The lunatics are running the asylum

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Welcome to Blair's utopian society.

[John Galt]

Head...wall...bring together rapidly in quick succession

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The doctor who nearly got arrested for trying to recover his stolen property

After police showed little interest in investigating a burglary at his home, Dr Otto Chan decided to take action himself to retrieve the stolen property.

He pinned up posters around his neighbourhood offering a reward for anyone who returned the computers, Christmas presents and priceless family photographs.

So the 50-year-old radiologist was astonished when officers threatened to arrest him - for attempting to buy stolen goods.

Police blasted on 'chase' policy

A mother has hit out at police who refused to go after thieves who stole her sons' motorbikes - because the pair were not wearing helmets.
Pauline Nolan, from Droylsden, Greater Manchester, said officers told her they could not pursue the offenders in case they fell off and sued them.

Mrs Nolan, 44, said: "It's outrageous, I couldn't believe what I was hearing."

Greater Manchester Police said officers needed to consider the safety of all road users before deciding to pursue. In this case, the decision was made it would not have been safe to pursue the bikes.

Mrs Nolan was driving home when she spotted two teenagers driving past her on her sons' motocross bikes. She contacted police, who told her they had also spotted the bikes but were not allowed to go after them. "He said if there was an accident and they were injured then the thieves would sue the police," said Mrs Nolan.

Viral e-mails taught in college

Viral e-mails - those clever or annoying pictures or video clips that spread around offices - are going to become part of college courses.
The creative skills in designing these subversive images are to be taught to art and design students.

The initiative is from Channel 4 and a website hosting a competition to find the best viral e-mails.

Rather than an "illicit diversion" viral e-mails should be seen as legitimate art, say the organisers.

Reid sentencing row

...It comes after two judges released sex offenders, saying they were following Mr Reid's advice.

The home secretary has been under fire on prison overcrowding after he wrote to judges and magistrates asking them to imprison only the most dangerous of offenders.