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Nasrallah calls on his Hezbollah followers to topple the Lebanese government, an anti-Syrian government minister is assassinated, and the prospect of civil war looms large.Flashback (via Moonbat Media):

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Tuesday November 21:An injured Israeli man is tended to by a paramedic after being wounded by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, in the town of Sderot, Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006. Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at the Israeli town Tuesday, seriously wounding at least one person, Israeli rescue services said. Militants (sic) have fired more than

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Reuters:KOLKATA, India, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of communists marched in the Indian city of Kolkata on Thursday demanding that Saddam Hussein's death sentence be lifted.India's left parties, which won a record number of parliamentary seats in the 2004 elections, have a long history of opposing American foreign policy and have held huge protests in recent years against U.S. military

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Some quotes from Media Guardian today:"Ed Richards, the Ofcom chief executive, has defended the new wide-ranging restrictions on junk food advertising to children…""Five chief executive Jane Lighting: 'The long-term future of UK-produced children's programming outside the BBC is bleak.'""Mr Richards, of course, is the architect of a potentially big intervention into the media market - the public

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Er... Wow!The Dutch cabinet has backed a proposal by the country's immigration minister to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public places.The burqa, a full body covering that also obscures the face, would be banned by law in the street, and in trains, schools, buses and the law courts.

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Fraser Nelson in The Spectator (registration required):The fiasco of Tony Blair’s terror strategy has been one of the best-kept secrets in Whitehall. As a matter of principle, the Prime Minister never answers questions about MI5 or MI6 — although he enjoys flaunting what he claims is his close relationship with the ‘professionals’. Those affected by his years of indecision have tended to keep

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Al Gore turns up in Australia with his "travelling global warming show". Result? The coldest minimum temperatures in over a century.

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Press Gazette:Irreverent farewell front pages are as much a part of journalistic culture as messy desks and bad pay.But the new editor of the South China Morning Post, Mark Clifford, didn't see the funny side when colleagues prepared a front page for Sunday Morning Post editor Niall Fraser headlined: "You're a c**t, but you're a good c**t."Two subs — Trevor Willison, who is British, and

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Richard North connects some important dots:...because of the billions we have already wasted on the European defence project (to say nothing of all the other billions squandered) we are being forced to fight our real wars on the cheap. Because of that, we are in grave danger of losing...Effectively, pro-war is anti-EU. On the other hand, support for the EU and all it stands for can only ensure

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Joshua Muravchik at foreignpolicy.com :The silver lining in the cloud of anti-Americanism is that every stuffy orthodoxy inspires some bright, independent-minded people to rebel. Like many of you, I receive a steady stream of messages from behind enemy lines, so to speak—from France, Germany, Arab countries, and even the BBC — saying, “The people all around me hate America, but I love America.”

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Radio Free Europe:November 15, 2006 -- Azerbaijani prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into an Azerbaijani newspaper, after it published an article that said Islam was blocking humanity's development.The article also argued that the Prophet Muhammad had only created problems for Eastern countries.The small-circulation newspaper "Senet" published an article this month that compared

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From The Telegraph:Downing Street has instructed lawyers to challenge any prosecution based on the cash for honours investigation because ministers believe it has been compromised by unauthorised leaks. [Says Downing Street!]...The lawyers have complained to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that the investigation, which began in March, has been undermined by dozens of leaks to the media which

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Melanie Phillips:Do the core aims of al Qaeda to restore the medieval Muslim caliphate and call the infidel world to Islam lead inescapably back to Israel and Palestine? Do the ravings of Syed Qutb, the arch-ideologue of murderous Islamism who wrote well before Israel was created that the west was a conspiracy to destroy Islam, the Jews were the people of the devil and Muslims must recognise no

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Extract from a BBC (!!) item on Islamic extremism taken from Radio 4's PM. The full report is on Newsnight this evening. Update. The Times:A SENIOR member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is working as a computer technician at the Home Office, despite calls by Tony Blair for the group to be banned.The activist, named as Abid Javaid, is said to be an official at the Immigration and Nationality

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Jim Naughtie introducing an item about Tory-supporting online broadcasters on this morning’s Today (13:15 in):Their founders say they’re proud to be partisan. Is objective news on the way out?That's a bit bloody rich.

