I didn’t realise what I was taking on when I volunteered for the Carnival of Modern Liberty. The posts have been coming in all week like bills from British Gas, and the doormat is completely buried.

So, here we go with the Wardman Wire version, in a slightly less animated style than Jennie last week.

Via the BBC:

Peter Smyth, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, backed a call by Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell to introduce a formal code to clarify the position of both the police and photographers.

“Its aim should be to facilitate photography wherever possible, rather than seek reasons to bar it,” he said.

“Police and photographers share the streets and the Met Federation earnestly wants to see them doing so harmoniously.

“As things stand, there is a real risk of photographers being hampered in carrying out their legitimate work and of police officers facing opprobrium for carrying out what they genuinely, if mistakenly, believe are duties imposed on them by the law.”

Of equal interest is a comment on Devils Kitchen yesterday:

Speaking as a serving officer, I would have thought that we would have been fully jemmed up on this law, seeing how it is (apparently) for our safety. Yet neither I, nor any of my colleagues know anything about it. I wasn’t actually aware that I was in so much personal danger that this jaw-droppingly draconian law was needed. Am grateful for those in the blogosphere bringing it to my attention because I would have know sod-all about it otherwise.

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Here we go again. Why do these people always think that they can shut down a debate on the internet by complaining to an ISP …

The Oxford Union has voted 2-1 to invite the BNP leader Nick Griffin and Holocaust denier “historian” David Irving speak in a debate. My reaction …

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