The supreme court ruled today that Raymond McCartney and Eamonn MacDermott are entitled to compensation for being wrongly convicted of murder during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. This news doesn’t seem to have made much of an impact, which, when you look at the actual substance and implications of the judgement, is kind of odd: [...]
In what some boring chauvinist somewhere is almost certainly calling ‘a victory for common sense’, the European Court of Justice yesterday ruled that car insurance providers can’t charge men higher premiums to men simply on the grounds of their sex, overturning years of flagrantly anti-male discrimination by the insurance industry. Or, if you prefer, unelected [...]
Under proposals unveiled last week, police may gain the power to shut down websites with nothing more than an email. Nominet is the umbrella body the manages all domain names ending in uk (ie .co.uk and .org.uk). Following a request from the Serious Organised Crime Agency, they are considering adjusting the terms under which they [...]
Hey, remember that time a couple of months ago when Trafigura tried to stop the Guardian from reporting what was said in Parliament? Want to stop the rich and powerful from using the threat of expensive court cases to bully writers, scientists and academics into censoring themselves? PEN and Index on Censorship have teamed up [...]
“The spice extends life, the spice expands consciousness, the spice is vital to space travel.” At least that’s according to Virginia Madsen in the opening monologue of David Lynch’s cult classic, Dune. In reality, Spice does not extend life, it does not expand consciousness and, unless NASA has come up with some new propulsion technology [...]