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Lord Goldsmith has joined the chorus of Labour politicians who think that the race hate laws need to be toughened. I still haven't heard anything from the Tories yet.Still, it gives me an excuse to post this old South Park episode."Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000"

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BBC: 'Cold turkey' pay-out of £750,000

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From Conservative Home:I have found no Tory reaction to the BNP's latest publicity coup.Nor I. The LibDems have condemned Labour politicians' calls for further restrictions on free speech. The Tories, to their shame, have been silent.Update. Talking of LibDems...

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Excellent post by Laban on the BBC's reporting of racist murders.

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Jon Snow on why he doesn’t wear a poppy on air: "I do not believe in wearing anything which represents any kind of statement."He didn’t mind making a statement with his Make Poverty History wristband: "I had it on as I was about to interview Michael Howard on election eve. My producer suddenly asked: "Do you think you should be wearing that?" I said I should because it was beyond contention." (

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Sad story, and I don't fancy the family's chances of retribution if the BBC's headline is anything to go by...(Has the headline been updated yet? Check here). Update:(Via the comments at Biased BBC)

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Apologies for not warning you all that I was going to be away again this week.Still, didn’t miss much, eh? (Ahem)I’ve spent most of today learning how to use Windows Movie Maker. Here’s my first effort, recently uploaded to YouTube.(Update. If you get a "Not available" message try clicking a couple more times - seems to work apparently. I haven't removed the video, that's for sure.)

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Tawfik Hamid interview in the National Post (hat tip Andy):He was trained under Ayman al-Zawahiri, the bearded jihadi who appears in Bin Laden's videos, telling the world that Islamic violence will stop only once we all become Muslims.He's a disarmingly gentle and courteous man. But he's determined to tell a complacent North America what he knows about fundamentalist Muslim imperialism."Yes, '

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Just what we fucking need - more tax-funded media. Media Guardian:The culture, media and sport select committee has announced an inquiry into public service media content.Early next year, the committee will look at a range of issues facing public service television, including its prospects once the UK switches over to digital television.It will also look at "the viability of existing funding

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A letter from a former BBC News cameraman in today's Media Guardian:Like John Simpson, who this week leapt to the defence of BBC "impartiality", I began my near 40-year broadcast career in BBC TV news. It was impartial then; it certainly isn't now. I have seen my own visual material presented in an entirely different timeline, totally distorting the actual event that I witnessed, and at no time

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Earlier today I blogged that there had been accusations of pro-Islamist bias made against the BBC’s Somali service. Ed at Biased BBC linked here, adding this observation: I have been deeply suspicious of the BBC's Somalia output for a while now: lots of spin about how the Islamic Courts were bringing the smack of firm Government.Ed, you don’t know how right you are!Many thanks to Max in the

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Heh.

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"Why is the BBC silent about the Bu'aale massacre?" (Via aminarts.com)From SomaliNet (hat tip Alan in the comments at Biased BBC):BBC Somali service accused of abetting Islamic CourtsMany Somalis who depend on BBC's Somali service for their daily news dose were outraged when the service decided not to cover a recent massacre in a small town in southern Somalia. At least four wounded militia men

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Manchester Evening News:A MUSLIM woman was prevented from getting on a bus in Greater Manchester because she would not remove her veil.The 22-year-old Manchester University student from Oldham says other passengers laughed when the driver refused to let her on because he could not check her identity with her bus pass.Now the driver's bosses at First Manchester are to meet with their trade

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The following is an extract from a report on backstreet dentists from the great TV current affairs parody The Day Today:BELX [V.O.]: The next night, our dentist was back at work.[An infra-red camera picks out the dentist ripping someone's teeth out with pliers.]BELX: Proof, if proof be need be, that it's going to take more than a big syringe to cure Britain's mouth.(Full transcript here)And here’

