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Two High Court judges ruled that people regarded their hair as their “crowning glory” and could be “intrinsic” to their identity.

My understanding from the brief spot on PM is that this sets a precedent, your hair is now part of your person legally, and anyone who cuts it off without your consent is guilty of an assault, right?

Bloody right too. Number of people that “joke” about cutting my hair off, really gets to me, my choice to wear my hair long is a source of humour, a woman’s choice to wear it short goes unmentioned. Why? Nice to see that my (mostly) neatly kept hair is now actually considered part of me and the law will now recognise it.

Serious issue? No, but if I can tell people to piss off when they effectively propose ABH and cite this case, then I’m happy.

Off out now, not that anyone cares, but light blogging this evening from me.

The Legislative and Regulatory Bill is scaring a lot of people online, it’s one of the tipping point moments. BBC News has finally covered it:

For the Tories Ken Clarke said it could “sweep away parliamentary procedure and debate on an astonishing scale”.

But minister Jim Murphy insisted the bill would have safeguards built in.

And from an anonymous comment, I’m pointed at Rob Knight’s post from Sunday, which I must’ve missed when I was there yesterday. Go read. If nothing else, EU-Serf’s comment there about the need for cross-party opposition to this is something I wholeheartedly endorse.

Interesting…:

“Switzerland is not EU member but it has close relations with the union,” the Swiss minister said. “We have decided to make a contribution to level economic and social differences between the new and the old EU states and to allocate 1 billion Swiss francs for the purpose,” she added.

A non EU state thinks it’s a good idea to give money to Eastern reconstruction and catch up? Works with the EU Commission to set up a special fund? I have no idea what to make of this one.

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Joys of being a proper journalist; people paid him to go report on these. Paul Linford: My Top 10 Political Speeches:

Following the success of my top 10 political books - well, four comments are better than none! - here’s my list of the ten best political speeches I have heard during my lifetime.

Lucky git. Have to agree with him on some of them, especially his first choice. Kinnock’s blistering attack on Militant gets played every so often, whenever I hear it I stop to listen, and I’m not in any involved, I was a kid at the time. Go read.