I’m pleased to see that Guido Fawkes’s famous blog has pointed out the hypocrisy of Gafas Ray Ban outlet government ministers and hangers-on about this. Ruth Turner’s arrest makes silence from ministers more important, […]

I’m really appalled, scandalised and miffed by the reaction of ministers, and politicians close to the government, to Ruth Turner’s arrest on Friday morning in the “cash for honours” inquiry. This is a naked attempt to influence and prejudice a […]

The uncorrected version of his evidence isn’t on the Lords website yet, but I read on the BBC that Charles Clarke has made the most spectacularly dim remarks about the difficulties of being Home Secretary, about judges and the […]

I’m looking forward to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade’s judicial review of the decision of Attorney General, the SFO and the Prime Minister to discontinue the investigation into bribery in BAe’s Al Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia. I […]

I was amused over the weekend by this story about the police decision not to issue photos of prisoners on the run, because of fears about their human rights.

What utter, utter nonsense. It’s true that everyone has […]

Two interesting papers from Bondwoman about the European Constitution, and about constitutional prognosis over the next few years.

I think it’s depressing that the German Presidency intends to try to revive this misconceived, failed project. Politicians across Europe […]

Yesterday it was reported that a team at Imperial College, London have developed a new, cheap version of interferon to treat hepatitis C, by altering its molecular structure. Instead of coating the interferon with sugar, they can insert […]

I notice that on her excellent EU Blawg (Bleuwg?) Bondwoman
(towards the end of her post) had earlier this month made a similar point to the one I made in my http://www.gooakley.com/ last post, about the UK’s […]

You’ve been on another continent if you don’t know these countries are joining the EU tomorrow.

Most of the media’s emphasis will be on the national measures the UK is entitled to take restricting the access of Bulgarians and […]

And Tom Stephens has been released on bail. Well, then, assuming Tom Stephens isn’t charged, there’s no harm done from all that risky coverage I was concerned about in earlier http://www.gooakley.com/ posts. No harm to the doing of […]