian futures

February 15, 2011 – 4:48 pm

Tweet ‘The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering — a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons — a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting — [...]

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The Daily Mail and the Gay Agenda

January 24, 2011 – 7:36 pm

Tweet /* This post originally appeared on my old blog on 30 April 2009. As part of the migration of content from my old blog I may occasionally post them here as a current post if I feel they are relevant. Due the the constant themes / narratives in the Daily Mail old posts often [...]

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