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Justice means the letter of the law

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Matt Murdock defends the punisher in the trial of the century – the murder of the Kingpin- while by night Daredevil staves off a war of succession for the throne of the criminal underworld. Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Alex Segura, pens an all-new Marvel Crime thriller novel for adult readers.  When reports come in that the Kingpin and the police officer have been killed and that Frank Castle (aka the Punisher) has turned himself in for it. Matt Murdock senses holes in the narratives the media and the streets are quick to run with. Both criminals have been Matt’s … Continue reading Justice means the letter of the law

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Post Office spent over £132m of taxpayer money defending itself

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The Post Office has spent over £132m of taxpayer money ( £82m in the 12 mon ths to 31st March 2024, £38m the previous 12 months, and £12m in the year prior to that, defending itself at the inquiry into the wrongful conviction of 900 sub-postmasters who were prosecuted wrongly for shortfalls in their accounts caused by bugs in Fujitsu’s Horizon IT system in what has been described as one of the most widespread miscarriages in British legal history. Most sub-postmasters wrongly convicted lost their livelihoods or were forced to make up shortfalls from their own money, while some former sub-postmasters … Continue reading Post Office spent over £132m of taxpayer money defending itself

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Culture no longer weapon against human morality

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Oliver Roy, a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, says “ Our world is flattened as linguistic diversity is replaced by Basic English, expression by emoticons, culture  by identity-markers”. Roy draws on his long experience in both academia and public life, but with provocativeness  and tackles the issue of the culture wars explaining today’s fractures via the extension of individual political and sexual freedoms from the 1960s. For Roy, traditional political protest from class, region or ethnicity, fashioning an identity premised on repudiation rather than inheritance of shared history or values, illuminating, if home is a place that … Continue reading Culture no longer weapon against human morality