Sunday Times journalists posed as lobbyists. What then happened will eventually reach a court somewhere or other.

Unfortunately, we only have the newspapers to rely on, but the trial seemed to me one of a series in which the charges were an exaggeration of the evidence. But I suspect there’s going to be a retrial, because no government agency is going to be able to accept that the ban on liquids etc … “ASTONISHMENT” AT TERROR VERDICTS

UNODC Report that synthetic drugs like ecstasy and amphetamines on the rise in East and South East Asia and the Middle East. Full text at: http://www.unodc.org/documents/scientific/ATS/Global-ATS-Assessment-2008-Web.pdf

God help us! “Language scientists”! Another gravy train arriving too late for me! Havent they heard of predictive texts?

Oh and the cost of getting a court ruling? $35,000. How utterly depressing. Report on business in Russia by the National anti-Corruption Committee and the Phoenix Group with Transparency International. OK, OK. I’ll find the URL for you! Just back from the Symposium on Organised and Economic Crime at Jesus College Cambridge. Recovering!

Piracy seems to be spreading. Are we insured?

No it doesn’t. The Commission does. This too will one day reach the Court. Fingerprinting on purely ethnic grounds a highly dangerous precedent. Is it criminal to be a member of an ethnic group? Next, as Pastor Niemoller said, it will be a religious group, then an ideological group, and finally…You! [Unless you protest] O … EU GIVES BLESSING FOR ITALY’S ROMA FINGERPRINT SCHEME

Recommended charges, according to the BBC are: bribery, fraud, money laundering and breach of public trust. There go the peace talks!

£3.5 Billion pounds lost and less than 1 in 20 report it. Royal Mail refuses to act. Claims it has a legal obligation to deliver all mail…what? Is there no offence of abuse of the postal system? Is it the US that has that?Could it be time to start a campaign here?

Decision to freeze al Barakat assets overturned. You cant freeze assets without telling people why, the Court holds. Seems reasonable.