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Continue reading →: SEAL falls on grenade to save comrades – Yahoo! News
Link: SEAL falls on grenade to save comrades – Yahoo! News. If Michael A. Monsoor (left) was a Petty Officer, 2nd Class what on Earth must a 1st Class Petty Officer be like? We who sit complacently in our living rooms debating the rights and wrongs of war should remember…
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Continue reading →: Today’s political football results
Link: Cherie in dash to sick Euan’s American bedside | the Daily Mail. Private American Medicine 1: Glorious National Socialist Health Service 0
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Continue reading →: CWF 30th Anniversary Thatcher Dinner
Link: YouTube – CWF 30th Anniversary Thatcher Dinner. H/T Iain Dale. I commend you for your courage in putting this YouTube video on your site, Iain. It reminded me why I first became involved in politics too. There is not a word on there which is not anathema to the…
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Continue reading →: Army chief denies Government rift
Link: Telegraph | News | Army chief denies Government rift. “And Mr Blair’s official spokesman told reporters that the general had the Prime Minister’s full support” So he’ll be clearing his desk then, obviously.
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Continue reading →: General seeks UK Iraq withdrawal
Link: BBC NEWS | UK | General seeks UK Iraq withdrawal. The blogosphere is enjoying the Government’s embarrassment. I think Sir Richard should be fired. He is entitled to his views, but the Army exists to defend the realm and to implement with deadly force the foreign policy of the…
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Continue reading →: Judge critical of MI5 testimony
Link: BBC NEWS | UK | Judge critical of MI5 testimony. Executive summary: by a fluke, the Government’s secret police have been caught out giving contradictory evidence in secret trials involving terrorist suspects. One set of evidence (at least) was a pack of lies. Only Shami Chakrabarti, as usual, speaks…
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Continue reading →: The Mufti of Jerusalem and Friends
I am still smarting from hearing native Britons called “Nazis” on the MPAC-UK website for merely supporting Jack Straw’s suggestion that it would be good for integration if their women foreswore the “niqab” Here is an excerpt from a German TV documentary, which demonstrates how little right Muslims have to…
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Continue reading →: French in Armenia ‘genocide’ row
Link: BBC NEWS | World | Europe | French in Armenia ‘genocide’ row. This is where the logic of outlawing “Holocaust denial” takes us. If it’s illegal to deny one atrocity, why not another? While I despise the current fashion for apologising for history, I have some sympathy with the…
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Continue reading →: More soft paternalism | Samizdata.net
Link: More soft paternalism | Samizdata.net. Do read this post on Samizdata. Not just because the author makes a good point about the ideological flabbiness of the Daily Telegraph these days, but because of the amusing comment by Perry de Haviland. Secure mental hospitals for those with a compulsive psychological…
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
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I’m generally against more laws but would make an exception for this. Goose, Gander, etc. We should be using their…
I like it and agree. I’m not sure how many others would! 😎
That’s a modern “more law” approach — and certainly consistent with our Establishment’s current aggressive approach. However I don’t want…
Maybe they should be legally required to only provide halal to muslims or those that request it. If you are…
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Remove the exception is my preference. Prove that it is only consumed by those following the relevant faith is unwieldy.…