Category Archives: Citizenship

Can you be sued for gritting pavements if someone hurts themselves? Ask the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers

So you decide to do the community-spirited thing and help to clear ice and snow from your public street. Then someone slips over and hurts themselves. Can you be sued?

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Why I’m throwing down the gauntlet to our councils over RSS feeds

You’re free to republish this article under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK licence with credit and a link to Adrian Short / Mash the State Today I connected 66 councils to their citizens by making it easy to subscribe … Continue reading

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Did police kill G20 protester in London? (Updated: not looking good)

Article title preserved for posterity but it’s clear now that Ian Tomlinson was not a protester and was just walking home from work. Please see the updates in the comments at the bottom of this post. Unnamed: The protester who … Continue reading

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The real problem with “Your High”

Wallington MP Tom Brake wants to outlaw “head shops”. What’s he been smoking? Continue reading

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Sutton’s (oxy)moronic “voluntary smoking ban”

Sutton Council have banned smoking in children’s playgrounds. Or have they? Continue reading

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Positive citizens or trainee consumers?

Sutton youths are being given discount cards for high street shops if they stay out of trouble. What does this really teach them? Continue reading

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