Israeli PM "should be indicted"

Recommended charges, according to the BBC are: bribery, fraud, money laundering and breach of public trust. There go the peace talks!

Mail and Phone Scams Catch out 3 Million

£3.5 Billion pounds lost and less than 1 in 20 report it. Royal Mail refuses to act. Claims it has a legal obligation to deliver all mail...what? Is there no offence of abuse of the postal system? Is it the US that has that?
Could it be time to start a campaign here?

EU gives blessing for Italy's Roma Fingerprint Scheme

No it doesn't. The Commission does. This too will one day reach the Court. Fingerprinting on purely ethnic grounds a highly dangerous precedent. Is it criminal to be a member of an ethnic group? Next, as Pastor Niemoller said, it will be a religious group, then an ideological group, and finally...You! [Unless you protest]
O tempora! O mores!

EU Terror Blacklist Suffers Judicial Blow

Decision to freeze al Barakat assets overturned. You cant freeze assets without telling people why, the Court holds. Seems reasonable.

3 ships evade Pirate Attack off Somalia

Piracy seems to be spreading. Are we insured?

Police Identify Criminals from Texts

God help us! "Language scientists"! Another gravy train arriving too late for me! Havent they heard of predictive texts?

Bribe to illegally seize a firm put at $30,000

Oh and the cost of getting a court ruling? $35,000. How utterly depressing. Report on business in Russia by the National anti-Corruption Committee and the Phoenix Group with Transparency International. OK, OK. I'll find the URL for you! Just back from the Symposium on Organised and Economic Crime at Jesus College Cambridge. Recovering!

How the terror cells link up

Cute little interactive Venn diagram on the links between the al Qaeda operatives in britain have emerged from the court cases that have already happened. Not sure whether all these cases have finished, so some of this material needs to be treated as "alleged" al Qaeda operatives....How many are actually "self-professed"? Cave journalism...but I wish i could create these myself!

How books changed mafia Man's Life

review of Louis Ferrante's book on his life in the Mafia. "I was 17 years old. I liked girls. I liked to drive fast cars. I liked hamburgers and French fries.

"And I'd just realised that I liked to hijack trucks".

Italy's Dead Man Walking

Roberto Saviano, his book on the Camorra and his consequent death sentence fom the gang.