Category: News

I write this on the eve of the day on which we Londoners find out whether we are to be saddled with a bill which will take generations to pay off, or to sit...

First of all, this whole smoking thing. There’s been yet more talk of having a ban on smoking in public places, and usual some people are up in arms about it. I say go...

Having finally got some sleep after three long days at work, I decided to get round to posting a full blog entry. It’s going to be more of a round-up rather than one long...

So, Michael Jackson’s been acquitted. Looks like he’s going to hold a press conference and then go back to his bizarre lifestyle at Neverland. It seems the jury have been persuaded that Jackson, though...

The Guardian today has a feature in its supplement about a mother who was shot dead by her estranged husband, who also murdered their son. The victim had told a number of people that...

Since nobody in the blogosphere has got round to panning this stupid “road pricing” scheme all the papers are talking about today, I thought I would start the discussion. Alistair Darling, the British government...

The Daily Telegraph reports today that the elderly and vulnerable have been used as human guinea pigs in certain Israeli hospitals without the relevant permissions: Some children had their eardrums deliberately pierced so that...

There’s an opinion piece in today’s Sunday Telegraph about how police officers in Ashford, Kent, dealt with an incident in which a man drove into the back of a car with a mother and...

So, they’ve finally chosen a new guy to be Pope – the 78-year-old Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was for more than 20 years the head of the “congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith”,...

So it appears that the receivers have been called in on the Rover car company, after it stopped production yesterday due to a “component shortage”. This time the reason is that negotiations with a...

A few months back you may have heard of that man from Venezuela with an unusual Muslim name who was arrested in the UK after getting off a plane from Caracas with a hand...

I couldn’t resist posting a screenshot of the Times’ website, which has a news story which nobody else seems to have reported on: a Pope “nearing death” in Britain. I wonder which Pope that...

There’s a piece here at the BBC’s website about how the US’s (and especially Irish Americans’) love affair with Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein (the Irish political party associated with the IRA) is supposedly...

There’s a piece in today’s Guardian, Are you a man or a mouse?, about some scientists at Stanford University who have been attempting to cross human beings with … mice. They do this by...

The Croydon Advertiser today reported that, when all the Manchester United fans came to my old home town to see their team play Crystal Palace, they did so on the 10th anniversary of the...

Further to the recent couple of articles on special schools, my letter was printed in this morning’s Telegraph: We must get a grip on special school closures They’ve edited out bits of it, though....

The Sun, a low-class tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, today led with the story that Abu Hamza, the preacher on remand for incitement to murder and also wanted for extradition to the USA on...

The Times reported the other day that the number of reported rapes in England and Wales has gone up by a substantial amount (though the only statistic they quoted was for 2002, with around...

Anyone who’s been reading the news over here the last few days will have heard that a schism is looming over the international Anglican church over the American church’s decision to ordain openly gay...

A few months ago there was a controversy among the Muslim bloggers, in which some members of the community found fault with the “open comment” aspect due to the fact that both men and...