Ah Yes I Should've Mentioned.

part of my grandmother regaining her facilities is her remembering that my father, like all his British Intelligence colleagues, is a pathetic, worthless waste of skin. Obviously this occasionally leads to a little bit of confrontation as we have seen today. However with a few gory details and the occasional technical term the issue was soon resolved.

While I was doing that activists associated with the Climate Camp have been trying to shut down the Ratcliffe of Soar power station. While this action is still on going I can report that they have been totally successful in their operation because E-On, the station operators shut down the plant in preparation of the action. Contrary to the police's scaremongering ahead of the protest this did not lead to national power grid collapsing nor did a single light in the area served by the power station go out because that's not how the national grid works. During clashes with the police one of the protesters suffered a heart attack but after the police had delayed him receiving medical attention for three hours he made a full recovery. One police officer also had to be airlifted to hospital with head injuries although the fact he was released after a couple of hours suggests those head injuries were not serious and the police were being a little melodramatic. No details of how the officer was injured have been released but it has been suggested that he was trying to hit a protester with his baton so hard that it recoiled and he ended up punching himself in the face.

Also Carter-Ruck have now fully dropped their injunction against the publication of the report into Trafigura's involvement into the dumping of toxic waste so all in all it's been rather a good day.