The Children’s Tooth Fairy (Shillings Under the Pillow) Regulations 2009
April 4, 2009•41 words
If you work with or are otherwise familiar with statutory instruments then this may make you laugh as much as it did me.
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Not everyone cares though
March 28, 2009•308 words
Everyday it's the same outside the kids school. Cars parked up lining both sides of the road. On the side you can't see here, drivers park their cars half on the road and half on the pavement. This makes it a bit of a squeeze to pass by. If you have a chair or a buggy forget about it.
Throughout the winter many of the drivers sit in their cars smoking fags with their engines running as they wait for their precious ones' to come out of school. I guess now the weather is warming up a bit they...
Read postFootage showed police push Mr Tomlinson
April 8, 2009•303 words
"We're up for it and we're up to it..." _Cmdr. Simon O'Brien of London's Metropolitan Police 26/03/09. Speaking about the policing arrangements for the G20 Financial Fools Day Demonstrations in London.
The nonchalant attitude towards their colleagues behaviour and the victim of the assault indicates this type of violence is common place and perhaps considered reasonable.
The key concept is that of "reasonable force" - i.e. force that is in proportion to the threat faced either by...
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