A man was just convicted and fined for burning a Koran, under a blasphemy law by another name.

A reminder this government is also drawing up proposals for reintroduction of blasphemy laws. They know where they can shove their crucifix.

On the criminal side, It’s identity fraud, and also an offence under the Misuse of Computers Act, gaining access to a system unauthorisedly. Civilly, it’s almost certainly a violation of the ToS.

Neil Parish MP: I’m resigning after porn moment of madness

Chuck Lorre intensifies

I’ll wait for the movie

The institutions insist he’ll be gone in 4 years and will go back to normal.

Because French senators are paid per month, while Lords are not salaried, instead claiming per day they sit in the house. The idea is to have accomplished people in their field come and sit in the Lords on days when their expertise would be useful, rather than to have a professionalised body where members are expected to sit every day of the parliamentary session.

So an eminent technologist may be made a Lord, and would be useful when such matters are discussed, but perhaps not so useful when debating agricultural land use.

This is one of the reasons why there are so many members. They aren’t all expected to gather at the same time in the same place.

Then again, non-governmental members of the Lords can only claim up to £371 per day for attendance, and then only for normal business, or they can choose to claim half or none of it. In addition travel expenses can be claimed in special circumstances.

Meanwhile, each Fr*nch senator costs the taxpayer approximately (per month) €5,423 base + €6,109 expenses + €8,696 staff allowance = €20,228 per senator per month.

Appeasing tankies is such a winning strategy.

Britain has never had term limits.

Until the Night of the Long Knives, a very significant number of the Nazis were gay, most notably Ernst Röhm the head of the SA.

It’s a civil case.

The Science and Technology Secretary was more concise on X today:

“If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that.”

36 currently, including Ireland, Canada, India, Australia, Thailand, Nepal, Singapore, Israel, Italy, Denmark and Japan.

The big deal is that he broke the law. In some countries that’s the end of a political career.

The database is for official use only. There is a disclosure scheme where a member of the public can ask the police whether a specific person (who is in unsupervised contact with children) is a registered sex offender or poses other threat to a child.

There do seem to be crowdsourced vigilante databases culled from media reports, which is probably a very bad idea.

The EU is also adopting similar regulations.

Usually Cloudflare fights (successfully) against the orders, laying the responsibility with ISPs. This marks a change in corporate policy.

Just wait to hear how hostile they are to people who live on oilfields.