This Isn’t Political At ALL
The Times – Camberley churches protest at mosque that will tower over Sandhurst
Churches have joined together to protest against plans for a mosque that would tower over the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, with one minister describing it as a “supremacist statement” for Islam. A collective comprising every church in [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Obama Needs Naptime Or Else He’ll Create a Diplomatic Incident
Telegraph – Barack Obama ‘too tired’ to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown
Barack Obama’s offhand approach to Gordon Brown’s Washington visit last week came about because the president was facing exhaustion over America’s economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs, the Sunday Telegraph has been told.
How does he explain the [...]
Categories: Politics
Government Healthcare
Another story I can’t stand so I’ll just quote Instapundit:
GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE: Neglected by ‘lazy’ nurses, man, 22, dying of thirst rang the police to beg for water. “A man of 22 died in agony of dehydration after three days in a leading teaching hospital. Kane Gorny was so desperate for a drink [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
The Best Kind of Research
Telegraph – Bad weather blamed for Scotland having ‘more people with ginger hair’ Scotland’s notoriously bad weather appears to be behind why more of the country’s population appeared to be blessed with ginger hair, new research has claimed.
The non scientific research found that in areas where the temperatures in summer were cooler and winter [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Who Wants Italian
I’ve never heard of Rose Gray, nor her restaurant, but reading India Knight write about eating (and going into labor, and continuing eating) there, makes me want to go there. Failing that, I can buy the cookbook…
Categories: Food
Nemo Fried Mars Bars Impune Lacessit
Mark Steyn being chipper and optimistic again on the subject of the West in general and in this case, a favourite topic of ours in particular:
Or take Scotland. Most anywhere you go around the planet, from Hong Kong to Hudson’s Bay, almost everything that works was created and developed by Scotsmen. Now the [...]
Categories: History
In Which War, Crime, Hunger Are Banished, Harmony and Fair Business Dealings Achieved For All
A few examples of the authorities trying to find ways to make themselves useful in this new paradise we find ourselves in:
BBC – ‘Nose blow’ driver case dropped
Michael Mancini said he had been given a fixed penalty notice after using a handkerchief while his van was stationary in traffic in Ayr. [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
One Quick “Ouch” Before I Turn In
Rod Liddle:
Just like you, I will be glued to my TV tonight to watch the first instalment of a Channel 4 series in which famous figures of today choose an iconic figure from the past and explain how influential they have been to their lives and philosophical outlook. Tonight we [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Alexander McQueen
Categories: Art and Literature
Life Imitates Ellis Peters!
Telegraph – Woman used rare poison in curry to kill ex-lover A woman found guilty of murdering her ex-lover used a rare poison which has not featured in a British court case since 1882.
Lakhvir Kaur Singh slipped aconite into Lakhvinder Cheema’s curry in January last year in revenge for his engagement to a younger [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Creepy On SO MANY Levels
Via RC2’s Google Feed: Exposed: Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff
UK Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said last week that the images produced by the scanners were deleted “immediately” and airport staff carrying out the procedure are fully trained and supervised.
Of course, you can just imagine all the [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Glaciers and Rain Forests and Politicians Gathering On Top Of Mount Flipping Everest, Oh My!
The Globe & Mail – The great global warming collapse As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement, by Margaret Wente
The impetus for the Copenhagen conference was that the science makes it imperative for us to act. But even if that were true – and even if [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
The Pinch!
Here’s a book I, or one of you who then report back to us on your findings, need to read: The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children’s Future – And Why They Should Give it Back
From here:
The Guardian – The Tory frontbencher deserves to be cherished as a rare politician who injects rigour [...]
Categories: History
Government Agencies as Servants of the Citizen!
The Sunday Times – Audit Commission’s anti-Tory ‘plot’, by Robert Watts
ENGLAND’S local government spending watchdog has paid a lobbying firm with links to Labour for advice on how to undermine Tory frontbenchers who challenged its activities. The Audit Commission, which is supposed to be politically neutral, paid nearly £60,000 to [...]
Categories: Politics
Sunday Quotations
From Tony Blair:
This isn’t about a lie or a conspiracy or a deceit or a deception,” Mr. Blair said. “It’s a decision. And the decision I had to take was, given Saddam’s history, given his use of chemical weapons, given the over one million people whose deaths he had caused, given 10 years [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
