David Blunkett policy maker
The Register has linked this marvellous David Blunkett policy generator page – a site which can generate “draconian rhetoric, whenever you need it”. It may generate real Plonkett policy. (Hat tip: Roger Whittaker at...
Category: Politics
The Olympic bid
Am I the only person in London who gets thoroughly annoyed at the “Back the Bid” propaganda which is being displayed all over town? I was on the District Line today and saw these...
Reflections on the recent US elections
This is the first real opportunity I’ve had to blog about the outcome of the US elections. Everyone I know is gutted, and the best anyone could come up with as a “silver lining”...
IQ & Bush support
Dr Maxtor has posted an amusing report which indicates that there is a correlation between low IQ and support for Bush. Among people of IQs above 140, there is 80% support for Kerry, among...
USAid funding forced sterilisation in India
The Guardian reports today that a sterilisation policy is underway in northern India, in which gun licences are being issued in return for men receiving vasectomies – in the case of a revolver licence,...
New Ecologist out
The new edition of the Ecologist magazine is out – this month the main feature is called “Do You Work for a Psycho?”, a feature on the recent film (and book) The Corporation, a...
Mail to GWB site mistakenly sent to opponents
Shaula Evans at Tzuredzuregusa reports that the George W Bush campaign parody site had been gathering emails which were being mistakenly sent to them instead of to the legitimate campaign site. One of these...
Second part of “The Power of Nightmares”
Yesterday the BBC aired the second part of its drama The Power of Nightmares, in which they followed the history of the Islamist movements and the neo-Conservatives during the period of their collaboration in...
Against government casino plans
Those of you in the UK may be aware of government plans to reform the gambling laws, and among the plans include plans for so-called “Las Vegas-style casinos”. I’m sure all Muslims disapprove of...
The oppressors’ rally
Well, I managed to get to the rally organised by “Global Justice UK 2004” which I got the leaflet for yesterday. As I had suspected, there was really no place for Muslims at this...
Brazil held up enforcing law … on US demand
A Brazilian journalist called Carlos Chagas reports here that the Brazilian government held up implementing the "shoot-down law", enabling the shooting-down of planes which are being used to smuggle drugs, was held up for...
Debate about Welsh house buying policies
The BBC is reporting that a couple, of Iraqi origin, have been blocked from buying a house in north-west Wales because they are not from the area. The current owner is talking of suing...
So, that’s it for the fox hunters
I didn’t know that the vote on fox hunting was about to be taken yesterday until yesterday morning – it’s been debated for years, particularly since the Blair government took power in 1997. (Under...
Moore: Jews most oppressed people on Earth
A lot of Muslims are glad of Michael Moore’s “exposé” of George W Bush’s government, Fahrenheit 9/11, even though everyone knows the film is full of half-truths, distortions and cheap shots, as even people...
Tories win east London seat
It seems the election for the vacant council seat in Millwall, east London, is over, and the Tory candidate has won! The winner is a guy called Simon Rouse, and it seems that this...
Gordon Brown’s ambitions
Listening to the recent speculation about Tony Blair’s recent “cabinet reshuffle” (i.e. hiring, firing and moving of politicians in his cabinet), one hears a lot about the tension between Gordon Brown and his supporters,...
Don’t appease Putin
Simon Heffer of the London Daily Mail has written a piece in this week’s Spectator, in which he calls for western politicians not to play into the hands of the Putin régime, which besides...
Neo-Nazis on the web
An interesting piece was published in the “Online” supplement of today’s Guardian – Fear and Loathing, by Nick Ryan, about hate material on the web and the violence and intimidation organised over the Internet....
The Protocols of the Elders of New Orleans
The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that a group of veteran hate-mongers have met in New Orleans, among them David Duke and the founder of the British National Party, John Tyndall. Apparently they have...
Our rulers are scared of us
The Observer reports that the British authorities are seriously considering sealing off an area around the Houses of Parliament. Anyone who has been to the area knows that Parliament lies right next to a...