“My family was advised that his deportation to Jamaica could be a typo which is indicative of the mistakes made on my brother’s case.” So where would he have been deported to but for the typo? Jamaida? Bamaica? Chile, naturally. The Home Office, a credit to the British government for sheer efficiency.
Read More Some TypoThe Home Office unaccountably continues to survive my best efforts to compass its abolition. On the other hand, though… Nobody ever did try to explain why the RAF Harriers in Kandahar were being withdrawn just as 3,000 British soldiers were deployed there, but the MOD did better than trying to explain it: they reversed the…
Read More Winning the other argumentWell, wasn’t Charles Clarke’s appearance on television fun? The boiling hatred and revenge just spumed off his hoggish cardiac-case chops. There’s enough lard in there to fuel a whole West Greenlandic tribe for a decade, even though elephant would be a novelty to them. Apparently the only reason anyone disagrees with house arrest without trial,…
Read More Like a Fiery (Safety) ElephantTom of Blairwatch has been doing some sums on how badly the ID card registration process is going to fuck up. You may recall we did something similar for the biometrics. Using the Home Office’s own figures, in which the best identifier (iris scanning) had a success rate of 96%, and assuming that each one…
Read More Scaling and Scoping an ID Card ProtestScienceblogs.com has rapidly become one of the best things on the Web, and today I saw this post of Pharyngula’s regarding a crazed god-nut college in the US where you can be disciplined for “making eye babies”, touching a person of the opposite sex (your own is fine, though homosexuality is a big no-no), or…
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