Except of course they don't. The new guidelines from earlier in the year were that the police shoukd not withold information on ethnic background unless releasing it would hinder the investigati… (View Post)

Land of the Free part 2: The EU just used a clever little voting tactic to reinstate automated monitoring of private chat on social media. The proposal had been rejected 4 times already by the Europe… (View Post)

The answer IMHO is to reduce the scope and the power of the parties. Very strict low spending limits concentrated on the constituencies and much greater limits on the ability of parties to influence … (View Post)

Yep that phrase did seem somewhat out of place. I have known a few genuine charmers over the years (as opposed to self declared ones) and they would never have stooped to anything so crass as these s… (View Post)

Point of order: for all that I am in favour of invading France - or reclaiming it as it would be properly phrased - I fear trying to find oil in France would be like trying to find chemical weapons i… (View Post)