Tag: David Lammy
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Expensive and ineffective?
If you’re beginning to doubt the importance of jury trials, please consider the possibility that you’re being led into error by a government that is pathologically resistant to justice and accountability. Since David Lammy announced the latest step in dismantling our (formerly world-class) justice system, I’ve seen two arguments against jury trials being passed around…
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Politicians are the aggressors. Peoples are the peacemakers
The Freedom Flotilla is on the move, and this time the eyes of the world are on them, and a massive march to Gaza is heading the same way. This is how it always works – politicians treat the world like a chess board. They plan and action the wars, the occupations, the oppression and…
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What kind of country tolerates police seizing people’s books?
Yep, it happened. It happened in Wales. As one woman put it to me recently, surely that’s a red line for everyone. This was a gathering in support of a woman who was arrested, detained for ten hours, and has been messed about ever since. The police searched her house, and took a book they…
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The Cervix Question – how difficult can it be?
David Lammy has just demonstrated as clearly as anyone ever did why we say ‘men don’t listen to women’. Are women ‘dinosaurs’ who are ‘hoarding their rights’? This notion of Lammy’s was beautifully illustrated by Alex Kenny on t’internet… … but oh my goodness, Lammy really was the star of men making idiots of themselves…
Kay Green 