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As concerns grow about crime and anti-social behaviour among young people we not a trent of rising violence among mechanical street furniture. Is this the end of civilisation as we know it. Has the rule of law finally given way to the tyranny of bureaucracy?

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Escalator Crime Escalates
by fatsally
@ 2009-05-15
first posted at Boggart Blog, the UK's top comedy blog

The Barnsley Chronicle (Town Edition) features pictures on its front page of two elderly gentleman who have apparently had a bit of a coming together with a rogue escalator. Jack Faulkner, the earliest victim commented, "Someone is going to get killled."

Boggartblog despatched our BBC Reporter to find out just what is going on in the world of escalators.

Friday lunchtime and Barnsley town centre is reasonably busy. People are going about their daily business; shopping, whinging, hanging about, avoiding eye contact with the Big Issue seller and his dog, swearing, spitting and quietly dying on the benches. It is just like any other run down town centre in Britain.

But things are not quite the same in Barnsley. Here the shoppers are faced with a new wave of terror.
All over town the public tread warily around, and even more warily onto, the escalators.
For the escalators in Barnsley have turned killer.

Having carefully fabricated my expenses claim before the current investigation, should anything happen to me, I approach a silent, hulking escalator opposite Boots.

I ask the escalator what he thinks about reports of escalators turning on innocent people.

"Well, that's a matter of opinion. You say innocent, but there again you wouldn't like them standing on you all day long. Most people are all right, but then there's the youths that run up you the wrong way. Plays havoc with your moving handrails, that does.Then there's the fatties...don't get me started on the fatties

I was investigated once coz I'm not very wide, see, barely two foot across, I'm just designed for single occupancy.So Mrs. Lardarse gets on and she gets stuck, doesn't she?

Is that my fault? No, any fool can see how wide I am, but who gets investigaed by health and safety Eh? Muggins here, that's who. That's why I'm not actually moving. I'm just a steel- stepped, rubber-handrailed staircase now, with a width warning displayed for all to see. It makes you want to weep, it does.

And did I get a chance to claim back?

She fair crippled one of my steel steps she did, and she didn't half make my drivebelt whine, I can tell you. Could I get compensation for my injuries? Could I eckerslike.

Now me, I'm old school, I was installed back in the seventies, I've got some professional pride. I've got standards. I'm here to do a job and you have to take the rough with the smooth, I say.

But some of them younger ones, well they're not made the same. They take offence and then, well, people get hurt, know what I mean? A toe stubbed here, a friction burn there, and they get away with it most of the time. Just makes them bolder really. I don't know what the world is coming to, I really don't."

I make my way across town to the shopping centre where the escalators tend to hang out. There are two groups of them today, wearing the same uniform of rubber handrails , steel steps and perspex panels.

They huddle in pairs, sneering at members of the public who get too close.

Cautiously I approach one pair.

"What are you lookig at?" the down escalator demands.

"I was wondering about whether you let any people ride on you?"

"Ere, did you hear that. It wants to know if we let people ride on us!" the escalator calls out to its mates. There is a sussurant sniggering from the escalators.

"Why don't you step on and find out?" shouts the up escalator. "If I can remeber what to do that is. No-one's stepped on me in days!"

"Can't think why," screams back one of the downs, "unless it's the blood spatter up your perspex!" it cackles.

"Oh give over, that's ketchup or upchuck, can't remember which. Honest mister. I never hurt anyone, we just like to give them a bit of a fright now and then. Livens things up a bit, it does get a bit boring being stuck in the same place.

Ere I'll tell you what, if you want the real killer escalator get yourself up to the general hospital, that's where he hangs out, the nasty one that does the old men. Outpatients, that's where you'll find 'im."

I thank them and head off toward the hospital.

I wonder if I am being set up for a joke, after all a killer escalator in the Outpatients department?

The Outpatients department is situated to the right of the main entrance. You approach through double doors, automatic, which seem to snap shut too quickly for comfort.

A large atrium awaits and there, glowering in the centre, is a large pair of escalators.

