It's been the golden jubilee weekend, and I've been a little busy recently, so I'm doing two weeks in one.

The Dutch parliament has unanimously voted against ACTA, saying further that \"no similar agreement will ever be signed by the government\". This a great step in preserving our internet freedom. Europe is the last area to vote on ACTA and with the Dutch voting against it this may give the impetus to other governments to do the same thus essentially forcing the European parliament to do likewise.

Norway has voted to become a secular nation, removing the Lutheran Church as the state religion. As an atheist I applaud this move. Though there's another side to the story. I come from the U.K., and though the movement of political correctness, the Chruch of England has to be seen to be respectful and tolerant. Essentially stopping it from doing anything that could damage the nation. Whereas you look at America, where freedom of religion absolutely separates church and state, that's big business. Chuches over there are huge with their own tv channels and radio stations. It forces its way into the public conciousness.

Julian Assange has lost his extradition case. This isn't his sexual assault case. He's lost his appeal to the British Supreme Court against extradition to Sweden. He can still appeal the decision with the European Court of Human Rights. Though we now have a fourteen day wait whilst Dinah Rose QC decides to appeal directly to the British Supreme Court on the grounds that the main basis of the Court's decision wasn't argued. The basis being the Vienna Convention.

We recently had the Diamond Jubilee here in the U.K. celebrating 60 years of the Queen's reign. Big celebrations were had. A group of long-term unemployed people were bussed into London to work unpaid as stewards. They were told to sleep under London Bridge before working the river pageant. These people were part of a trial for unpaid work at the Olympics. Let's hope the Olympics aren't as callous in their treatment of staff, unpaid or otherwise.

Former Egyptian politician Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison. Whilst this may seem a good thing at first, and at face value it really is, there have been still been protests by the Egyptian people. The problem is Mubarak didn't act alone. He had help from people like Jamal & Alaa Mubarak are found innocent. Clearly this is making the Egyptians unhappy and brings in to question the idea of Egypt having a true democracy.

The Vatican is facing another scandal, oh what a surprise! A butler of the Pope has been arrested for having classified documents he shouldn't have had. The rhetoric coming out of the Vatican is quite amusing really, they keep claiming the butler betrayed them. One even comparing it the betrayal of Jesus 2,000 years ago! Never mind the documents point to crimes being committed by the Vatican themselves. So why is the butler the one in jail?