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If anyone should know about jihadi propaganda, it’s the former chief of Reuters' Middle East bureau. From the Press Gazette:Video footage is now as important a weapon as plastic explosives or guns in the war in Iraq and the global jihad movement, former Reuters Middle East bureau chief Paul Eedle has claimed.In Jihad TV, a documentary to be broadcast on Channel 4 next week, Eedle investigates the

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From USA Today:"The Holocaust is a myth and this issue has finally made waves thanks to the action of President Ahmadinejad in daring to express himself on the subject and break the Holocaust taboo," Iranian Culture Minister Mohammad Hossein Saffar-Harandi said as he announced the cartoon winners.Abdollah Derkaoui received $12,000 for his work depicting an Israeli crane piling large cement blocks

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The BBC's John Simpson defends the Corporation:Simpson said: "The BBC's permanent staff don't take kindly to seeing our principles dismissed by people who are often just passing through. Especially not if it's done in the pages of some newspapers which wouldn't know objectivity if they trod in it."And which nobody is forced to pay for, unlike the BBC. I wonder what papers are considered objective

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Via Man in a Shed - the BBC's Sarah Mukherjee describes yesterday's Stern Report press conference.The North Koreans would be proud.

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From the Media Guardian (registration required):A group of 14 senior academics have attacked the BBC's commercial competitors insisting that they are attempting to "diminish" the corporation by lobbying for a lower licence fee settlement... The letter says the BBC is a "trusted ambassador for Britain" and calls on the government not to force the corporation to "reduce its vision or scale through

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First we had this two-parter from the BBC’s Spooks, reviewed by a correspondent to Melanie Phillips' blog:The main plot involves a group of ruthless Mid-East hijackers who take over a London embassy and shoot people every hour. They turn out (of course) to be Jews in disguise. We have a Jewish traitor in high places with dialogue invoking the classic ‘can’t serve two masters’ accusation: ‘I asked

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Belated thanks to Little Bulldogs for this scan from the Jewish Chronicle.

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In a recent article about the consensus view on climate change, the Telegraph’s Ruth Lea made the following observations:Economics, albeit more prosaically, has also been subject to fads, whims and consensus views to which history has not been kind.Twenty-five years ago Britain was at an economic crossroads. The credibility of the British economy was collapsing as inflation and unemployment

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I was away a bit longer than I anticipated. Did I miss much?

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Bye 'til next week. (Comments are off in case yesterday's trolls return in my absence. Sorry.)

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BBC:Iran's president has warned that Muslims around the world will take revenge on states who supported Israel against the Palestinians...It is in your own interest to distance yourself from these criminals... This is an ultimatum. Don't complain tomorrow."The "ultimatum" was directed at European states in particular."We have advised the Europeans that the Americans are far away, but you are the

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'Bush is stupid' jokes are par for the course for someone like Pilger, but how can the BBC justify its own journalists joining in?It’s extremely rare for a Today presenter to butt in and comment during a colleague’s interview but James “Bush Derangement Syndrome” Naughtie couldn’t resist this morning. During a discussion about Bush’s recent comments on the Tet offensive, Carolyn Quinn (I think,

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[This is a re-post. The previous thread got taken over by someone impersonating regulars and I can't be bothered sorting it all out. I've saved all the comments - if there's anything anyone particularly wants re-posting then email me. Sorry to do it this way but I'm going away for a week tomorrow and I'm not wasting time picking over the comments of trolls]Yorkshire Post:An Islamic educational

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The Guardian leader comment, August 17:...French, Dutch and German ministers are said to support ethnic profiling, while the usual suspects within the British media have taken up the call, attracted by a naive utilitarian argument that since young, male Muslims are the likeliest perpetrators, the easiest means of increasing security would be to single them out for special attention. The EU and

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From The Sun:CHARLES Kennedy was axed as host of an awards ceremony last night — after organisers decided he was not fit to deliver a speech.Kennedy, who quit as Lib-Dem leader over booze problems, allegedly slurred his words at a dress rehearsal yesterday afternoon.Mr Kennedy reportedly stumbled over his lines and struggled to read an autocue...Mr Kennedy’s spokeswoman claimed last night there

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Today's press release from the National Audit Office about the abject failures of the Rural Payments Agency was titled:"Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Rural Payments Agency: the delays in administering the 2005 Single Payment Scheme in England"The release states clearly:The Rural Payments Agency is responsible for administering single payment scheme payments in England.

