Luckily for now it's only in one newspaper, but the story is that some of the victims' families are doing what is only to be expected and calling for Steve Wright to be murdered by the state. I don't begrudge the families of murdered people the freedom to lose all sense of proportion and reason but I do wish that people wouldn't buy in to it so much.

I still will never understand, however, the hypocrisy of individuals that will watch a man be convicted of choosing to kill people without remorse, and then ask the state to do this to that man for them by proxy. Quite aside from insisting that "Government look at returning the death penalty", we should be insisting that any kind of lapse on the part of individuals to revert to more primal tendencies should be discouraged and not glorified, lest they give more people like Steve Wright the idea that they somehow have the right to do with another what they deem to be right.

I am fairly certain I've mentioned this before but thankfully the news has FINALLY picked up on this bullshit policy change by First Bristol that has hidden motives written all over it. This change is that when bus drivers don't have enough money on them to give you the change you are due, they can give you change tickets as they always have done, but now you can only redeem those at a travel store that are located in only two places in the City of Bristol.

Paying for BBC programming twice. It's an interesting subject, and I've commented on another blog that this issue rises because of an ambiguity of what is actually being sold by the BBC, in this case through iTunes. With DVDs and videos before them you were buying the material to own because you loved the series or the show and wanted to own it with all the special features and comedy offcuts. The iTunes plan blurs the world between iPlayer where people are supposed to be able to watch again for free and that same ownership. I can watch something for 7 days but on the 8th I have to buy it to catch up. It's essentially that segment of the population that might hear about something too late to catch it on iPlayer but doesn't plan on waiting for the DVD to see if it's any good and worth watching as it runs on the TV.

I personally think the BBC is perfectly within its rights to sell its content as it always has done, and as long as it's clear about the permanency of such sales, as if they were DVDs for example, then people have little to complain about that practice.