Earlier this week, a mother named Kay Gilderdale was acquitted of the attempted murder of her daughter Lynn in December 2008. Lynn Gilderdale had been bed-bound since the age of 14 with severe ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis). She was paraplegic (earlier on in her illness, she had been functionally quadriplegic, but she remained without feeling or […]
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BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Foyle and West | Greysteel killer back behind bars I’m not sure why this guy was let out at all. He was part of a gang that walked into a bar at Halloween 1993, shouted “trick or treat”, and then started firing, killing eight people. News reported at the […]
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Last week, there was an inquest into the suicide of a young woman, Kerrie Wooltorton, who drank poison and called an ambulance, supposedly because she did not want to die alone. The 26-year-old had been suffering from depression because of infertility, and hours earlier had written a “living will” stating her intentions. The coroner recorded […]
When a slavering press brands kidnap victims such as Jaycee Lee Dugard ‘sex slaves’, it shames them | Hadley Freeman | Comment is free | The Guardian This article attacks the media for the use of lurid but tittilating language such as ‘sex slave’ when referring to victims of kidnapping who have been sexually abused […]
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Jackson friend claims paternity “Mark Lester, a former child star and long-time friend of Michael Jackson, says he could be the father of one of the late pop star’s children”, claims the report. How exactly is someone who “does someone a favour” and then, as soon as he is unable […]
The sister known as Digital Nomad has posted two interesting entries recently, the most recent on this nonsense of condemning mobile phones as a cause of fitna and fornication. This is not just within the Muslim community — Haredi Jews in some places have “kosher” mobile phones which won’t ring certain numbers and can’t sent […]
BBC News: Families win birth defect battle This is about a group of families who sued the local council in Corby, an old steel town in the east Midlands, for birth defects caused by the toxic chemicals which were spread around the place while the steelworks were being dismantled in the 1980s. They have an […]
Since so many other Muslims seem to be blogging about Michael Jackson’s death, I thought I might as well, as the papers have been full of coverage, with the Guardian and then the Observer both running “special editions” (the Observer is owned by the Guardian, and their articles all appear on the guardian.co.uk website). I […]
PR and prejudice: why rape story erred (from the Guardian) Ben Goldacre writes a regular column, Bad Science, which is often dedicated to debunking stupid newspaper stories based on distortions of statistics and science. Today, he went for a story in the Telegraph which reported that “scientists” had claimed that women who drink alcohol are […]
I agree with Jack Straw’s decision not to let Ronnie Biggs go free. He has served, in total, a third of his sentence, and the parole board, despite recommending his release (on the grounds that he is so physically frail that he is no longer a threat to anyone), have reported that he has no […]
Just as one man’s freedom fighter is another’s terrorist, one man’s cute, fluffy endangered species is another’s vermin. Last week Prince Charles called for an eradication drive against the evil grey squirrel, an “invasive” species imported from North America which has driven the native red squirrel out of virtually all of England. This debate has […]
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BBC NEWS | England | London | Abu Hamza’s car scam sons jailed Two sons and a stepson of the hate preacher Abu Hamza (real name Mustafa Kamel), who occupied Finsbury Park mosque with a bunch of his hoodlums until he became an embarrassment to the Blair government in 2003 and was arrested on the […]
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One of the legacies of the child abuse witch hunt culture of the 1990s and early 2000s, which saw at least three innocent women sent to prison for “murdering” babies who in fact died in cot deaths, is cases like that of the Websters of Norfolk, whose three children were seized from them after doctors accused them of causing fractures to one of them deliberately, and adopted.
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