As I stand at the bottom it seems an awfully long way up, the people on the next floor looking like ants as they mill around trying to find the correct line to take them to their appointments.

I join the queue and step tentatively onto the escalator, my hand lightly on the rail. As we glide smoothly upwards I start to breathe easier, this is just an escalator after all.

But then I glance at the approaching floor above.

An elderly man with a stick tries to get on to the down escalator.

He steps forwards, appears to hesitate, puts his stick out to where the step was, and slowly pitches forward, tumbling down the moving staircase, scattering other users like ten pins. A scream alerts an official and the escaltor is swiftly halted.

Staff rush to help the gentleman, whilst the area is cleared.

"What did you do that for?" I ask, my impartiality wiped away by the sheer callousness with which this piece of machinery has just wreaked havoc.

"It's in my contract."
"What do you mean it's in your contract?"
"Government targets. You need to be treating so many elderly people, but some of these old codgers will go on forever with never more than a fresh supply of batteries for their hearing aids.

The geriatrc wards are practically empty.

So I got this contract. Every now and again, give a little judder, distract the attention, Bob's your uncle.

A few bruises, the odd fracture, couple of nights on the ward. Nurses are kept on, cleaners, caterers, doctors meet their targets, victims get compensation everybody's happy."

"It seems a bit of a dangerous way to go about things. People are worried someone will get killed."

"Nah, no chance of that, I'm a professional. I know what I'm doing.
Wouldn't want word getting out though...would we laddie?
That wouldn't do at all, oh no.
On your way out are you?
Well remember, I'm the only way down, do I make myself clear?
I made my excuses and left, carefully.

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The Rev. Returns

Tomorrow night the fabulous Tom Hollander (In The Loop), Olivia Colman (Twenty Twelve) and Steve Evets (Looking for Eric) return to BBC Two at 9pm in the new series of Rev.

So we cornered Steve, who plays the heavy-drinking, unemployable lost soul Colin, and offered him a packet of crisps in exchange for an interview. And he said yes! But then, they were pretty posh crisps.

What do you think is the appeal of Rev?

I think the appeal of Rev. is mainly down to Tom and Olivia because of the way they've made this married couple so real. It’s lovely to see the human failings they both have without it turning into Terry and June (Er, the boss is coming round for dinner and my promotion depends on it. What’s that? Next door's dog has stolen the chicken? Oh no! You run out and try to buy one while I pretend you're cooking it in the kitchen...etc…etc)

We've come a long way in sitcomland - I think if the main characters are real then everyone around them echoes that and just falls into place. Plus it's a blessing that we don't have a laughter track (the lord moves in mysterious ways)!

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What made you want the part of Colin?

When my agent told me I had an audition for Rev., I didn’t have a clue what it was. They sent over a couple of scenes for me to look at and, as I recall, they were both bench scenes between Adam and Colin. I fell in love with both characters straight away and made it my business to learn the scenes word for word so I could put the character over without stumbling and reading from pages of script.

What I loved about Colin was his naivety, his bluntness, his violent undercurrent and the sense that he desperately wants to belong to something in his lonely little drink-sodden world. I did ok because they then asked me back for a recall and I got the job!

How would you describe Colin?

Colin is a lost sheep trying to make sense of a world that has dealt him a bad hand. He’s not the brightest person and doesn’t always think before he acts. But I think his heart is in the right place and he’s very malleable. He's always looking for the next step to enlightenment and I think God gives him a sense of belonging and makes him feel less lonely.

Were there any amusing off camera moments you can share?

When I came back for the audition recall I was wearing an old duffel coat that I had bought at a festival. I threw it on the floor and did the scenes again. Then Peter Cattaneo (the director) said, “Can you do it again with the coat on?” So I did. And I got the job.

When I went for a costume fitting the Wardrobe Ladies had bought three duffel coats and the conversation went like this:

“Can you try this coat on?” I did.

“Can you put your one on again?” I did.

“Now try the second one on.” I did.

“Yours again please.” I did.

“Now try the third one on please.” I did.

