The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, will announce plans today that give police the power to openly harass antisocial youth by hounding them at their homes, following them about, and also arbitrarily filming them in the streets. It certainly sounds a little bit drastic, but is part of the government's plans… read more…

Sometimes when engaging in her morning Google Reader ritual, Westmonster stumbles across an article so predictable, she is left to moan "I could have written that myself!" We don't mean the weekly "ohmigod, like, this Facebook thingy is, like, sooooooo spaced out!" offerings by the generic Fruity Blonde One in the… read more…