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Rileyy_69 then tried to use freedom of speech to defend himself, not realising that the right to freedom of speech and expression is actually a qualified right, meaning the Government can interfere with it where necessary. For example, the Twitter user is now liable to prosecution for harassing Daley, and for threatening to drown him.
— This is a good explainer for how harassment laws allowed police to arrest Twitter user @Rileyy_69 for the hateful tweets he sent to UK diver Tom Daley. (ht @AntDeRosa) -
With the 2012 Summer Olympic Games now just days away, many Londoners are feeling anxiety and regret. A recent poll found that half the city’s residents are not interested in the Olympics at all, and 42 percent think the city should never have bid for them.
“It’s a major disaster,” said documentary filmmaker Iain Sinclair. “You don’t need this vast, top-down structure spending billions of pounds to obliterate a landscape.”
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Not everybody was in the mood to honor her Majesty. Several hundred anti-monarchists and members of the campaign group Republic gathered outside City Hall protesting the role of the monarchy in modern-day Britain during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. More photos from the four-day event
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More than a million people braved soggy weather Sunday, lining London’s Thames River to glimpse the slight Sovereign as she floated by on her gilded barge during a parade of boats, and the rain couldn’t dampen a historic day.
Here’s a look at Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee in pictures
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Fail. (Look closely.)
A teacup celebrating next month’s royal nuptials features a very conspicuous — and possibly intentional — mistake. The unofficial souvenir features beaming photographs of Kate Middleton and her husband-to-be, along with flowery adornment. The problem? The man in the picture is not Kate’s fiancé, Prince William, but his red-headed brother, Prince Harry.
The cup reads, “The fairytale romantic union of all the centuries. 29th April 2011.” It can be yours for about $16.