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Michelle Malkin's latest Hot Air report lays into the EU's attempt to regulate, stifle and ultimately suffocate free expression on the net. UK readers - you can contact your MEP here.

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Peter Hitchens:I have just taken a phone call from a radio station wanting to discuss Muslim veils. What did I think? You can guess. My views were rejected by the show's producer as being 'too reasonable’. Here's the rule. Moral, social and political conservatives can generally only get on the BBC if they can be cast as extremist monsters, perched on the extreme end of the panel and 'balanced' by

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More censorship. Last night members of the National Union of Journalists "courageously resisted" the possibility of offending Muslims. From the Media Guardian (registration required):The Daily Star last night pulled a page that mocked Muslim law by turning the tabloid into the "Daily Fatwa" following a newsroom revolt.Management acted after the Daily Star's National Union of Journalists' chapel

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Still nothing from the BBC's Open Secrets blogger Martin Rosenbaum on the decision to take the Balen Report case to the High Court, but he has commented on the proposed changes to the cost of freedom of information requests:I've been asked numerous times today what the impact of the latest government proposals would be on BBC journalism, so here is the answer - they would dramatically curtail the

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The Times:A HYSTERICAL David Blunkett told the Prison Service to call in the Army and “machinegun” inmates in order to regain control of a riot-torn jail, the former Director-General of the service claims today.The Last Ditch:Every time in future we hear a proposal for "positive discrimination", hear sentimentalism about victimhood or hear about candidate "A lists" that put minority status over

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The Lancet study, thoroughly trashed by Iraq Body Count yesterday, continues to be referenced by the BBC. Here's James Naughtie on this morning's Today:We know what the Lancet said last week - they predicted in that study that more than half a million would turn out to be the figure.

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Here's Aishah Azmi, the teaching assistant at the centre of the veil row, interviewed by the BBC's Peter Sissons.Related - Richard Littlejohn:Reading the papers these days is like being a witness at one long show trial as Left-wing politicians line up to recant just about everything they've ever believed in.The Guardian is worried by these developments (heh!). Today's leader comment prioritises

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From NIS (via Dhimmi Watch):The CNV trade union federation feels that a Muslim feast should be introduced as a bank holiday in the Netherlands. The Christian trade union federation is willing to sacrifice a Christian holiday.CNV vice chairman Rienk van Splunder wishes "to offer Muslims the freedom to practice their faith". The federation is prepared to sacrifice Whit Monday or Easter Monday for a

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The anti-war monitoring group Iraq Body Count has a issued a detailed press release rubbishing the recent Lancet study on mortality in Iraq. Here's the summary (hat tip Lopakhin):A new study has been released by the Lancet medical journal estimating over 650,000 excess deaths in Iraq. The Iraqi mortality estimates published in the Lancet in October 2006 imply, among other things, that:1. On

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As I noted yesterday, the Sunday Telegraph reported that the BBC is still trying to keep secret the findings of a 2004 report into its Middle East coverage.The corporation is mounting a landmark High Court action to prevent the release of The Balen Report under the Freedom of Information Act, despite the fact that BBC reporters often use the Act to pursue their journalism.To listen to BBC

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A couple of stories about the BBC in today's Telegraph.What do you do if a report you paid for with public funds comes up with conclusions you don't like? You use more public funds to prevent its release (hat tip USS Neverdock again):The BBC has spent thousands of pounds of licence payers' money trying to block the release of a report which is believed to be highly critical of its Middle East

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Guardian/PA:The controversy over Muslim women wearing veils escalated after the Government's race minister demanded the sacking of a Muslim teaching assistant who insisted on the garment.Phil Woolas said Aishah Azmi was "denying the right of children to a full education", and had put herself in a position where she could not "do her job".It also amounted to "sexual discrimination" for Ms Azmi to

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He despises the rest of the British blogosphere but, let’s face it, he’s in a league of his own.

