January 24th, 2008 4 Comments »
Speaking on Radio 4 this morning, about the possibility of increasing the detention time for terror suspects to 42 days…
Presenter: So if that’s not a hypothetical case, then what is?
Jacqui Smith: Well, it won’t be hypothetical if and when it occurs. That’s precisely the point. We are not legislating now on the basis that we’re bringing it in now for something that might happen in the future. We’re putting in a provision for if it becomes unhypothetical…
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January 13th, 2008 No Comments »
The backlog of unsorted photos has been building up for a few months now, so I decided it was about time I did something with them. A selection from our September trip to Lisbon is now on Flickr…
Lisbon 2007 - Flickr photoset
Aah… sunshine!
January 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
The return to work after Christmas and New Year is never particularly easy (although I remember a time when the majority of people worked *between* the two rapidly-expanding winterfests).
When you started your belated summer holiday on Boxing Day, spending almost two weeks on a beautiful archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, where winter daytime temperatures generally stay above 16 degrees, where life is laid-back and everyone is friendly (apart from the miserable cow in the airport tourist tat shop)… well, work becomes a tricky prospect.
And I deserve no sympathy. Here goes…