Then they both stood there looking sheepishly at the floor and not speaking. So I said, “Would you like me to wear my own coat?”

And they replied, practically in unison. “Oh would you mind?” Those ladies were so polite. Apart from keeping me warm at many a festival, I think that coat swung the job for me.

What’s your favourite line or scene in the last series?

My all time favourite scene in the first series is in Episode 6 when Adam has practically lost his faith and is stumbling around drunk with a kebab, trying to pick a fight with some kids. The policeman more or less arrest him and take him to give the last rights to a dying woman, who is holding on till her vicar gets there.

It's stunning how that scene shifts gear from a drunken vicar questioning his own faith and meaning in life, to a man who has to find it in himself to come through for those in need. Not only is it a testament to the writing but the way Tom Hollander shifts gear in such a realistic way. It’s practically a master class in acting and is so beautiful and tender. I wept.

What was the worst bit about filming series 2?

The worst bits were the days I wasn’t on set. I just loved being there and soaking it all up. When I had time off I didn’t know what to do with myself. So that just shows what a lack of imagination I have!

The second series of Rev. begins Thursday night on BBC Two at 9pm.

Publ.Date : Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:25:00 +0000

Mark Watson Addresses the Nation

Mark Watson as... Mark Watson

Last Wednesday Mark Watson returned to the airwaves with his new show for Radio 4 - the aptly titled Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation, featuring the fabulous Tim Key (winner of the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Awards ) and Tom Basden (Armstrong & Miller).

So naturally we cornered Mark by the lifts and asked him to write a blog about it!

Mark writes:

At last I’ve got five minutes to reflect on Wednesday night’s antics. When some people say ‘take five minutes to think’ they actually mean take a nice hour with a cup of tea. But unhappily thanks to my remarkable current schedule, it really is five minutes. Still, that’s just about long enough to conclude that it went reasonably well.

There were a couple of unforeseen setbacks, like the bit where a microphone made the world’s worst noise for a while; and a not-quite-foreseen moment when the public voted for the ending to the show which we had not predicted.

But that of course is precisely the fun of doing it live. As you’ll be able to verify if you were there, I squawked and flailed in my usual manner and kept yelping 'THIS IS LIVE!!!!!' as my brain continually registered that thought. I was slightly less madcap than in the pilot though, which I think went equally well overall.

Tim Key and Tom Basden... hard at work (ish)

The usual (but heartfelt) thanks go to everyone who made the trip to Broadcasting House. It would be a grim experience to do it live with anything less than a very enthusiastic audience. Plus those laughs fill the time. Although once again, it was a case of speeding up rather than trying to pad things out. (Actually, within the space of ten minutes we went from being worryingly behind schedule to worryingly ahead of it, but I’ll spare you the details because my heart is starting to accelerate all over again just remembering it.)

I guess if we had gone short I could always have filled the silence with, say, some jokes. That is what my job’s meant to be. But it doesn’t always feel like that when the nation’s Radio 4 listeners are poised by their radios and you hear those bleeps and it all begins. Still, it’s for precisely that sort of ‘aaargh!' moment that you take on a live show.

If you didn’t listen – I can only assume it's because you were kidnapped etc – you can still catch the first episode on iPlayer. I won’t give away any spoilers but WATCH OUT FOR THE GLADIATOR.

SPOILER ALERT!

Tune in for more Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation on Wednesdays at 11pm on Radio 4.

Publ.Date : Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:05:00 +0000

Comedy Talent Search - Laugh Track

BBC Comedy Commissioning and BBC Writersroom have joined forces for a second nationwide talent search to find new comedy gold. If you have a big studio sitcom brewing in your mind and can tell original stories, invent characters and catchphrases that can make a live audience laugh, then send in your script.

This is an opportunity not to be missed - you may get the chance of your work performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at our Sitcom Showcase at the Studio in MediaCity, Salford. You could also be in line for a comedy masterclass on how to write studio sitcoms, plus an intensive week away developing your idea hand-in-hand with BBC comedy producers and established comedy writing talent.

