I would not trust every detail of her story personally. It contains internal contradictions & she was clearly under a lot of stress. But it seems that she was read her rights, taken to the statio… (View Post)

It sounds like they were arresting her? Which means they would presumbly have had an arrest warrant. They wouldn’t have needed a separate warrant to search the premises in that case: An arrest warran… (View Post)

C4 sale, online safety, BBC licence feee review - all signed off by cabinet all ready to go All of these were either terrible ideas to start with, or workable ideas that were terribly implemented (no… (View Post)

One thing you can definitely say about Gove is that he takes his brief seriously & does the work to understand the implications of policy choices. Probably one of the things that made him unpopul… (View Post)

Apropos of nothing at all, apparently the oldest known recorded joke is about Sumerian newlyweds and anal sex. Plus ça change... (View Post)