Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
We’ve just celebrated the 100th anniversary of Vann with an SPAB/Plumbers conference.
WD Caroe moved to Vann in July 1908
We heard the history of Vann (also called Fen, Fanny or even Ffanny, meaning a wet and boggy place), and about WD Caroe and the Arts & Crafts movement, with which his relatioship s sometimes questioned.
We heard [...]
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
ORG is supporting a campaign against copyright term extension:
Copyright in sound recordings currently lasts for 50 years. An independent review (the “Gowers review”) commissioned and endorsed by the UK government says it should remain at 50 years. Yet the recording industry continues to demand that this term be extended. But term extension would be an [...]
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Open Rights Group is probably the coolest outfit I’ve ever had the pleasure to be associated with and it does the essential work of help those in power and the media become better informed about our rights in a digital age. We all support them with £5/month. Join us! And for a short while the [...]
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Everyone dissed Beardie for raising the question of the possible role of Sharia processes in the. But now the Lord chief justice agrees (says the Beeb)
Lord Phillips said: “There is no reason why sharia principles, or any other religious code, should not be the basis for mediation or other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
“It must [...]
