Posts Tagged ‘justice’
Election talk: fluff
Talk of a General Election in March is just fluff, unless we as a nation can decide what MPs are really for. But neither Brown nor Cameron, nor yet the Daily Telegraph, seem ready to face the real crisis: politics in Britain is broken, and it needs fixing fast. But what, and how? What kinds of Prime Minister are there? I made a little list: [...]
Honest answer to wrong question: Legg Report
Sir Thomas Legg's response to the MP expenses crisis is an honest answer to the wrong question. But it is still the wrong answer, and does little to assuage public anger, or to distinguish between the good, the bad, and the merely ugly. Legg's recommendations, which will form the basis of the deliberations of the Commons Members Estimate [...]
Government should help church out of unholy hole
A couple in Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire, have been forced to sell their farm to pay off a quarter of a million in legal bills and a £230,000 repair bill for a property not even theirs. Link to story. Anyone who has bought a house recently will have received a cryptic warning from their lawyers that they might be liable for church repairs — but [...]
What now with Megrahi?
Barak Obama has expressed his disappointment to Gordon Brown. But Gordon Brown continues to insist that he had nothing to do with Megrahi's release. Who should we believe, what should we think? Few in the Western world, I think, have any sympathy for the Lockerbie bomber. I certainly don't. There are of course many who believe that Megrahi [...]
