No I'm Not Dead.

I do have to go to the supermarket though because well the trip directly after the end of the para-Olympics was not exactly 100% successful.

Annoyingly this trip looks like it will co-incide perfectly with US President Barack Obama's address to the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Fortunately though coming so soon after the Olympics and just before the US Presidential election this UNGA looks like it's going to be a routine affair. Of course there will be some pushing and shoving over Iran's nuclear program but then there always is. The issue of Syria will no doubt come up but with the UNGA having already been convened for a special session to discuss just that issue I think it's fair to assume that things have gone as far as they're going to go for now. So in an usual departure for the UNGA it looks like the main item on the agenda is going to be the main item stated on the agenda - The rule of law at national and international levels. Obviously this covers the way that national governments uphold the rule of law within their own countries but also includes international courts like the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the World Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). The work of these courts includes all international treaties such as the Geneva Conventions, the International Bill of Human Rights, the Nuremberg codes and the Rome Statute. It also touches on specific ongoing cases such as Saif al-Islam Qaddafi in Libya, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and me and my antics.

In the opening salvos the ECHR has decided that it wants to keep out of it by yesterday (24/9/12) allowing five Muslim terror suspects (Abu Hamza, Babar Ahmad, Syed Talha Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Kahled al-Fawwaz) to be extradited from Britain to the USA. As the five's application to the ECHR centred on a somewhat silly claim that being held in a US federal supermax prison amounted to torture the courts rejection of the application can be viewed as a pro-US move although not a full endorsement of the US prison system. Britain has responded to the ECHR by raising the question of whether the Queen discussed the Abu Hamza case with the Home Secretary. The idea here is to assess whether the UNGA thinks that the Queen could be indited by the ICC over my grandmother's case having met the conditions of the "Knew or Should Have Known" test in the Rome statute even though I have yet to officially pass the case file to her. I would say that the test has been met because even if the Queen were to argue that she's one of the few people in British politics who isn't aware of me there has been direct correspondence between my grandmother and Clarence House over the Royal Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Mind you it must be said even I'm struggling to find reasons to be stressed about that at the moment because it's not yet a pressing problem.

Also Britain and France are currently working very closely together to find Megan Stammers a 15 year old schoolgirl from Eastbourne (right next to Brighton) who appears to have run off with her 30 year old maths teacher Jeremy Forrest to France where it lawful for a 30 year old man to have sexual relations with a 15 year old girl. As this all started almost exactly as I started writing up the proper version of my para-Olympic closing ceremony opus do I really need to explain what this has all been set up to allow for a coded discussion between Britain or France about or what I most certainly won't be doing until the couple's been returned home safely.

12:20 on 25/9/12.