a story in this week’s Time magazine is being called the definitive Barack Obama puff piece…According to political analysts, the Time piece features the most lack-of-depth reporting on Obama ever published…”I’m not quite sure how he intends to turn around the economy or get us out of Iraq,” said California resident Geoff Mills, an ardent [...]
The Real Tuesday Weld - The Day Before You Came
The Abba song, The Day Before You Came, covered by The Real Tuesday Weld
The British government is to fund a board of Islamic theologians in an attempt to sideline violent extremists…Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said it was government’s job to support Muslim leaders on controversial issues.
The BBC, Government funds Muslim thinkers
It’s absolutely fine by me if Muslim leaders wish to get together to discuss how they might [...]
Hot on the heels of Home Secretary Harriet Harman’s proposal to legalise sex discrimination in employment comes news of my local council’s non-white swimming sessions:
A council has been fiercely criticised for holding ethnic-minority only swimming sessions.
Wolverhampton City Council employs special life-guards and instructors for the sessions, which are open to the city’s black and Asian [...]
This almost illiterate answer in an English exam:
If he wasent doing enthing els heel help his uncle Herry at the funfair during the day. And had stoody at nigh on other thing he did was invent new rides.
“Becoues he invented a lot of new rides he won a prize. He didn’t live with his mum [...]
Button Gwinnett was one of the lesser-known signatories to the Declaration of Independence. He moved from Wolverhampton to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1762.
It appears he left behind some other Gwinnetts. Councillor Malcolm Gwinnett, from Wolverhampton, is reported as having some very illiberal views on photography in public.
The story goes like this: a father of two [...]
Today is the anniversary of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, New Mexico.
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer [...]
“We are not going to solve society’s problems. People have to do that on their own …[I]f you can’t get your kids to eat vegetables, why is it my job?”
From the Cato Institute’s blog McDonald’s CEO on Globalization and Eating Your Vegetables
As the blog post goes on to suggest, McDonald’s may well try to anticipate [...]
Young people who carry knives will be made to visit hospitals where stabbing victims are treated, in a bid to shock them into changing their behaviour
Mrs Smith’s proposals will see young people caught carrying knives being made to go to accident and emergency wards, to see the consequences of stabbings
BBC, Shock tactics for knife carriers [...]
