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11.10.06
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The BBC reports a new scheme to encourage young school children to role play the effects of taking drugs: Pupils act out effects of drugs:
Primary school pupils will be encouraged to act out the effects of LSD and cannabis as part of an anti-drug programme.
Hmm - notice they didn't choose ecstasy. "Now children, I want you all to hug each other, make friends with someone you don't know yet, and share your sweets with the whole class. No, stay awake Johnny, you're not doing it properly!"
I do wonder about the cannabis one though - they're a bit young to stay up till 3am talking shit and sorting the world's problems out aren't they?
As to LSD - why not just watch the Tweenies instead!
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03.01.08
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The former standards chief Sir Alistair Graham led calls yesterday for an inquiry into how a businessman linked to the Liberal Democrats’ biggest donor was given a peerage.
Sir Alistair called for the Lords Appointments Commission to examine how it was kept in the dark about £395,000 in gifts from the newly elevated Lord Hameed’s business partners.
Labour and Conservative MPs demanded action after an investigation by The Times revealed that Lord Hameed was helped towards his independent peerage by leading Liberal Democrat figures.
Yup - do it. Investigate all you like. I'm pretty confident they'll find that apart perhaps from a breakdown in communication, they'll find nowt amiss with all this. Hameed's "new" business partners have been Lib Dem supporters for a long time. He was nominated for a "people's peer" not a Lib Dem appointment, and just happened to get a Lib Dem peer on his supporter's list.
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17.07.07
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When they tell you that access to ID database information will be strictly controlled and how telephone and internet service provider records will not be accessible to every petty bureaucrat wanting to chase a council tax debt or whatever, remember this:
BBC NEWS | Politics | Met given real time C-charge data:
Met given real time C-charge data
The congestion charge covers central London
Police are to be given live access to London's congestion charge cameras - allowing them to track all vehicles entering and leaving the zone.
Anti-terror officers will be exempted from parts of the Data Protection Act to allow them to see the date, time and location of vehicles in real time.
They previously had to apply for access on a case-by-case basis.
Oh, and of course, it only has to be done by regulation, not law, so parliament has no recourse on this. What next, your Oyster Card used to track your movements via public transport? Oh, they already do you say?
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12.03.08
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Richard does a very funny piece on differing attitudes to coiffeur. Well worth a read. But Richard - it ain't just the girls. Last Tuesday when I was on duty I was called by a young male student resident who was out in town. He was calling to ask me to go check his room because he thought he had gone out leaving his hair straighteners turned on and burning a hole in his bedroom. He had, but such was the mess in his room I honestly couldn't tell if a fire had already happened or not!
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13.03.06
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In today's Lib Dem news releases Nick Clegg, our new man with the Home Office Briefs asks, in Met Chief must come up with a very good explanation for his behaviour:
"Sir Ian will have to come up with a very good explanation for this extraordinary behaviour."
Well - picture this: you're going to have a conversation with a man who allegedly changed his mind and legal opinion so many times before the country headed to war and now can't remember what he said when and to whom. Wouldn't you want at least a tape recorder?
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