Category Archives: The filth

It isn’t just about T-shirts - it’s about respect.

August 13, 2007 – 8:21 pm

The decent folks of Peterborough can rest a little easier tonight. The recent spate of horrifying incidents of people wearing mildly rude t-shirts looks to be being brought under control.
Dave Pratt may be, it is hoped, the last foully attired chap in that poor benighted besieged town. The lethargic Police Community Support Officers seem finally […]

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Lords rush in where fools fear to tread?

August 10, 2007 – 7:48 pm

Geeklawyer confesses to a degree of uncertainty when reading of the report (Thanks Martin) of the House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee. As is usually the case it is a bit of a curates egg: the usual crap about the Internet being the plaything of Satan and how wonderful it could be.
Some ideas were […]

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DNA everyone? Yes say police. Erm, OK *nearly* everyone

August 3, 2007 – 7:41 pm

Well yea, DNA can be useful it’s true. We could catch more one-off and long-period crimes if we DNA’d everyone in the world. Or at least the UK. Our cops like to go for a nice easy populist solution and most governments, Blair’s certainly, and perhaps Browns (?) likewise. So the proposal to DNA sample […]

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Faking it

August 2, 2007 – 4:15 pm

Geeklawyer is saddened to reveal yet another sorry episode in fakery by a major UK media organisation. One can’t profess surprise when Sky and the junk cable channels fake it.
I mean really, come on, did you really expect ‘Picking up Hot Girls and Shagging on the First Date‘ to be real?! Nah.
And when it’s the […]

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