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Light blogging from me today, but if you want a good read check out Peter Risdon’s account of his colourful past. I won’t spoil it for you, except to say my reaction was “Bloody hell!"(For those who don’t know, Peter organised the March for Free Expression earlier this year, and was on the radio quite a bit when Pope Benedict upset the Religion of Perpetual Outrage last month.)

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What really happened on 9/11? According to Truther Rick Siegel, it can't have been Muslim terrorists:I read an English translation of the Koran and spent some time reading the Live.com returns on a search for “definition of jihad”.Two very important government and mass media obfuscations came immediately to the surface. The first thing they hide, and most important was the fact that any follower

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I've just been having a little look at the claims made in the Johns Hopkins/Lancet study on mortality rates in Iraq. Now my aptitude for maths is low, but the survey seem utterly ridiculous to me. Take deaths by car bomb, for example. The survey sample of 300 violent deaths from March 2003 to July 2006 (page 7 of the survey) is extrapolated to approximately 600,000 for the country as a whole. Of

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Daily Mail:A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English.Codie Stott's family claim she was forced to spend three-and-a-half hours in a police cell after she was reported by her teachers...According to Codie, the five - four boys and a girl - then began talking in a language she didn't

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The new head of the British Army Sir Richard Dannatt has, understandably, caused a storm by telling the Daily Mail that we should "get ourselves out (of Iraq) sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems". Not making the headlines, though, is this part of the interview:"We can't wish the Islamist challenge to our society away and I believe that the Army, both in Iraq and

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BBC News:A man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder people in a series of bombings on British and US targets.Dhiren Barot, of north London, planned to use a radioactive "dirty bomb" in one of a series of attacks in the UK, Woolwich Crown Court heard.He intended to cause "injury, fear, terror and chaos", prosecutors said.Barot, 34, also allegedly plotted to cause explosions at several US

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"Charlie Whelan... is the only man left in the kingdom who still really believes that Gordon Brown will one day be prime minister. He is the last descendant of a once proud line, the final keeper of the one true faith." Sion Simon, The Spectator, March 14 1998.

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It's headline news in the MSM today - BBC, ITV, The Times, The Sun, The Guardian etc.It's week-old news for readers of this blog.(I emailed Guido Fawkes about this last week, but he wasn't interested. He is now. Clearly fame has dulled his instincts for a story. In fact if I had any political gossip to spread, I'd probably email me - drinkingfromhome@hotmail.co.uk )

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Light blogging today. Here are some links which might raise a chuckle.Iowahawk goes nuclear.Ace of Spades - The 10/11 Truth Movement.And best satire of the day - the Telegraph's spoof columnist "Boris Johnson" ("MP for Henley" - nice touch) with his solution to the nuclear proliferation crisis. Hilarious.(One more thing - it would appear that Dave Zucker's Albright ad is no longer censored

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Secretary of State for Communities Ruth Kelly:In future, I am clear that our strategy of funding and engagement must shift significantly towards those organisations that are taking a proactive leadership role in tackling extremism and defending our shared values.The Guardian:Bill Rammell, the higher education minister, today weighed into the debate over Muslim women wearing the veil by offering

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From Newsbusters:The video sharing site YouTube, just recently purchased by Google, has once again allowed a band of determined users to censor something they don't like.The latest casualty is a a controversial spoof political ad by a Republican filmmaker David Zucker (producer of such films as "Scary Movie 4," "Airplane," among others) which depicts former secretary of state Madeline Albright, a

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Daily Mail:At least 50,000 people each year will be denied drugs to treat Alzheimer's that cost just £2.50 a day after the NHS rationing body yesterday turned down an appeal by campaigners.Angry sufferers condemned the ban which will affect patients diagnosed with the early stages of the disease. Instead they will be told to come back when their symptoms have got worse...The ban applies only in

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A rare post praising a BBC programme.Last night's File on Four about the UK's disgraceful defence procurement system is a must-listen. To say that the procurement minister Lord Drayson is a weasel would be a terrible insult to weasels.

