Archive for the 'crime' Category
Pants to paedophiles preferring pleats
Yazan: Sara | 31 May 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: children, crime, Scotland
Today’s Daily Mail caries a story bizarre even by that publication’s usual standards. So bizarre that I was not prepared to believe it until I had obtained verification from another source. But it is true. A secondary school in Glasgow has changed its school uniform regulations and in order to frighten parents itno complying has [...]
Huntley: Totally in the wrong, but completely right
Yazan: Sara | 01 August 2010 | No Comments
Categories: crime
As a mother of a daughter and a human being, I was revolted by Ian Huntley’s murder of two 10 year old girls. He is locked up for a sentence where it appears life will really mean life. Good. He should never be allowed to walk the streets again. I don’t believe in the death [...]
I agree with Dave – he just doesn’t get it
Yazan: Sara | 15 July 2010 | 3 Comments
Categories: crime, David Cameron, Uncategorized
So David Cameron thinks Facebook should remove the ghoulish support page for Raoul Moat. I am not sure what he thinks it would achieve. Anyone who uses Facebook knows that there are mad and stupid pages and groups on the site – and also some very good ones too. Charities and campaign groups flourish and [...]
Rape, responsibility, blame and feminism
Yazan: Sara | 16 February 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: crime, women
If you go out and leave your front door open, are you asking to be burgled? If you leave your laptop on the passenger seat of a parked car, is it your fault if the computer is stolen? If you get into bed naked with a man who fancies you and encourage him to have sex [...]
Parliamentary privilege should not mean criminal immunity
Yazan: Sara | 05 February 2010 | No Comments
Categories: crime, expenses, MPs
The news that the Messrs Chaytor, Devine, Morley and Lord Hanningfield make seek to utilise parliamentary privilege to escape prosecution under the Theft Act 1968 has dealt another blow against the reputation of Parliament. The thought that parliamentarians may try to use Article 9 of the Bill of Rights Act 1689 as a shield against [...]
Do criminals have human rights?
Yazan: Sara | 31 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, crime, criminal justice, David Cameron
Two hours before David Cameron made his ‘dynamite’ quote about the human rights of burglars, I was watching BBC1′s The Big Question. A young mother stated that she believed that paedophiles ‘had lost their human rights when they chose to abuse a child’. I find this rather disconcerting. Surely every human has inalienable human rights? That doesn’t [...]
Put your dog whistle down, David
Yazan: Sara | 31 January 2010 | 3 Comments
Categories: Conservatives, crime, criminal justice, David Cameron
Earlier this afternoon, David Cameron told BBC1′s Politics Show “The moment a burglar steps over your threshold, and invades your property, with all the threat that gives to you, your family and your livelihood, I think they leave their human rights outside.” To many people, dismayed by recent headline court cases, I expect this sounds [...]
Daily Mail promotes thieves and vandals charter
Yazan: Sara | 18 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: crime, criminal justice, newspapers
An article in today’s Daily Mail shows all the signs of a cut and shut story which has seriously lost its way. The piece entitled ‘Minor ‘crimes’ of the middle classes raking in a £400m fortune for cash-hungry councils’ starts with the usual Mailesque jibe at fines for putting your rubbish bin out on the [...]
High on drugs, yet soft on drivers?
Yazan: Sara | 04 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: crime, criminal justice, drugs
Just before Christmas, the Government published two media releases on the subject of crime and sentencing. The first concerned making several ‘legal highs’ illegal; the second announced a review of the maximum sentences for dangerous driving. What grabbed my attention was the current similarity of sentences for very different crimes. Currently the maximum sentence for [...]
Is my 12 year old daughter really a terrorist threat?
Yazan: sarabedford | 24 March 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: civil liberties, crime, criminal justice, surveillance, transport
Mark Pack has cleverly highlighted the perceived threat that vegetarians pose to society. The Government has discovered that there are certain patterns of behaviour that may lead to someone being a terrorist – and one of those is ordering an in-flight vegetarian meal. That puts my 12 year old daughter up there with the worst of them. [...]
