The Mayor of London could be banned from office and forced to make an apology to a journalist after a government watchdog announced that he was to face a disciplinary hearing.
Ken Livingstone has refused to apologise since likening a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard at a reception six months ago. As [...]

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British Army officers in Iraq are being handed stashes of up to £100,000 in cash for “operational expenses” without formal controls on how it is spent.
The money is used by the SAS and other units to buy off leaders of the insurgency or to purchase weapons on the black market to avoid them passing into [...]

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“Ample proof that rap has been around for 500 years.” Sorry, blacks, you can’t even claim rap as your own!
John Skelton lived from the 1460s until 1529. He came after Geoffrey Chaucer and Sir Thomas Mallory. He preceded Spenser and Shakespeare. He was a young man when Mallory’s “Le Mort d’Arthur” was published, and [...]

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A code-breaking book which aims to change the image of William Shakespeare and reveal him as a subversive who embedded dangerous political messages in his work is to be published in Britain.
Far from being an ambitious entertainer who played down his Catholic roots under a repressive Elizabethan regime, Shakespeare took deliberate risks each time he [...]

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Encouraging news about the continued rebirth of European folk-culture has come out of the tiny Channel Islands lying between France and England. For the first time in generations the use of the Norman language of the UK’s Channel Island of Jersey (the language is called Jèrriais) is increasing, mainly amongst youth. There are language programs [...]

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Members of Britain’s elite have been selected as priority cases to receive scarce pills and vaccinations at the taxpayers’ expense if the country is hit by a deadly bird flu outbreak. Workers at the BBC and prominent politicians — such as cabinet ministers — would be offered protection from the virus.
Ken Livingstone, the London mayor, [...]

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About 1.6 million women had an abortion last year, a fifth of them under the age of 18, and about 1.5 million gave birth, said Vladimir Kulakov, vice president of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. “Many more” abortions weren’t reported.
“The appearance of a first child pushes many families into poverty,” Kulakov said today in [...]

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The multicultural fantasy in Europe - its eclipse can be seen most poignantly in the Netherlands, that most self-definedly liberal of all European countries - was that, in due course, Islamic and other immigrants would eventually come to “accept” the values of their new countries.
It was never clear how this vision was supposed to coexist [...]

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The speaker of Italy’s Senate has come under fire from the Roman Catholic Church and some political leaders and commentators for saying Italians risked becoming members of a “mixed race” because of immigration.
The comments by Marcello Pera shocked many because his post ranks only second to the presidency in Italy’s institutional hierarchy and he is [...]

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THE woman leading protests against a guinea pig farm has been branded a hypocrite for using drugs tested on animals to treat her breast cancer.
Janet Tomlinson, 61, has outraged campaigners seeking cures through research.
Vicky Cowell, of the Seriously Ill for Medical Research, said: “It’s hypocritical that one minute she is campaigning furiously against medical [...]

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A farm that has been breeding guinea pigs for medical research for more than 30 years is to stop after intimidation by animal rights activists.
The family-run Darley Oaks Farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire, has been hit by a six-year campaign of abuse.
The owners and people connected with the firm have received death threats. [...]

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Picture of the day:
Female Hamas guerrillas training at a secret Gaza camp.
Note the camo-colored burkas.

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Two companies in Northampton are giving women free lifts home from the balloon festival this weekend to make them feel safer after a series of sex attacks.
Between 31 July and 8 August three women were raped and attempts were made to abduct two other women.
Now four minibuses, called The Cinderella Service and driven by [...]

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The number of asylum seekers arriving in Britain fell by 11% in the second quarter of this year, Home Office figures show.
Between 1 April and the end of June, 6,220 people, excluding dependants such as spouses and children, arrived in the UK claiming asylum.
In the first quarter of the year the number was 7,015. [...]

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“One of the great questions of our time is whether Europe will, in the coming century, maintain its identity and civilization, or be gradually absorbed into the expanding Muslim world. And America’s fate cannot be divorced from that of its forebears.”
– Mona Charen

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An interesting libertarian take on Tony Blair’s “war against extremism”…
The War on Our Own Citizens continues. More precisely, Britain’s war on its own citizens has just been initiated. In an earlier treatise, I described the devastating effect that the Western governments’ reactions to the July 7, 2005, London terror attacks had on the liberty and [...]

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A bit of weirdness out of Germany…
Again and again the lyrics of Bushido and his gangsta rapper homies openly flirt with fascism. “Salutiert, steht stramm, Ich bin der Leader wie A,” (Salute, stand to attention, I am the leader like ‘A’), raps Bushido. The ‘A’, of course, stands for Adolf. A rap collective [...]

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The latest album by HERR, whose popularity among fans of Martial and Neo-classical music is growing steadily, has just been released on the Cold Spring Records label. Steeped in tragedy and legionary heroism, ‘The Winter of Constantinople’ is a musical odyssey which recreates the penultimate 1453 siege of the Byzantine capital beside the shimmering waters [...]

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[I fail to see point in stopping Whites or Chinese as they are not going to be suicide bombers-ed]
The number of Asian people stopped by British Transport Police (BTP) since the London bomb attacks has increased sharply, figures from the force show.
In the five weeks following 7 July, Asians accounted for 35% of people [...]

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The Liberal Democrat leader in Europe has reignited the party’s debate on drug policy, with a call for the regulated legalisation of all hard drugs.
Chris Davies, MEP for the North West region and leader of the party in Brussels, put himself at odds with the party leadership by calling for a rethink of prohibition in [...]

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