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(Hope this makes sense - I'm a bit pissed)Yesterday Newsnight revisited its recent story about the Defence Academy policy paper leak. The director of the academy demanded the right to reply, and Newsnight sent Paxman down to confront him.From the interview:Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely: What I want to do is put the record straight about the original Newsnight programme which portrayed

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From this morning's Today - Carolyn Quinn presses John Bolton on America's blame for the North Korean nuclear test. Bolton swats away the suggestion each time. Did she expect him to change his mind at the third time of asking? (Listen here - streaming ram) : Carolyn Quinn: What do you say to those people who say that if President Bush hadn’t spoken of the axis of evil, including North Korea in

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Via Hot Air (many links and updates) - this from Defense Tech :You're thinking, 3.6, 4.2, in that neighborhood. Seismic scales, like the Richter, are logarithmic, so that neighborhood can be pretty big.But even at 4.2, the test was probably a dud...3.58-3.7 gives you a couple hundred tons (not kilotons), which is pretty close in this business unless you're really math positive. The same equation,

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Via the Drink-soaked Trots, check out the insanity that is the Korean Friendship Association forum. And then check out the rest of the site, with its fun activities and souvenirs such as the Songs of Korea Volume 98 CD:(Hat tip Mr Eugenides)Update. A North Korean music video:

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Just about every Thought for the Day I happen to hear these days seems to be done by a Christian using his or her 3 minutes to put the case for Islam. This morning’s effort from Rev Dr Colin Morris was typical. Morris doesn’t like Muslims being called extremists, and in a disingenuous and simplistic discourse on semantics he tried to reclaim the words 'extreme' and 'radical' from those who use

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In yesterday’s Observer Nick Cohen commented on the difference in attitude BBC news presenters show when interviewing those who oppose or support the liberal consensus:Although they subject opponents of, say, abortion to rigorous cross-examination, their lust for ferocious questioning deserts them when supporters of abortion come on air. Far from being tested, they treat upholders of the liberal

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The LibDem blogs seem to have been rather silent on this:STUDENT leaders are organising a mass protest over St Andrews University’s decision to award an honorary degree to a former Iranian president who praised Hezbollah.Muhammad Khatami is to be made an honorary doctor of laws by Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat leader who is also the university’s chancellor...The decision to confer

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EU Referendum on troop resources.USS Neverdock on the stoning of women in Iran.

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The BBC’s much-hyped Robin Hood series began last night. Here's the Scotsman preview from Friday:After five bloody years fighting what he ultimately saw as a misguided conflict in the Holy Land, this Robin (played by relative newcomer Jonas Armstrong) returns to England as a disenchanted and tormented war veteran… The most telling aspect of 2006 reflected in this Robin Hood is the fact that,

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On Monday we had the story of the injured soldier accosted by a Muslim in a Birmingham hospital, and now this:MUSLIM yobs who wrecked a house to stop four brave soldiers moving in after returning from Afghanistan sparked outrage last night.The house in a village near riot-torn Windsor had BRICKS thrown through windows and was DAUBED with messages of hate.Four young Household Cavalry officers who

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Jerusalem Post:Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh collapsed on Friday during his speech at the rally in Gaza in support of Hamas and its beleaguered government.Haniyeh, who is fasting during Ramadan, stopped speaking in mid-sentence and collapsed onto aides standing next to him as he addressed tens of thousands of Palestinians that had gathered in a Gaza Strip soccer

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Melanie Phillips:The shift in Tory thinking about Israel, signalled by remarks made by the party’s foreign affairs spokesman William Hague during the Lebanon war, has claimed its first political casualty. Baroness Miller of Hendon, the Tory trade and industry spokesman in the Lords, has now resigned from the front bench in protest......The Tories are riding the tiger of anti-Israel prejudice.