The amazing Dawn French will be on the panel of judges. Cheryl Taylor (Controller, Comedy Commissioning), who judged last year's BBC writersroom comedy talent search says: "I was thrilled last year by the number of very funny and original scripts that we were asked to judge. It was a pleasure to read all of the short listed projects as was having the opportunity to meet some of their very talented authors."

The deadling for entries is Wednesday, 21 March 2012. For information on how to enter, visit the Writersroom website.

Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:52:39 +0000

Late 'n' Live Guide to Comedy

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For over 25 years, Edinburgh Fringe audiences have gathered, like Romans to the Coliseum, to watch comedians fight against hecklers at the Gilded Balloon venue and it’s Late 'n' Live event.

These people are renowned as the comedy world’s most unpredictable audience; never sedated by a famous name: they expect laughs or they give better than they get.

Now for the first time, with narration by Late 'n' Live veteran performer Lynn Ferguson, and interviews with other comedians who performed there, exclusive archive footage of Late 'n' Live can be revealed to those who never made it to the post-midnight show. Or indeed weren’t sober enough to remember it.

Amongst those taking part in the programme are Russell Brand, Johnny Vegas, Jason Byrne, Zoe Lyons, Shappi Khorsandi, Caroline Rhea, Ross Noble and Rich Hall.

And now we welcome on to the blog, the woman behind both Late 'n' Live and the Gilded Balloon venue, Karen Koren, to tell us more.

Karen Koren remembers...

Many a wild night was had. Johnny Vegas would have me running around getting him concoctions from the bar. He would inevitably throw up on stage and induce many an audience member to do the same. All I can say is it was no fun for my staff who had to try and clean up after him, as it made them sick as well. Luckily the tv viewing public will not be exposed to that sort of thing in the next few shows, however, there is plenty that is funny or bizarre and a bit scary.

Next Monday’s show is about the first timers: Jason Byrne with his sticks, he always had loads of props his first time. Rich Fulcher was brilliant as Eleanor – the Tour Whore! Then there is Shappi Khorsandi’s first and only time. Tim Minchin too, who says Late’n’Live was not for him but there were plenty who it did work for. Why are there so many comics afraid of performing at Late’n’Live – is it because it really will make them a better comic? Or is it too much of a ritual for some comics to get through? It would seem so!

Late 'n' Live Guide to Comedy, BBC One (Scotland) Monday 11.05 pm

Or watch on iPlayer

Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:18:00 +0000

Jesting About 2 - The Results

We've just heard from the folks at Jesting About 2, the North East-focused initiative which gives people the opportunity to pitch to BBC commissioners, and they were very excited because they're ready to reveal the results of their search for up-and-coming comedy talent.

This is what they told us:

Over 600 comedy scripts and sketches were submitted, from which 31 talented individuals have been selected to take part.

Candidates were selected by a panel of BBC commissioners and include Game of Thrones and Ideal actor Ben Crompton, Teesside brothers James and Jack Boughen, and Lesley Gair, who recently left a career in retail to concentrate on writing and whose partner John Scott has also been selected. The full list can be seen below.

The successful applicants will attend workshops and receive support from BBC commissioners, executive producers and on-screen talent to develop their ideas into pilots over the next three months.

Last year’s Jesting About resulted in successes such as an animation commissioned for BBC Comedy Online, and a sitcom script optioned by Pett Productions, the indie run by Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and Lisa Clark.

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Ross Noble reveals one of his favourite heckles - from Jesting About 1.

BBC Creative Head of Comedy, Simon London, said "we've been overwhelmed by the response we've had to our ideas and briefs" and Peter Salmon, Director of BBC North, added "we've discovered some new and authentic comedy voices, and can’t wait to see their ideas turned into reality".

Agnes Wilkie, Creative Director at Northern Film & Media is confident that the combined investment and commitment "will produce a fantastic return of new, North East focused commissions across the three strands”.

And so, without further ado, here are the names of the successful candidates!

