Category Law

The immigration test precedent, the legal ruling

To summarise the case of Baljinder Singh V Hammond: “An immigration officer is entitled || to conduct an examination of a person || IF he has information in his POSSESSION which causes him to inquire.” This legal ruling would seem to suggest that discriminating, mass stop and searches of all non-whites unfortunate enough to passes […]

Eton Rifles – What chance have you got against a tie and a crest?

In 2011 the King’s Scholarship application ‘General Paper’ form for the ‘elite’ Eton school asked 13-year old boys to imagine being Prime Minister in 2040 (they even got the age/timing about right, coincidentally) and writing a speech to justify as “necessary” and “moral” deploying the army to shoot protesters dead. (c) The year is 2040. There […]

Death parties are no surprise, John Cooper QC

John Cooper QC, as published in the Evening Standard on Thursday 11 April 2013 (emphasis added). The claim that Margaret Thatcher would have enjoyed the demonstrations of anger against her is a mark of the woman. Her strength was leading from the front and trampling all in her way, and it is wholly reasonable that […]

Choice Excerpts from ‘Max Clifford: Read All About It’

Excerpts from ‘Max Clifford: Read All About It’, by Max Clifford and Angela Levin.  Or, why the Tories might like to see the back of Max Clifford. Max Clifford and the Tories p26: “My interest in the Labour party developed differently — more the PR side of politics than active participation.  Some people have said […]

A Brief History of Libel, Part 1 — John Major

“Our system is not one of justice, but of law” — Edna Buchanan A Brief History of Libel, Part 1 — John Major In 1993 the then Prime Minister, John Major, set his libel-sights on two publications in relation to claims that he was having an affair with a freelance cook among his staff, Clare […]