It is 50 years since Britain’s first Race Relations Act was passed, banning racial discrimination in public places, but it has become a common and effective ploy to denigrate with impunity, someone’s character by labelling them as a “racist”, hasn’t it? Yes, while in this Country people cannot get away with making damaging tenuous accusations […]
Many of us know of the phrase about men being from Mars and women from Venus, and ‘get’ the basic message that the sexes are a bit different, don’t we? However, many ignorant or discriminatory others take it a bit further than that – or to be more accurate they take the differences between men […]
A a free press, not controlled or restricted by government censorship in political or moral or religious or other matters, which unrestrainedly publishes news, books and provides media facilities, remains a fundamental right of us in a free democratic nation, doesn’t it? Now, such journalistic freedom doesn’t come without a price unfortunately as it comes […]
They say that ex-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has stirred-up a hornet’s nest by ridiculing the wearing of the ‘full face veil’ burka – what a load of tosh, eh? The anti-Boris crowd, egging-on elements of the sensational press, are making a mockery of what was a sensible and balanced article that Johnson wrote […]
So called Islamic State (IS/ISIS /ISL/ Daesh) is notorious for spreading hatred, beheading victims on camera and instigating deadly terrorist attacks A few weeks ago the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) called for an independent inquiry into alleged Islamophobia within the Conservative Party. In a letter to Brandon Lewis MP, the Tory […]
comments appreciated In a referendum last Friday, the Irish Republic voted by a landslide to repeal the ‘Eighth Amendment’ constitutional protection for the life of the unborn, so their parliament can now proceed to ‘liberlise’ abortion – basically that means pregnancy terminations ‘on demand’. [Abortion is currently permitted under the act only where there […]
Lunchtime a week ago yesterday brought onto the television screens of the World, the eagerly anticipated and awaited grandiose wedding of Britain’s Prince Harry [33] and American actress Meghan Markle [36], didn’t it? The couple were conferred with the title of ‘Duke and Duchess of Sussex’ by the Queen that very day – only the second […]
A new statue sculptured ‘by a woman’ has been placed and unveiled ‘by a woman’, in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament, and unbelievably it was one of ‘a woman’ – the 1890’s suffragist, a non-militant, [not to be confused with suffragettes who were] campaigner Millicent Fawcet. Now this bronze was placed in […]
Anti-Semitic HATE in Many of us thinking people in Britain can float between parties when it comes to voting, according to what we think is best for our beloved Country. Nevertheless, while socialism doubtless should have a significant role to play in the future of the UK, the bulk of the people here could […]
Just 2 weeks ago, many of us woke up four days before Christmas [21 dec] to face the dreadful fact, plastered all over our daily newspapers and bared on our TV screens and widely reported in other media, that late the previous afternoon Jodie Willsher, a young mother of just 30 years of age, […]
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