Entries from Londonist tagged with 'punishment'
July 6, 2008
This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 51. Natural Selection and Altruism on The Tube – Part 2: Tube Prisoners Dilemma A couple of weeks ago I spoke of 'Tube Utopia', the story of Tube-Dove's and Tube-Hawks on the London Underground. The story borrows shamelessly from natural selection and things like that, and as such it tries to demonstrate three things: 1.......
Continue Reading "The Nice Movement"November 5, 2007
In most senses Londonist is a rather nice blog entity. Liberal, firm where we need to be, objective, a bit goofy at times. But on the issue of ’happy slapping’ we find it hard to suggest anything particularly constructive. Therapy? Social reform? It’s all just so much piffle and tosh. The stocks would be a far better answer. This unfathomable and moronic crime has made the news today as three Croydon youngsters are sentenced for......
Continue Reading "Bring back the stocks 2"