TV Comedy - creating a pilot sitcom for BBC One

Jamie Diffley (Whitley Bay)
Lee Henman (Cleveland)
Alex Reid Milligan (Northumberland)
Robert Rodriquez (Chesterfield, Derbyshire)
Jessica Silcock (Barnsley)
Naomi Smith (Macclesfield, Cheshire)
Ian Skelton (County Durham)

Radio - creating a half hour sketch show for BBC Newcastle and BBC Tees

Jack Boughen (Teesside)
James Boughen (Teesside)
Alex Collier (Sunderland)
Victoria Cook (Whitley Bay)
John Cooper (County Durham)
Ben Crompton (Newcastle)
Lesley Gair (Newcastle)
Janet Plater (Newcastle)
Andy Fury (Northumberland)
David Williams (Northumberland)
Steve Bugeja (Manchester)
Mike Whalley (Stockport)

TV Entertainment - creating a pilot for a weekly live comedy and entertainment series for BBC Three

Will Cooper (Newcastle)
Owen Cooper (Newcastle)
Hal Branson (Newcastle)
Charlie Richmond (Newcastle)
John Scott (Newcastle)
Alex Collier (Sunderland)
Rob Gilroy (Gateshead)
Alex Oates (Whitley Bay)
Guy Emery (Whitley Bay)
Gavin Webster (Tyne and Wear)
Mark Meiklejohn (Edinburgh)
Robert Girvan (Edinburgh)
Peter Donachie (Edinburgh)

Congratulations to everyone involved, now the hard work begins!

Publ.Date : Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0000

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Not long ago, even though the nation had largely abandoned churchgoing, to describe oneself as an atheist carried a certain stigma. In the nineteen eighties and nineties that receded however as regular worshippers in Britain comprised just 6% of the population. Now however, thanks to militant atheism, the stigma is on the way back.
New Toilet Computer Game Will Really Piss People Off
Digital games colsole and game maker Sega is hoping to make a spash by nstalling video games in men's toilets. It could only happen in Japan of course: the firm is planning to install game consoles called "Toylets" at urinals for men in bars around ...
Immigrants Who Have Never Paid UK Tax Or National Insurance Claiming Billions A Year In Benefits

