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.

As I am trying to get my old photos organized, we will probably be seeing many old photographs appear here at the Big Bad Photoblog. These were taken in 2007, in Amsterdam, where we all had a pretty bad day, but a pretty good time: