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A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

A tale of two tortoises

A tale of two tortoises

Tortoise fitted with 'crash helmet'

Vets have fitted a 'crash helmet' on a giant tortoise to protect him while a hole in his shell grows over.




Speaker Martin is a fencepost tortoise

Some MPs are still able to laugh down at the House of Sighs at Westminster.

News reaches me of the first joke linked to the crisis surrounding the Speaker. In a bid to understand his predicament, Michael Martin is being likened to a "fence post tortoise".

An MP says: "When you're driving along a country road and you come across a fence post with a tortoise balanced on top, that's called a fencepost tortoise.

"You know he didn't get up there by himself, he definitely doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there - and you just have to wonder what kind of idiot put him up there in the first place."


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John Hirst Hull, East Yorkshire, GB "Who is John Hirst?" the Sun online questioned the day after the UK lost its appeal to the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR in the prisoners votes case. The profile was not very informative nor flattering. But, I don't like the Sun either so we are quits. I was born, at 2 I was put into Dr Barnardo's Homes. What they called care, we refer to it as physical and sexual abuse. I drifted into crime, and spent 35 years in prison. In spite of the system, I reformed and rehabilitated myself with the support of some within and outside of the system. I was transformed from a law breaker into a law-maker. I am firmly committed to prisoners rights, and am a campaigner for penal reform. I live in a 3 bedroom terrace house within a cul-de-sac, and have a dog as a companion. My Latvian friend keeps invading my space and telling me I need a wife. She does keep the house clean and tidy, but loves my dog and calls him her boyfriend... Recently, Viking FM have asked for advice and reports for the news on radio on Criminal Justice issues. In addition, I used to write regularly for Inside Time the National newspaper for prisoners.
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