April 28, 2011 – 11:28 pm
UPDATE: But sometimes, it’s just nice when the fuss is all over…
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Australia, Britain, Events, Funnies, History
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Tagged ABC, afghanistan, archbishop of caterbury, Australian Broadcasing Coporation, barry humphries, BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, buckingham palace, centrepoint, cherie blair, clarence house, coldstream guards, commonwealth, court of st james, dame edna, david cameron, fiona goble, Gordon Brown, guy ritchie, have i got news for you, horseguards, ian hislop, irish guards, john major, Kate Middleton, kiss me kate beer, knit your own royal wedding, lego, London, margaret thatcher, muslims against crusades, Nick Clegg, paul merton, pez, prince charles, Prince Harry, prince philip, prince william, protest, Queen Elizabeth II, RAF search and rescue force, rowan williams, royal wedding, royal wedding sick bags, scots guards, st andrews university, the chaser, tony blair, UK coalition government, UK conservative party, UK labour party, UK liberal democrats, westminster abbey, windsor castle
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Law is a conservative profession. There is a reason why a large number of us still dress in clothes associated with the 18th century, and it isn’t because barristers’, advocates’ and judges’ kit flatters anyone, male or female, fat or thin. It’s because, in the law, when it ain’t broke, lawyers are disinclined to fix […]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Academia, Education, Law
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Tagged club troppo, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, F. A. Hayek, framing, John Rawls, Jonathan Haidt, jurisprudence, Ken Parish, legal education, social intuition, veil of ignorance
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I’m not usually prone to the twee or the ‘soft focus’ news story, but this baby elephant (which, incidentally, already weighs 350kg) is just so damn happy to be cooling off that I thought I’d share. Tuluba is a resident of Vienna’s zoo, and Austria’s spring has started with a bang (it’s been warm in […]
April 25, 2011 – 12:29 pm
If I were an indigenous person trying to make life better for my people, I’d prefer that my cause not be “adopted” by one particular side of politics. Once you get adopted by one side, the other side won’t look at your legitimate claims and grievances, regardless of how much merit they have. Just look at the recent furore involving […]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Australia, Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Law, Media, Racism, Society, The Left
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Tagged aboriginal, Andrew Bolt, australia, Australian politics, Bess Price, class, Feminism, freedom of speech, indigenous issues, Larissa Behrendt, Marxism, noel pearson, Sue Stanton, The Left, The Right, twitter, women's rights
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April 24, 2011 – 12:01 am
Enjoying the peace of absent window installers this Easter Weekend (back on Monday unfortunately due to the ‘negotiable’ religious holidays of the Roman Law tradition here in Scotland) I’ve been sparing a thought for what Easter means to me as a non-religious Christian of Quaker affiliation. After a childhood of Sunday School thanks to the […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Privacy, Public Policy, Religion, Skeptics, Society, Welfare
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Tagged alarm-clock britain, Catholic Church, christianity, crucifixion, david cameron, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, disability living allowance, DLA, do unto others, DWP, Easter, empathy, golden rule, Iain Duncan Smith, incapacity benefit, isaiah berlin, Jesus of Nazareth, native american proverbs, Nick Clegg, protestantism, quakers, symbolism, the sermon on the mount, The Sun, walk two moons in a man's moccasins
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… Both love and mankind are grass… When I was a child and something shitty happened (which I then complained about), my father would often point out that ‘it’s only temporary!’ At the time I hated it, in part because no-one wants to admit that great truths can also sometimes be a bit glib. However, […]
SYDNEY’S Villawood Detention Centre last night erupted into violence with rioting detainees setting fire to the facility and forcing guards to retreat. More than 30 firefighters were battling to control blazes in up to three of the centre’s buildings after detainees gathered furniture which they lit and then hurled. The rioting followed a day-long protest […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Australia, Economics, Fark!, Funnies, Immigration, Law, Media, Middle east, Politics, Society
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Tagged asylum seekers, christmas island riot, Ian Rintoul, illegal immigrants, Jamal Daoud, villawood detention centre
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Here in Melbourne, I’ve been rather freaked out by the trial and sentencing of Arthur Freeman, a man who threw his four-year-old daughter Darcey off the Westgate Bridge on what was to be her first day of school on 29 January 2009. For non-Melburnians, the Westgate Bridge is a massive expanse spanning the Yarra River […]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Feminism, Law, Marriage, Parenthood, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged arthur freeman, Coghlan J, criminal law, darcey freeman, domestic violence, Feminism, murder, peta barnes, provocation, relationship breakdown, unfaithfulness, Westgate Bridge
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Having put an A in the bank for my Roman law essay, and being so lazy (and weighed down with preparing for Faculty of Advocates exams) that I don’t have another blog post to hand, I thought I’d share the essay with our regulars. As people who’ve been reading my stuff since I used to […]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Economics, Human/Civil rights, Law
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Tagged 'get off my lawn', Adam Smith, alan watson, boris johnson, castle doctrine, cicero, civil law, Clint Eastwood, equity, FA Hayek, Gran Torino, implied repeal, law and economics, legal evolution, Mary Beard, Moses Finley, Peter Temin, praetor, praetorian edict, private law, Roman magistracies, rule of law, slavery, spontaneous order, system of writs
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There was an interesting article in The Australian today that the “Bright burning star at the birth of King Charles II was supernova, Cassiopeia A” but when I went looking for a better picture I found this one of centaurus instead. NASA APOD, April 13th – Centaurus Radio Jets Rising Credit: Ilana Feain, Tim Cornwell […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Art, Australia, Environment, General, Internet, Personal, Science, Skeptics, Technology
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Tagged astronomy, ATCA, ATNF, Australian Telescope Compact Array, cassiopeia A, centaurus, CSIRO, eye candy du jour, king charles II, Narrabri, NASA, New South Wales, photography, radio telescope, supernova
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