Last Friday, the government was widely reported to have recently requested local councils and primary health trusts specially to target black and mixed race Caribbean youngsters in an attempt to reduce their comparatively high rates of teen-age pregnancy which do so much to make Britain top of the European league-tables for teenage-conception and teenage-motherhood. In… [Read More]
David Cameron made a speech yesterday in which he unveiled the main new policies that he intends to implement if his party wins the next election. He will, he said, provide voters with more leisure rather than tax cuts, as well as opportunity to use that increased leisure in ways he claimed are more life-enhancing… [Read More]
A curious case of combined myopia and amnesia seems to have afflicted those western commentators who currently accuse Israel of being engaged at present in unjust, because disproportionate, military activity in Lebanon and Gaza. According to those afflcited by this malady, while Israel might well have every right to the world’s sympathy as well as… [Read More]
Every night at this time of year, Channel Four broadcasts an episode of its seemingly interminable and tedious Big Brother programme. Friday night episodes reveal the identity of whichever housemate viewers have voted to be evicted that week from the house in which they are incarcerated together for the duration of the series. At 7.30pm… [Read More]
According to a report in today’s Times, the weekend before last a two-day conference took place at Istanbul’s Ceylan Intercontinental Hotel on the challenges and opportunities facing the Muslims of Europe. Judged by the £500 per night prices that hotel charges, the fact the £300,000 conference bill was met entirely by the British tax-payer clearly… [Read More]
It has been widely reported in the media this week that an Anglican vicar is in the process of garnering enough support from his fellow clergymen and women to be able to table at the General Synod of the Church of England a private member’s motion calling for St George to be replaced by St… [Read More]
No British Prime Minister has ever gone farther out on a limb in support of US public policy than Tony Blair. There is no doubt the his present level of extreme unpopularity with both the electorate and the Labour Party is closely related to his adherence to every nuance of US foreign policy with regard… [Read More]
For a change, some good news courtesy of a report in today’s Times: By last night tendering their resignations from the Dutch coalition government, three ministers belonging to the tiny coalition partner in it, the strangely named D-66 party, have brought it down. Their resignations forced the Dutch prime minister to tender his resignation, thereby… [Read More]
‘I hope we will honour the victims [of the London terror bombings last July], and look frankly at what can be done at the European level to give more coherence to the fight against terrorism and organised crime.’ So Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, is reported to have said according to a… [Read More]
Through its system of select committees, the House of Commons is currently undertaking a review of citizenship education in schools. This element of the national curriculum aims to turn out pupils who are civil, politically literate, and active in public affairs. Given newspaper accounts of daily proceedings in the Commons, there is some reason to… [Read More]