2006 June archive | dreamfish

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:34:12

| Tuesday 13th June 2006 11:34MDT | → 0 Comments |

Kind of a short day - came back from work at 11am feeling distinctly not well. Possibly food poisoning or just a bug going around. As Pepys would say, ‘… and so to bed.’

More rotton times at work - thankfully summer has finally arrived proper and we’re getting 20C+ days. Unfortunately, my webcam has stopped working so you can’t see this - I suspect a Fedora Core 5 update did for the driver.

Excellent article in the Guardian on the misplaced attack on human rights: This dialogue of the deaf is corroding our human rights. The conclusion says it all:

None of these, though, justifies the number of cheap shots that ministers now take at human rights, the law, and judges. In a democracy, the rule of law matters more than anything, and the human rights of individuals and minorities are at the heart of that rule of law. The Human Rights Act does not stand in the way of modern democratic government. In many respects it makes modern democratic government possible. It explicitly defends both the right to security and the right to civil liberty. Both matter, though not at the total expense of the other. Most people understand this. The real madness is not human rights but the attack on human rights.