As those of you who follow sports are, undoubtedly, already aware, the professional sports landscape looks to be decimated come the fall due to labour disputes between athletes and team owners.

The Big Bad Blog would like to endorse Seth Godin’s resolution mechanism for these disputes:

The solution: While the lockout/strike/dispute is going on, keep playing. And put all the profit/pay in an escrow account. Week after week, the billions and billions of dollars pile up. The owners see it, the players see it, no one gets it until there’s a deal.

Brilliant, yes?

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Before we begin, you may be wondering what the English need to do in order to finally win the world cup. The answer is simple: buy more cats.

The European Court of Human Rights have held up a prior decision which found the stop and search powers granted under the Terrorist Act to be illegal.

Finally, the government in the UK is accepting nominations for laws to repeal in order to “restore civil liberties”. You can throw your support behind the repeal of the Digital Economy bill here.