Category Archives: politics

Stupid government websites

Geeklawyer recently attended the illuminating Web2.0 Transformational government conference at Parliament. It was attended by a small number of very switched on Government types who ‘got’ the Web and the possibilities of collaboration and open standards.
Great, but regrettably it was chaired by the total cock Alun Micheal who displayed the modesty and self-deprecation, in the […]

Nanny state at it again

Gordon Brown is not, so far, the disaster that Tony Bliar was but it is surely just a matter of time. He is at least genuinely of the left and more focussed on policy than media headlines. Of course that isn’t always a good thing. The left are inclined to paternalism and to lack any […]

Unquenchable fires and Blair

It seems that some things burn eternally and cannot be extinguished by the efforts of mere man: the underground coal fire that rages in Pennsylvania that has burnt for 46 years and is still going strong; or the obsession of Geeklawyer’s growing band of female stalkers (and the odd male one we’ll gloss over […]

Sharia law in the UK?

Geeklawyer doesn’t buy into the tabloid hysteria about all things Islamic, but one repellent aspect of Islam is Shariah law with it’s barbaric primitive and cretinous belief that cutting off the hands of thieves, stoning adulterers and coercing women into servility is good.
So he was somewhat horrified that it should gain any measure, even the […]

Sleazebag Blair - corruption finally pays off

It is rumoured that Sleazy Tony was a bit miffed that he wasn’t as rich as he felt he deserved to be. Supposedly his heroic self-sacrifice in giving up a failed career at the Bar and suffering the indignity of living off his QC wife’s earnings and reputation wasn’t truly recompensed by his public salary.
His […]

de Menezes - police found guilty on health and safety charges

About bloody time.
The CPS should now reconsidering their corrupt decision not to give a jury a chance to render an opinion on the firearms officers and senior officers who executed him.
The jury said no culpability of Commander Dick - I disagree but at least a jury got a say.
Details of any fine - potentially unlimited […]

IP mentioned in Parliament

Geeklawyer is impressed and also concerned that Darling specifically mentioned intellectual property in his speech to Parliament today. For politicians to have an interest in IP is mostly good; the concern will be that it will be driven by simplistic policies favouring the wishes of American lobbyists in the UK.

Different asshole - same shit

Geeklawyer notes that all of the Supreme Leader’s pro-civil liberties “I’m not as bad as Tony Blair” guff is turning out to be crap. He can’t get enough airtime to bleat about how beastly the Burmese government are to crush peaceful protesters in their capital. Yet oddly he is not following through on his promise […]

Burma

Attentive readers with long memories may recall that Geeklawyer is around 300th in line to the Burmese throne. He therefore watches the unfolding events in that benighted land with horror. Only North Korea can challenge Burma as the worst place in the World to live. But whereas North Korea is nation gripped […]

An end to health and safety madness?

Geeklawyer, a pioneer in the difficult art of combining “red in tooth and claw” free market principles with corporate social responsibility, congratulates John Redwood for his latest plans to revitalise capitalism in the UK.
For the past decade we have laboured under the woolly communist thinking of pinko lefty Tony Bliar cynically masquerading as neo-conservativism, […]