November 30, 2010 – 3:49 am
New Conservative peer Howard Flight has issued an “unreserved” apology for saying child benefit changes would encourage the poor to “breed”. In a statement issued by the party, Mr Flight said he would like to withdraw the remark, made to a newspaper. His comments came after David Cameron urged him to apologise but rejected calls [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, England, Funnies, Marriage, Philosophy, Politics, Society, Welfare
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Tagged dave new world, david cameron, house of lords, howard flight, UK conservative party
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November 29, 2010 – 5:57 am
Drivers across the UK are being warned to take extra care as the working week begins amid further heavy snow and ice. Parts of eastern England and Scotland already under thick snow could get up to 25cm (10in) more by Monday morning. Plummeting temperatures overnight will lead to icy roads in many places, while strengthening [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Environment, General, scotland
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Tagged brass monkeys, braveheart, climate change, Edinburgh, mel gibson, slang, snow, weather
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November 27, 2010 – 6:19 am
First, the good news is that my PhD passed with minor revisions (mostly typographical). Hurrah! I am getting the final version bound as we speak. Secondly, sorry I haven’t been around much. I was giving at paper at this conference hosted by the CMCL, and I only had the brief interlude between finishing marking and [...]
November 25, 2010 – 7:44 am
[One of the things people of my generation have never experienced is what I came to call -- while writing Bring Laws & Gods -- 'reflexive patriotism.' That is, a patriotism where conquest is a good thing, soldiers are always noble and -- most important -- where regular people back both the government and the [...]
November 23, 2010 – 10:21 pm
After a special service at Westminster Abbey later, the Queen is to open the Church of England’s general synod. The synod gets the honour of a royal inauguration because this is the established, state Church and the Queen is its supreme governor. The synod – the Church’s legislative body – is the only institution outside [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, England, Feminism, Funnies, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Society
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Tagged Anglican Church, Anglicanism, C of E, church of england, established church, general synod, Queen Elizabeth II, Robert Piggot, Roman Catholic Church, women bishops, women priests, women's ordination
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November 22, 2010 – 3:17 pm
(from Wikimedia Commons) According to Confucian ideals, filial piety is the ultimate value. Hence, it permeates many Asian societies. There is notionally no need for the state to provide for care for the elderly, because the children will look after their parents in their old age. The rather creepy statue above depicts Japanese man Ryochi [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Law, Motherhood, Parenthood, Religion, Society
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Tagged china, East, family, family law, father, filial piety, japan, mother, old age, paganism, parenthood, parents, pietas, reform, Romans, singapore, welfare, welfare state, West
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November 21, 2010 – 8:40 am
In January of 2009 I wrote this post. Here’s the first paragraph: In yesterday’s Herald the irritatingly smug Prof Bob Cummins popped up again to remind us that people who live in the Inner West of Sydney are the unhappiest in Australia. Apparently people who live in a small town in Victoria (popn 4000) are [...]
November 21, 2010 – 7:30 am
I’m fascinated by cases where people are forced to cough up their ill-gotten gains (in my field, we call it ‘disgorgement’). Now, as I’ve noted on the recent David Hicks post, most of the cases involve ex-spies or something of that sort. Heath G has alerted me to a case which is a little out [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Animals, Law, Society
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Tagged aims of criminal law, criminal law, dingo, dingos, disgorgement, disgorgement damages, feeding dingos, Fraser Island, Jennifer Parkhurst, proceeds of crime
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November 20, 2010 – 9:12 am
Once again Rafe has done his round-up at Catallaxy Files and Don Arthur has done Missing Link at Troppo, so for a diverse selection of bloggy goodness, do check both out. In other news, I have seen a few pieces around the interwebs on the new security screenings at US airports, and how they amount [...]
November 18, 2010 – 9:44 pm
…The market will supply. In Legal Eagle’s thread on alternative forms of assessment, Patrick dropped a link in the comments thread that exposed the extent of a problem I’ve long known about but couldn’t pin down with any precision. That problem concerns students — at all levels, including doctoral candidates — submitting customised material produced [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Academia, Education, Intellectual property, Internet, Law
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Tagged Chronicle of Higher Education, credentialism, Ed Dante, ESL, language acquisition, paper mills, Turn-it-in
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