Rat lovers demonstrate: terror works
The BBC has reported that a family which has been running a farm breeding guinea pigs for medical research has decided to cease its operations after a campaign of intimidation by animal rights freaks....
Category: Politics
Flaming the Left
Crooked Timber has published a poem about the often-repeated insults right-wing columnists and bloggers throw at liberals. I have to say, I was thinking of the likes of Geras, Cohen, Harry and co when...
The proposed destruction of British democracy
On Friday Tony Blair held a press conference in which he announced a clampdown on people with extreme opinions in response to last month’s terrorist attacks in London. He intends to prohibit the glorification...
Good riddance
Founder of the National Front and later head of the British National Party, Nazi scumbag and inciter of racial hatred, John Tyndall, has snuffed it at the age of 71 at his home in...
The anti-leftist leftists on “travel snobs”
I just had another look at the notorious Harry’s Place after at least a week of not having much computer time and there having been not too many political issues to write about (except...
Lots more reasons not to bring in ID cards
I haven’t blogged since the 25th – that’s probably the longest I’ve been for a while without a single entry. The reason is, quite simply, long working hours. I just have not had the...
Reaction to Galloway’s election
As expected, the blogosphere is up in arms about George Galloway’s winning the Bethnal Green & Bow seat. I’ve made it clear in the past that I don’t think he’s a good MP or...
Election thoughts
It’s been a hectic couple of days; I voted on the way to a job which came up late; another job came up for today in the middle of that job which itself finished...
Fraud watch
There’s a whole load of new reports about possible election fraud: In Bethnal Green and Bow, the Guardian reports that dozens of electors are registered at properties in Brick Lane which are in fact...
“Muslim for Labour” distances himself
Brother Atif Imtiaz at Bradford Muslim reported a few days ago that one of the elders in Birmingham whose name appeared at the bottom of a letter in the Guardian on 12th April telling...
Student wears ‘burka’ for a semester
I found a report on website of the Eastern Echo, the student magazine for Eastern Michigan University, about a female student who wore a “burka” for a semester as a kind of academic project....
Al-Muhajiroun back with a vengeance
I had prepared an article on yesterday’s fiasco at Central Mosque in London in which, it seems, former members of al-Muhajiroun disrupted a presentation by the Muslim Council of Britain and assaulted Iqbal Sacranie....
Glenda’s five reasons to vote Labour
On my trip up to London yesterday, I picked up a copy of the Camden New Journal which is one of those papers you find in boxes free for anyone to take. It also...
The Tories’ election broadcast
I just saw the Tories’ party election broadcast for the first time, and I was unimpressed, to say the least. Actually, immigration didn’t play as much of a part in it as it did...
I hate neds
I was on the way back from work this after a day working at a tiling company in Croydon. I took the number 131 bus, which left Wimbledon about 7.47pm towards Kingston. The bus...
Hijab and academic freedom
BBC2 has just shown a programme in its This World series about the efforts of the French to deny properly-dressed girls the education their parents have paid for in their taxes. The programme also...
Postal vote concern
Via Nick Barlow’s blog, the Guardian is reporting about the recent up-surge in applications for postal votes, up by a third in some areas, which the Metropolitan police suspect may be a vehicle for...
Saudi publishers work for BNP!
An investigation by the Sunday Telegraph (free registration may be required) reveals that the notoriously anti-Islamic British National Party (commonly called British Nazi Party, or as Amir Brooks memorably called them, Bigots with No...
Howard – a Nazi?
It seems there’s been yet another spurious anti-Semitism row in the UK after Gypsy leaders accused Michael Howard (the right-wing opposition leader who, along with the Murdoch gutter rag The Sun – AKA The...
Gun paranoia on the rise again?
Michael Howard looks like he’s in trouble, because he told the parents of a toddler who died after being shot with an air gun that he opposes banning them. Now, I really do want...