Renewed Efforts to Make Criticism of Islam an International Crime

Hot on the heels of my last post about the threat to freedom of speech from the government’s addiction to ‘gay rights’, comes this news:
The European Union has offered to host the next meeting of the so-called Istanbul Process, an aggressive effort by Muslim countries to make it an international crime to criticize Islam.
The announcement [...]

Footballer Sacked over Twitter Jibe: The Use of ‘Homophobia’ as a Tool of Abuse of Power

It is a strange irony that the greater the number of social networking websites which appear, the less people are allowed to say before getting into trouble with the Thought Police and their snitches.
The agenda is exactly the same all over the Western World: make people feel afraid of expressing opinions that are “off-message”. It’s globalism; global tyranny. It is [...]

Is Diane Abbott racist or stupid?

Or both?
Firstly, I think the woman is horrendous, particularly for her campaign to have abortion legalised in Northern Ireland, despite the protestations from all parts of the community there. Typical socialist: we don’t care how you want to live or what you hold precious, we’re going to tell you what to do.
However, this doesn’t imply [...]

Unbelievable

You might remember the story of Colin Atkinson from a few months ago. He is the 64 year-old former soldier who ended up in serious trouble from his employers, Wakefield and District Housing (WDH), for keeping a palm cross on his company van’s dashboard.
Now another Christian, Adrian Smith, who works for another housing trust, Trafford [...]

Iranians may hang Christian pastor for ‘apostasy’ by tomorrow

Cranmer writes,
It really is quite incredible. Last week, a convicted murderer, Troy Davis, was finally executed in the United States, and it seemed as though the entire British (and EU) Establishment arose to denounce the barbarism. Even Pope Benedict XVI appealed for clemency.
Yet today, Iran is scheduled to hang a Christian pastor for ‘apostasy’, and [...]

Why We Need A New 9/11 Investigation

This was my guest post on Subrosa’s blog this morning..
I was out and about on September 11th 2001 and the first inkling I had that the attacks had taken place was on seeing a picture of one of the Twin Towers on fire on a newspaper stand in the centre of Glasgow [...]

The Riots, their far-reaching consequences, the blame, the solution

It’s about time I blogged on the rioting. It seems to be quite a complex issue with potentially far-reaching consequences, one of which is the further undermining of the freedom of the internet. Social networking sites were used to organise the rioting and looting and the Met considered shutting down Twitter, but discovered that they [...]

Weird Laws From Around the World

I will be writing about more serious stuff later, of which there seems to be an abundance at the moment, but we all need a laugh, whatever’s going on. One of my favourite things to do on the internet is find out how people have come to this blog. This morning, someone arrived at this [...]

The news has become so predictable, is there any point in blogging?

I haven’t posted for a fortnight. I look at the news and the amount of negative stuff bogs me down. I sometimes wonder if there is any point in continuing to blog when I could be either relaxing or putting the time into my business, either of which would benefit me. But how can you [...]

Secret Service interrogates 13 year-old over Facebook comment

This was not in China or Burma, but in Washington state, USA.
A Tacoma seventh grader faced federal interrogation at school for what he posted on his Facebook page.  His mom said it all happened without her knowledge or permission.
After Osama bin Laden was killed, 13-year-old Vito LaPinta posted an update to his Facebook status that [...]