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London Police Seek To Install CCTV In Pubs
JCWDenton writes "The Met Police got a short sharp rap over the knuckles yesterday, as the Office of the Information Commissioner questioned what looks very much like a blanket
policy to force CCTV onto public houses in certain parts of London. The story begins with a letter to the Guardian last week, from Nick Gibson. He is currently renovating Islington pub The Drapers Arms, after its previous owners allowed it to go insolvent and then disappeared. In his letter, he argues that if he had merely taken over an existing licence, the police could not have imposed any additional conditions. However, because this was now a new licence, the police were able to make specific requests, including one particular request in respect of installing CCTV."
Not to mention the fact that The Register has really gone downhill over the years, to the point where pretty much every article they publish now is either absurd sensationalist nonsense, or else pandering to the whims of their readership. It really is just unreadable tripe.
The turning point for me was several years ago, when they published an "article" that was literally just an incoherent, ranting, non-journalistic diatribe accusing someone's blog post of not being journalism. I mean, besides the obvious "no shit, sherlock" factor, and the fact that the blog in question never even claimed to be journalism... I was literally boggling at how not only had someone actually bothered to write such an unreadable rant, but his buddies had actually let him publish it on what they like to call a news website. I mean, they even disabled comments on that story, so they obviously knew it was unpublishable crap.
Santa's suicide mission go!
I don't just blame cannabis - I'd just like to travel on the bus without the stink of cigarettes and weed and the tinny noise of crappy music bugging me. Not exactly a huge ask is it? But the chip on your shoulder about cannabis must give you real back problems.
P.S. Don't even think about comparing me to Daily Mail readers unless you want to say it to my face and get a smack. Hating selfish wankers is not an exclusive perogative of those arseholes ta very much.
Making a pro-American astute observation = flamebait