Now on ScienceBlogs: It's supposed to hurt to think about it!
Tim Lambert's weblog
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: UK
I wrote earlier about the pernicious and dishonest campaign by the London Daily Telegraph to scare people into thinking that self-defence against burglars was unlawful. To correct this misinformation the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a statement detailing what...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:14 PM • 30 Comments •
Category: UK
The latest crime figures in the UK are out and show that crime has continued to fall, reaching a record low: The risk of being a victim of crime, at 25 per cent, is the lowest recorded by the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:08 AM • 65 Comments •
Category: UK
The London Daily Telegraph has been running a cynical and dishonest campaign in the UK to give people the right to defend themselves against burglars. It's dishonest because, as I have detailed here and here, people in the UK...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:39 PM • 133 Comments •
Category: UK
Earlier, I wrote how Joyce Lee Malcolm had doctored a quote from the Textbook of Criminal Law to make it appear that self-defence was illegal in Britain. She wrote: Now everything turns on what seems to be "reasonable" force...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:44 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: UK
60 Minutes (the Australian version) has done a story on the use of deadly force in self-defence. Unfortunately it sufers from the same problem that many of these stories do. Tony Martin (who was convicted of murdering a burglar)...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:56 AM • 25 Comments •
Category: UK
John Ray left a rather odd comment to my post about the continuing decrease in violent crime in England. He stated that police figures for gun crimes will be more accurate than survey figures. His statement is probably true...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:45 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: UK
The latest crime statistics for England and Wales have been released. Sharon Howard has a good round-up of reactions to the statistics: What's happening here is that the British Crime Survey is suddenly being discounted by Tory politicians because...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:43 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: UK
I've been having a discussion with Kevin Baker about his claim that self-defence in the UK is practically illegal. The discussion started when Carl Lindsay was convicted of manslaughter after killing an intruder who was trying to rob him....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:17 AM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: UK
Back in March I wrote about the way pro-gun bloggers leapt to the conclusion that self-defence in the UK was illegal, based on story about a man who defended himself against some robbers with a sword, killed one and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:23 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: UK
Kevin Baker was one of the bloggers who posted on the story about Lindsay's sword killing, claiming that it showed that for all intents and purposes self-defence in the UK was illegal. Despite learning that Lindsay had chased the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:41 PM • 23 Comments •
