Getting others’ hands dirty
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...
Category: News
Media shame over Dugard frenzy
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...
With friends like this …
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...
Digital Niqabi on fitna and niqab
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...
Why illegal dumping is no joke
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 obligatory Jackson post
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...
Alcohol and rape story was distorted
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....
Let Biggs rot
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...
Rose-tinted, fluffy-rimmed spectacles, anyone?
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"...
Hatemonger Abu Hamza’s sons are crooks
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...
Contract doctor gave fatal overdose
Guardian: Exhausted relief doctor gave patient fatal dose This is about how a doctor working for an NHS contractor gave a 70-year-old patient a fatal overdose of diamorphine (heroin), apparently due to lacking concentration...
Legal lottery?
Today a man was jailed for four years for the manslaughter of a man his partner accused of jumping a queue in a Sainsbury’s supermarket near Wimbledon, south London. The woman called up Tony...
Target culture and the low rape conviction rate
Technorati Tags: kirk reid Last Thursday, for the second time in a month, a man was jailed for a series of sexual assaults, including rapes, on women in south London, and among the major...
The adoption abuse scandal
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.
If only … I weren’t such a vicious thug
Last night and the night before, there were discussions about knife crime on the BBC London station, based around a BBC Panorama programme in which Raphael Rowe, a BBC reporter who had been in...
End of the long party
Now that it’s the evening of New Year’s Day, and the holiday season will be over in a few hours (even if it’s still the school holidays and a few people will be taking...
Has Jackson converted? (Do we care?)
The other day a British tabloid, the Sun, reported that Michael Jackson (you know, the guy that had a few hits in the 1970s and early 1980s but is now best known for his...
Why Starbucks is going down, credit crunch or no credit crunch
In the Evening Standard yesterday, we were told that tens of thousands of jobs were likely to be lost in the UK in the very near future, the biggest single number of which were...
Blaming knives for stabbings
This year, sixteen teenagers have been murdered in London, on top of however many dozen victims there were in 2006. Not surprisingly, this has caused a panic over the carrying of knives in public,...
Round-up: drinks on the Tube, Blair uniting religions, Mary Whitehouse, high fuel costs
As you can see, I have not blogged much this week, mainly out of being tired after getting up in the morning to do various driving jobs. However, it's Sunday and I'm well and...