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Kimmage is one of the few cycling journalists still asking the difficult questions about doping. And still angry about it. You read should read this series of articles if you're interested in the Tour de France.
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Comments on latest version of London tube map.
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Comments on latest version of London tube map.
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Comments on latest version of London tube map. (Self-deliciousing, I feel shame.)
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Policing policy strongly linked to sentencing policy this week.
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Expect to see: increased investment in prisons and offender management across the board and/or early releases and sentences to be cut for petty offenders.
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"When you consider that all eight defendants would have a barrister, a junior and an instructing solicitor, plus all the papers and exhibits, to imagine they could squeeze into the space they've been given is just nuts."
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"former head of the Prison Service launched a withering attack yesterday [...] accusing the government of lacking 'the guts' to admit that thousands of imprisoned children, mentally ill people and petty offenders did not belong behind bars"
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Conditions getting better, still much work to do. Many believe that rolling HMP Inspectorate into a large CJ watchdog will reduce its effectiveness.
Rod, thanks for the links to Paul Kimmage. A welcome change from the Guardian's anodyne coverage. Are you finding the Tour anywhere on TV in the UK this year? I was spoiled last year, living in France, got used to watching the last hour live every day...
Posted by: David W | July 18, 2006 at 08:32 AM
Oh don't ask! It seems to be occasionally on ITV at the weekends. I've seen a couple of stages (or highlights) on Eurosport, but have mostly given up trying to see it regularly on tv and am slightly pathetically following it on the internet.
They guys might know
http://www.tdfblog.com/television/index.html
Posted by: rodcorp | July 18, 2006 at 10:59 PM