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12 March, 2014

Tales from the Multiculture: Integration?

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Spotted this arvo in vibrant downtown Woolwich, My skills in reading Arabic script are a bit limited ( ie non-existent).  So, taking...
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15 December, 2013

Joining the grown-ups

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Following the Guardian's recent bid to recolonize Australia and to bring intellectual succour to the beleaguered minority of decent met...
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09 December, 2013

De mortuis...

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I slept late this morning. BBC R4 is running the Long Walk to Freedom as its morning book reading.  Woman's Hour , which I blearily h...
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07 December, 2013

Zaphod's just zis guy, ya know?

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According to Gag Halfrunt , anyway. Much the same can be said of Nelson Mandela.  Mr Mandela, a former terrorist/freedom fighter (delete a...
05 November, 2013

Saying boo to a goose ... is a vile, life-threatening hate crime

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Apparently. Ceci n'est pas une oie Hmm! I am always wary of drawing conclusions from the news reports of criminal prosecutions....
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04 November, 2013

Tongue? Yeuch! I'm not eating that - it's been in something's mouth!

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... he whined piteously, the while sprinkling more salt onto his hard-boiled egg. The Telegraph reports Muslim prisoners sue over cont...
03 November, 2013

Oops!

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London's buses: the problem of overcrowding is only going to get worse London's iconic red buses rack up an incredible 6m passen...
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01 November, 2013

That's the way to do it

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I've never heard of this site before ( via ). It's a newsfeed for Australians living in the UK, the vast majority on working holid...
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03 October, 2013

This post sort-of intentionally left almost blankish

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Neko-san's most recent post at the time of writing Deleted is a placeholder for a post he had published, then had second thoughts a...
08 September, 2013

The EDL in - or almost in - Tower Hamlets

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An interesting reportback from Esme on yesterday's EDL gig on the very marches of the Islamic Republic of Tar Amlets. From Tower Bri...
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Give the buggers an inch...

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I think I've made my views about "gay marriage", aka "marriage equality" (scare quotes intended) fairly clear, but j...
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02 September, 2013

Chippygate

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In (what really ought to be) a tedious non-story , we learn about Paul Bradbury,who has just taken over a fish and chip shop in Padiham.  Mr...
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01 September, 2013

Lee Rigby: a very belated RIP

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The consistent focus of this blog since I started it by accident in 2005 has been immigration and race relations in the UK, leavened with th...
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24 March, 2013

The gleeful wrath of the Righteous

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Until Thursday I had never heard of Nathan Upton. Nor of Lucy Meadows. Nor indeed of his/her personal tribulations. If I recall correct...
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05 March, 2013

The creepiness of Wikipedia

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Just listening to the newsreader on The World Tonight literally a couple of minutes ago (about 22:07) as I write.  She intones: In the la...
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26 February, 2013

It's only words

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The Archers and Woman's Hour are two Radio 4 programmes which help to keep me fit.  For a 64-year-old who takes less exercise than he ...
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