Ed: a new era or more of the same?

Ed Miliband made his maiden speech to Conference yesterday as new Labour leader. Not “New” Labour leader, i.e. not new New Labour leader, just new Labour leader.
This is very important, because New Labour is dead. This Party is no more; it has ceased to be, etc…
But Mr Miliband is not a Norwegian Blue pining for [...]

Social justice? How our politicians could learn from a 6th Century BC king

I have a book called Heritage of Evidence in the British Museum, which details many items from the Old World which confirm the accuracy and authenticity of the Biblical record.
One which particularly captures my interest is known as the Cyrus Cylinder, a clay barrel-shaped object inscribed in cuneiform. It tells of the wickedness of Nabonidus, [...]

Is New Labour so different from the Taliban?

The UK’s intervention to bring democracy to other countries (i.e. install puppet governments who dance to the US regime’s tune) looks particularly disingenuous when you consider incidents like this:
Teens from Okeechobee church deported from England after running afoul of anti-terror law.
One photograph taken by a 14 year old resulted in her camera and mobile phone [...]

Go back to where you came from, Jock!

A Scottish pilot who works for British Airways doesn’t like being called ‘Jock’ by his English colleagues. I don’t blame him, but Douglas Maughan, 54, went to a tribunal to claim that he is being victimised on the grounds of race.
A colleague wrote that “Jocks should [bleep] off to that welfare state paid for by [...]