While the bleeding hearts of the "progressive left" wail and gnash their teeth over the plight of the world's poor a new report reveals hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to this country on the pretext of studying or visiting relatives are living in fine style thanks to our lax approach to illegals and the incomptence of those who run the benefit system.
Are Feminists More Evil Than Nazis
A campaign by feiminists and lefties to get t shirts will slightly sexist slogans withdrawn from sale shows how authoritarian the progressive left are prepared to be in imposing their warped moral values on everybody.
The Decline And Fall Of The Bureaucratic Empire
The societies we live in, the companies we work for and by extension our lives are run by people who tell us they are much cleverer than we are. This is why we need elites and why, we are told, we must tolerate their high living, their jollies off to luxury resorts where they may focus their minds fully on how better to exploit us, use our money filched from tax revenues that should be spent to our benefit, on high class hookers. The point is we the ordinary punters are, according to these people, simply too stupid to ...
Hungary Faces Bankruptcy and Default as EU loses patience
The European Commission has launched legal action against Hungary's Fidesz government for violations of European Union treaty law and erosion of democracy, marking a dramatic escalation in the war of words with the EU's enfant terrible. "We'll use all our powers to make sure that Hungary complies with the rules of ..."
Drop in UK inflation Is Not Good News
The Office for National Statistics has reported a sharp fall in the Consumer Prices Index - down from 4.8 per cent in November to 4.2 per cent last month - was the sharpest drop in the annual rate since December 2008 when the UK was in recession and VAT was reduced. Government ministers and propagandists will try to talk this up as a sing that the economy is starting to recover. We should be wary however, in the current economic circumstances a drop in inflation, especially one this rapid in what is traditionally the best month of the year for retailers, is not good news ...
Google Has Comptely Forgotten 'Don't Be Evil' As The World Domination Agend Gathers Pace
At last Google has been caught stealing information from a business rival rather than private induviduals. Will people now wise up to these scumsucking pirates of the internet search engine world.
There Are Some Very Weird People Out There
A list of the strangest items left behind in bedrooms by guests at
hotels in the Travelodge budgret hotel chain is mind boggling. One has to wonder what sort of freaky things these people had been getting up to.
The Lard Hadron Collider
As excitements grows in the scientific community about the imminent announcement from the Large Hadron Collider team at CERN about how they have nearly found something interesting, Xavier Connolly explains why the whole thing is just a science a scam.
Euro Zone Gazes Into The Abyss As France Loses Its AAA Credit Rating
Stock markets fell sharply in late trading on Friday (13 January - oo-er) and the Euro zone single currency plunged against all other major currencies as Standard and Poor�s cut France�s AAA rating. Habitual debtor Italy saw its long-term rating dropped by two notches, along with Spain, Portugal and Cyprus. Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia had their ratings lowered by one notch. A surprise victim of ...
Statistics, Graphs and Hockey Sticks
A poem about the famous hocvkey stick graph and the science scam it was a frony for. Posted now as a valedictory celebration because US climate monitoring agncies NASA and NOAA have at last admitted the global average temperature has risen only marginally over the past few decades.
Osborne Says Cuts To Across The Board Child Benefit Will Go Ahead.
Chancellor George Osborne has said the Coalition government's plan to cut child benefit for higher rate taxpayers will go ahead but after ministers' hints the policy could be made "fairer" Mr Osborne has agreed to review the plans. While Lib Deems and Labour MPs, the unthinking droids of the politically correct left wail and gnash their teeth at the prospect of any benefit being cut ever and the idiot fringe lefties at ...
Euro Zone Crisis: The Decline And Fall Of The Bureaucratic Empire
Euro zone leaders continue to insist the single currency must be saved even though any fool would recognise a dead parrot when they see one. So why are they prepared to sacrifice the furture for the single currency project. And was it ever really about money?

