September 5, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Erm… “John Reid will sanction the forced removal of up to 32 Iraqis today after telling the high court he would ignore any last-minute legal challenge to their deportation.”Yes, that’s right – the Home Secretary has announced that he will … Continue reading
August 31, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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This sounds like it was fun. (Unlike this alternative protest…) I particularly approve of protesting against the lack of hat wearing in public life – some blame the last few decades’ collapse of civil society and boom in crime on … Continue reading
August 31, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Today: “Infighting within the Labour Party will help the Conservatives at the next general election, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said.”Two months ago: “In what amounts to one of the most public rows among senior Blairites since 1997, Mr … Continue reading
August 30, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Thus spake France’s Minister for European Affairs, Catherine Colonna, giving her opinion of the state of the EU to the assembled ranks of the French Ambassadorial elite. Packed with (if we’re honest, fairly astute) criticisms of the current way the … Continue reading
August 29, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Considering that Japan’s own Tony Blair, Junichiro Koizumi, is due to step down as Prime Minister in a few weeks, it’s hard to know what impact his current sucking up to murderous Central Asian dictators will have on the constitutionally … Continue reading
August 29, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Colman is spot on about Angela Merkel’s suggestion that God should have a place in any new EU constitution. Merkel contests that “[the constitution] should be connected to Christianity and God, as Christianity has forged Europe in a decisive way” … Continue reading
August 28, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Our man Worstall reminds me that our man Barlow is still slogging away on his John O-Groats to Land’s End walk in aid of the Brain Research Trust (follow his progress here) – which reminded me that I had a … Continue reading
August 28, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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And to celebrate, a redesign! Here’s where I started properly – and since then it’s been near-daily updates all the way. I liked the old design, but although it worked fine in Firefox and Safari, I’d been getting a few … Continue reading
August 26, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Up now at The Sharpener – some good’uns in there, even if it did take me rather longer than I’d hoped to get the thing up…
August 25, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Not guilty of taking part in a terrorist plot that never existed? Meh… Never mind – let’s deport the bugger anyway. To a regime known to use torture. That has already admitted that it plans to lock him up as … Continue reading
August 24, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Finally, an admission from the government, in Ruth Kelly’s speech launching Britain’s own Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Commission on Integration and Cohesion: “Muslims feel the reverberations from the Middle East. Wider global trends have an impact.” So despite all … Continue reading
August 22, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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This could be fun – expose the inanity, and all entirely legally.(I’ve been in the wilds of Dartmoor for the last few days, by the by, and have picked up a lurgy – more later if my brain clears, nose … Continue reading
August 17, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Well let’s just say that when nearly a third of Northern Irish students can receive an A-grade in the things, with a UK-wide average of a quarter getting As, the thing starts to look a tad suspect. Being in the … Continue reading
August 17, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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It’s bad enough when a teacher who supports the BNP gets sacked for their (decidedly repellant) political beliefs, despite no evidence that those beliefs were being propagated in the classroom. But suspending someone for being a right-wing Tory and writing … Continue reading