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 [...]
“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 [...]
A mother has been told she cannot travel to school with her severely epileptic son because she has not been police checked.
Jayne Jones, of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil, used to travel with her son Alex, 14, in the council-provided taxi when she feared he may have a fit.
BBC, Mum’s police check for school run
I communicate with members of the terror cult, all the time. I tell them to disregard that vulgar murder manual, the Koran. And I say that their so-called ‘prophet’ was a pedophile and a fraud.
Reminder: the phony ‘prophet’ was a sex-toy to an heiress to a wealthy trade family. When she turned 55 - Muhammad [...]
Bob Geldof, on the Magna Carter and liberty:
“To no man will we deny, To no man will we delay, Justice and Right.” Is that not grand, worthy of your vote…
…Liberty is always dangerous - but it’s the safest thing we have.
Sir Bob, in the Telegraph, Don’t let ‘Brave New Britain’ remove our fundamental rights
changes in technology wipe out roles: the computer has pretty much wiped out the occupation of typist (and thus might explain Polly [Toynbee]’s own move from such to columnist, neatly showing that not all technological advances are to the improvement of society)
Tim Worstall in ‘The Spectator’, Polly Toynbee: Political Journalist of the Year