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Scotsman:PRAGUE (Reuters) - Islamic extremists planned to kidnap dozens of Jews in Prague and hold them hostage before murdering them, the daily Mlada Fronta Dnes reported on Friday.The Czech Republic's leading newspaper quoted unidentified sources close to intelligence agencies as saying the captives would have been held in a Prague synagogue while the captors made broad demands that they knew

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Press Association:Cabinet Minister Jack Straw has waded further into the row over his call for Muslim women to remove their veils by saying he would like the garments to be discarded altogether.The former Foreign Secretary sparked controversy when he revealed that he asks female visitors to his constituency surgery to uncover their faces, to improve "community relations".But asked on the BBC if

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The BBC updates the story about the policeman excused Israeli embassy duty:...Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Stephenson said the move followed a risk assessment and was "not about political correctness"...Yeah, not much it wasn't.The Association of Muslim Police Officers said it had been a "welfare issue" not a political one - with the officer having a Syrian father and a Lebanese

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Just stumbled across this pisspoor spoof of Webcameron on YouTube. It was uploaded by Tom Watson, MP for West Bromwich, and features someone with an uncanny resemblance to Sion Simon, MP for Erdington. You may recall that Watson and Simon were both involved in the coup attempt against Blair last month. The failure of that venture appears to have left them with a little too much time on their

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Who to believe - the police on the ground, or the bosses? From the Telegraph:Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada" against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day.As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were "in a state of civil war"

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Daily Mail.The Last Ditch and This Sceptr'd Isle comment.Meanwhile... Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' stated recognition of Israel's right to exist is part of a "political calculation" aimed at ultimately destroying the Jewish state, a terror group leader and member of Abbas' Fatah party told WND in an interview.The leader said the Fatah party does not recognize Israel and that any

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YouTube is pulling videos critical of Islam and threatenting to close the acounts of those who post them.More at Michelle Malkin, Newsbusters, Riding Sun, and The Jawa Report.

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Here's Cameron's conference speech reduced to one second.Update. You may have seen the Time Trumpet Changes video via UKIP's spoof webcameron site, but this version has a bit more of the original programme, including the moment Dave the football fan made sure his England bracelet was visible to the cameras. Check out the furtive glance...Hat tip Max.

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[Updated - spellcheck on Daniel Hannan (not Hannon) - hat tip Rexie in the comments]Daniel Hannan in The Spectator, May 2004 (via Samizdata):Contemplate, then, the case of Hans-Martin Tillack. Mr Tillack is a respected German reporter who has written extensively about the Eurostat scandal. This convoluted affair really deserves a column to itself but, briefly, it involves allegations that

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Cameron in his conference speech just now: "Al Gore's brilliant film...."

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Airbus is in a superjumbo-sized pile of shit.Great article at Spiegel Online. Do read it all:It was beautiful -- in an almost otherworldly way. Fairies and elves hovered above the trees as wisps of fog rose into the air. Everything was bathed in shimmering blue light. The 5,000 invited guests, the crème de la crème of the European business, political and cultural worlds were enchanted as they

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Con Coughlin in the Telegraph:One of the more unpalatable truths about the Blair Government is that, while it has few qualms about placing our troops in harm's way, it does not feel any moral obligation to make sure they are properly looked after.That's the impression I get too.

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According to a CAIR press release, an American radio station has been forced to apologise for a skit about a game show called “Muslim Jeopardy” and has agreed to broadcast CAIR propaganda by way of penance:WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today thanked a Minnesota radio station for reacting positively to concerns about an on-air

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BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief today asked “Is there anything inherent in Islam that predisposes it towards violence or is it being unfairly demonised?”And who was on to defend Islam against accusations of inherent violence? None other than old two-face himself, Azzam Tamimi.Presenter Ernie Rea: Azzam, why do you think Islam is so often portrayed as a violent religion?Tamimi: People look at

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James Fergusson in the Independent on Sunday (subscription only - lifted this from the ARRSE forum):There was a message on the infantry section of arrse.co.uk from someone calling himself "Thuggerz", who was thinking about joining up. "This might sound weird., but I'm not sure if I can handle bullets flying at my head," he wrote. "How do I know if I can handle this responsibility?" "That is why

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