What affects us affects cats
The UK government is being very inconsistent when it comes to terrorism and public safety. Small and peaceful protest groups can be treated like dangerous criminals, while foreign military groups that have done serious harm are not labelled as terrorists. This shows a lack of clear thinking and poor decision-making. Labour’s government has already …
Summary: Ultimately it is poor admin and not juries which causes inefficiencies and delays in the British justice system. It is broken as are so many of the publicly run services in this benighted country. Lammy, the Justice Secretary, is a fool. He thinks that if he bans juries from many criminal trials it …
The think tank in the backroom at No 10 have come up with a new wheeze: to declare very publicly that the government will be tackling animal welfare issues in the New Year. The purpose? To distract attention from their disastrous governmental decisions and failures such as (there are many more than this short …
The UK Government has declined to introduce new legislation that would obligate motorists to stop and report — or take injured animals to a vet — if they hit a cat. The response follows a petition calling for changes to the law. The campaign urged the Government to extend the same legal protections currently …
News media today reports: “Protests supporting banned terror group Palestine Action were ‘almost gloating over the Yom Kippur attack’, the Board of Deputies of British Jews has said.” The entirely peaceful Palestine Action protests are about freedom of speech. They want to undo the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation which it …
Remember the rejection of modest welfare cuts by the current Labour government several months ago in order to trim back (more actually needed) the burgeoning and unmanageable welfare expenses which burden this country to the tune of £313 billion in 2024/25 and which will climb to £373 billion by 2019/30? The draft law (a …
Today (5th Sept) Shabana Mahmood has been promoted to home secretary by Sir Keir Starmer in a major ministerial reshuffle following the resignation of Angela Rayner. As the new Home Secretary, her first and immediate decision should be how to deal with the Palestine Action supporters who will carry banners and placards in Parliament …
When five police officers turned up to arrest comedian Graham Linehan over a tweet, the nation once again asked: what on earth are the police doing? This latest debacle is not about Parliament passing a misguided law — it is about the police making poor decisions and losing sight of common sense. The Law …
