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The weekend was stellar. I´ll probably drone on about it later. First, though, a couple of interesting news items - at the end of this year Britain will finally finish paying off our war loans from the US, and the High Court has said that the Chagos islanders can go home. Result! (Or, at least, Result! pending the inevitable appeal). Oh, and HMG´s finally calling for the Guantanamo camp to be closed. Not going to happen, but nice to hear it said.

While I´m here, does anyone know how to turn off dead keys (the method of mapping extra characters to a standard keyboard rather than any other use of the phrase) under debian (etch, gnome)? I be grateful. It´s annoying me.

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I'm bloody appalled that the govt introduced a new order in 2000. It was a crass and evil act in the 60s when we had different standards for such things. Nowadays... what on earth is motivating them? I wonder on the terms of "the agreement between the UK and the US under which each side has a veto on who should live in the whole Chagos archipelago." (from the BBC coverage)

Have a look at the full judgement. Crass and evil have not gone away, which is quite incredible given Cook's acceptance of the verdict in the main case.

I know the solicitor, who's been fighting this for years.