Chris Williams

Chris Williams

  • Commented on Who ordered THAT?!?
    Gosh, lots of comments. Me, a couple of months ago I got so pissed off with the refusal of the UK Govt and HM opposition to take the climate crisis seriously, that I decided to get active with the Greens,...
  • Commented on The cult of justice
    "the Bloody Code was much bloodier than would have been acceptable a few hundred years earlier" - the Code was, but the results weren't. There were lots of capital offences by 1770, but the vast majority of executions were for...
  • Commented on The cult of justice
    Hmm... I'm open to various evo-psy approaches to criminal justice history, and looking out for baselines in behaviour that tend to remain permanent, but I'm not sure about all these theses. The thing is, about 200 years ago, EnglishandWelsh justice...
  • Commented on Catching a Blighty
    OK Greg, ta for the reply. This is why I asked: A couple of weeks ago, as part of my mission to buy as many Gale and Polden books about late C19th military administration as possible, I bought a copy...
  • Commented on Catching a Blighty
    Greg Tingey, we might need to agree to differ about your political take on the war. However, I have a personal message for you, and today is a good day to deliver it. Do you know if you had any...
  • Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
    Dave P, it's clear from (say) the actions of the JAG staff over Guantanamo that many employees of the US government are indeed moral and upstanding people willing to speak truth to power. Trouble is, the black prison network still...
  • Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
    Charlie, if you want to look at a place where the state is not merely deleting things, but also, through payment of fifty-centers on comments threads, actively inserting information, look at the PRC. And yes, traffic analysis of the block...
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