Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

The Gathering Fog

Chimeric Photons: The Gathering Fog This is an outstanding photograph! Read more →

Own goal!

Ten of those Charles Clarke wants to deport are Algerians. And he hopes to get them back to Algeria. This is what the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website says about Human Rights in Algeria. "Alongside the violence committed by the... Read more →

Homeopathy- Just Water Please

I’ve never been persuaded that homeopathic “medicine” works. In fact unlike the latest scientific offering reported in the Lancet and abstracted by the BBC On Line, I have difficulty in accepting that it even works by the so-called placebo effect.... Read more →

Chahal Dilemma Part ii- Jens Soering

Jens Soering was a German national. In1985, he was studying at the University of Virginia with his girlfriend, a Canadian, Elizabeth Haysom. They were both arrested in the UK in 1986 in connection with cheque fraud. Whilst in custody, they... Read more →

By hook...I'll be first in Charles's Book!

This should be fun :from Americablog: "Next time Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, or anyone working for the religious right visits the UK, I want to see our loyal British readers petition their government to have these people deported for fostering... Read more →

Don't Mention the War.

Maureen Dowd in today's NYT makes this withering comment on Dubbya's, increasingly disconnected from reality, comments on Iraq! "For political reasons, the president has a history of silence on America's war dead. But he finally mentioned them on Monday because... Read more →

Sarge, I forgot the DVD!

I suspect when most lawyers familiar with defending those charged with criminal offences saw this, "The BBC has also learned the shooting was not captured on Stockwell Tube's CCTV because police officers had removed the cameras' disks for their investigation... Read more →

The Public Enquiry- R.I.P

Blogs often discuss important issues that seem to pass by the main media. This is an important example from Talk Politics. It's well worth reading. The entire nuts and bolts of the public enquiry have changed as a result of... Read more →

Rushing to Judgement.

It's absolutely right to examine in detail what the police said, both on and off the record, about the death of Mr Menezes at Stockwell tube station on the 22nd July 2005. Even before the Independent Police Complaints Commission publishes... Read more →

Magic Bullets and Loopholes ver2

On the 5th August, Tony Blair said: "France and Spain, to name just two other European countries, do deport by administrative decision. The effect is often immediate and in some cases the appeal is non-suspensive, in other words it takes... Read more →