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The Law in Action in Wycombe


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I spent this morning in the public gallery of one of Wycombe’s Magistrates’ courts. What I saw could have been a study for the Centre for Social Justice. What I witnessed today included the following cases (I dispense with the details for obvious reasons): Casual theft by a man with a methadone problem. Taking a vehicle without consent. Antisocial behaviour by a person with a history of drug and alcohol abuse, currently trying to turn their life around through work […]

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Meet the man who has exposed the great climate change con trick | The Spectator


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This week, The Spectator writes Meet the man who has exposed the great climate change con trick: James Delingpole talks to Professor Ian Plimer, the Australian geologist, whose new book shows that ‘anthropogenic global warming’ is a dangerous, ruinously expensive fiction, a ‘first-world luxury’ with no basis in scientific fact. Shame on the publishers who rejected the book. … ‘The hypothesis that human activity can create global warming is extraordinary because it is contrary to validated knowledge from solar physics, […]

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World Bank warns on ‘human crisis’ of high food prices


World Bank president Robert Zoellick urged governments to act to contain a mounting “human crisis” today, as he warned that 44 million of the world’s poorest people would be driven into malnutrition this year, as a result of high food prices. read more | digg story

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“A victim of the State”


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A young homeless woman asked me to buy a Big Issue just outside the conference area and then asked me, “If you get in, what are you going to do about poverty in this county? The Government seems very keen to get in with everyone else, but what are you going to do in this country?” Happily, I was able to answer, but that’s not the point of the post. She looked unblinkingly at me and said, “I’m a victim […]

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Poverty: how well is DWP helping people?


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Poverty in Britain remains horrifying. For example, about 7% of households cannot afford a single hobby or leisure activity and a quarter cannot manage to save £10 a month for rainy days or retirement. Bleak. But the DWP plans to spend just over £130 billion in 2008. Surely some mistake, so I did a quick calculation based on 2007 numbers: Now, as a first estimate, it appears that DWP manages to spend almost twice as much as the poverty threshold […]

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Helping the homeless, the bureaucratic way.


There’s a homeless man I see every day, who sleeps in a subway. He’s pleasant and harmless. He used to be a promising chef apparently. People choose to give him money: he never asks. He keeps himself smart and clean, thanks to a nearby centre that opens in the week, during the day. He’s handing out Christmas cards to people who have helped him this year. He was arrested this week for begging. He spent the night in the cells […]

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