SAVE GORBALS MICK?.

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It would be great if the Conservatives actually showed a bit of bottle and helped us get rid of the bloated parasite in the grotesque form of Michael Martin that occupies the historic role of Speaker of the House of Commons. There is far too much prevarication and triangulation going on when what is needed is clear leadership on this issue. The BBC reports that their darling, Nick Clegg, has … Continue reading →

A commentary of biases

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We don’t normally scrutinise the BBC’s essayists. We haven’t tried a survey of how many we consider right versus how many left. As a matter of fact I’ve never read any in-house commentary on the BBC that showed any strong right orientation, but I thought I’d look at this piece from Iain Watson. It’s about the Labour party launching its election campaign for the Euros with the expenses row echoing … Continue reading →

ISLAM AND CIVILISATION

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I wonder what being Muslim in name only means? The BBC has an item on Today asking if Islam is not compatible with modernity, can Islam ever comfortably conform to Western society? Ali Allawi, former cabinet minister in the Iraqi post-war governments, argues in his new book The Crisis of Islamic Civilisation that Muslim modernisers have been seduced by a certainty in scientific knowledge to the extent that they are … Continue reading →

OVER REPRESENTED…

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Interesting to hear our old friend Abdal Hakim Murad, Muslim Chaplain at the University of Cambridge back on again Thought for the Day this morning. He’s never off and yet what % of the UK population is Muslim exactly? I have no problem with TFTD providing platforms for all faiths (and indeed for pathologies such as Islam) but it is the frequency with which the ROP gets to broadcast which … Continue reading →

THE THREE CARD TRICK

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Nice to see the BBC oblige poor beleaguered Mr Brown by allowing his attack dog John McFall to posture on Today that it was the bankers that caused our economic recession, sorry, I mean down-turn that’s now on the up-turn, any day soon. It’s my view that the Labour spin machine is trying a three card trick routine on us by introducing the evil bankers as a useful distraction for … Continue reading →

"a city they had recently tried to wipe off the map"

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Isn’t life strange ? One day you’re trying to erase Berlin, another you’re trying to save its people. North by Northwest on this Dan Bell report. I can see what Mr Bell is trying to do – the human side and all that. But a little context would be in order – maybe a little about why Stalin was trying to “expel the Western powers from the city” – aka … Continue reading →