Adam Lambert Pisses Off America
(picture source) It’s really simple America. Out gay megastar and ‘American Idol’ runner-up Adam Lambert has caught out your homophobic hypocrisy. So he grinds his crotch against a male dancer’s face, he snogs a male band member – much much more overtly sexual behaviour by wo

Police Rampantly Abusing Right to Representation
Half of all suspects aren’t using the free legal representation they’re entitled to because of police pressure: Solicitors questioned by the National Audit Office (NAO) say they believe that the reason half of all suspects do not use their free services is a direct result of the

Film Review: A Serious Man (Spoilers)
If you’re a Coen Brothers fan you’ll love this. ‘A Serious Man’ is a terribly (and typically) ideosynchratic work by Joel & Ethan, which equally typically fascinates and infuriates in equal measure. The plot is simple enough – Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a theoretical physics professor in a closely knit Jewish community in the American midwest in the 1960s, who suddenly finds his entire world falling apart through no fault of his own. His wife is leaving him, his kids are fighting, he’s being bribed by a Korean student and his son’s on drugs – he saw none of this coming and has no idea what to do. What follows is a gently humoro

Religions Can’t Avoid Equality
The government has been forced by the European Commission to withdraw its religious exemptions to sexual orientation equality legislation after a complaint by the National Secular Society: The ruling follows a complaint from the National Secular Society, which argued that the opt-outs went further than was permitted under the directive and had created “illegal discrimination agai

Minority Report On The Way!
Over the span of this Labour government we’ve seen the degradation of the rule of law and attacks on evidence-based policy making, but now we have full-blown pre-criminalisation: He said the [human genetics] commission had received evidence from a former police superintendent that it was now the norm to arrest offenders for everything possible. “It is apparently understood by serving police officers that one of the reasons, if not the reason, for the change in practice is so that the DNA of the offender can be obtained,” said Montgomery, adding that it wo