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Unemployment at 8.3% Still Leaves A Vast And Destructive Jobs Deficit Robert Reich, The Guardian
The most significant aspect of January's jobs report is political. The fact that America's labor market continues to improve is good news for the White House. But as a practical matter, the improvement is less significant for the American workforce.
President Obama's only chance for rebutting Republican claims that he's responsible for a bad economy is to point to a positive trend. Voters respond to economic trends as much as ...
Much Media Ado About Nothing What connects seemingly disparate works such as The Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, Mad Men, and Seinfeld? It is the philosophy of nihilism, first popularized by Friedrich Nietzsche in the late 19th century. But in the last few decades, how did it become the dominant worldview of Hollywood? Dawn Of The Ice Age Signals The End Of The Global Warming Scam Back then, the media and activists trumpeted the arrival of a new ice age, with the specter of ice sheets and glaciers covering half the northern hemisphere, and brutal winters in the remaining ice-free zones. The fact that the media and popular culture and academia have veered from one panic-inducing disaster scenario to another one which completely contradicts the first one is funny enough in its own right. But reading The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age opened my eyes to an even more significant aspect ...
Hundreds of Independent Bookshops Face Closure
Hundreds of independent bookshops could be forced to close unless local authorities do more to support them, a leading retail group has warned. The Booksellers Association (BA), which represents 3,500 independent bookshops across the UK, has written to almost 400 council chiefs urging them to do more to support their local high streets or risk ...
Solar Panels Subsidy Was The Most Ridiculous Green Scheme Deramed Up
A plan to subsidise solar panels on homes was �one of the most ridiculous schemes ever dreamed up�, a Government minister has said.
Lord Marland, an Energy minister, hit out at the cost of so-called feed-in tariffs, which the Government has axed as part of the cuts programme. Last week Court of Appeal ruled that the sudden axing of the tariffs ...
Goodbye Great Britain
Recently, there have been two powerful challenges to the conventional wisdom about the United States. First, Robert Kagan published a lengthy essay in The New Republic, arguing that predictions of America's decline as a global power are woefully premature. .Is it possible, I found myself wondering, to do something similar for Britain? Robert Colvile has a go in this Daily Telegraph article ...
Our rising debt levels are becoming unsustainable � soon we may be talking about wealth confiscation (By Daniel Knowles, Daily Telegraph)
Debt, debt, debt; we�re drowning in it. This morning, the Office for National Statistics published the latest estimates of public sector borrowing. Though borrowing is falling faster than anticipated, thanks to the fact that spending cuts are finally beginning to kick in, the national debt has risen to 64.2 per cent of GDP. More significantly,�
The Obama administration knifes Britain in the back again over the Falklands - By Nile Gardiner World
In yet another display of disdain for the Anglo-American Special Relationship, the Obama administration has weighed in on the mounting tensions between Great Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. Just two days after Prime Minister David Cameron issued a robust statement in the House of Commons vowing to defend the sovereignty of the Falklands,�
Drones In The Hands Of The Paparrazi - It's an ethical minefield
America's use of drones for targeted killings is serious enough. But commercial and law enforcement uses are on the horizon. Whether you view them as model aeroplanes for grown-ups or the handmaidens of the killer robot, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are taking off in earnest. ...
The Observer uncritically regurgitates Trotskyist smears against Katharine Birbalsingh- By Toby Young, Daily Telegraph
There�s a disgraceful attempt to smear Katharine Birbalsingh in this morning�s Observer. Under the headline �Katharine Birbalsingh criticised over �wasteful� free school project�, the paper�s policy editor Daniel Boffey tries to create the impression that there�s growing local opposition to the Michaela Community School � Birbalsingh�s free school � which is due to open in�
We�re being sent the bill for the euro crisis again � this time by the IMF - By Daniel Hannan First it was individual banks; then whole industries; then entire countries; now it�s the world. Western leaders have reacted to the failure of each bailout by decreeing a bigger one. Unable to admit their mistake, slaves to the defunct economist whose thinking dominates our economics faculties and central banks, they act like so many Nick Leesons,�
The Three Parent Family More on the progressive left's war on the family and the scientific dictaorship's attempts to dehumanize us all. Babies with three biological parents could be born within three years. Scientists have come up with an IVF technique that uses the undamaged DNA of a third party when couples risk giving their children a genetic conditions such as muscular dystrophy or ataxia. The Wellcome Trust has funded the research (the figures vary between �4 million and six million �
As Obama Positions Himself For A War In Syria We Learn That Like Gadaffi, Assad Is Popular With His People
Most Syrians back President Assad, but you'd never know from western mediaAssad's popularity, Arab League observers, US military involvement: all distorted in the west's propaganda war. Suppose a respectable opinion poll found that most Syrians are in favour of Bashar al-Assad remaining as president, would that not be major news? Well one did and we never heard a word of it in the Obama felching western media ...
Bullshit Sherlock
While other blogs are full of how great the cliff - faller ending of Sherlock Holmes was I felt a bit let down. The fake suicide was telegraphed all through the show. And the coda assured us Sherlock had survived. We should not forget of course it was the habit of ...
Will bringing back grammar schools boost social mobility? by Toby Young Daily Telegraph
The possibility that England may shortly see its first new grammar school in over 50 years has, predictably enough, re-opened the debate about selective education. Yesterday, for instance, Allison Pearson came down firmly in favour, while Fiona Millar shot back with an instant rebuttal. I�ll get into that argument in a moment, but first let�s be�
So Why Read Books Anymore
There is great �truth and beauty� in Homer�s Iliad, but I would not try to make his sale on such platitudes. Gibbon�s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remains a classic. But I confess it can be hard to get through. Conrad�s Victory or Knut Hamsun�s Growth of the Soil, if authored by writer X this year, would be trashed on Amazon.So what are the reasons, in this age of ...
Eric Holder and the Chicago Way In America Obama's Brownshirts are getting hysterical as they try to make race the major issue in the election campaign.
Dystopian Prophecies Are Coming True - The Government Will Soon Choose Our Wives
Thinking of this entertaining new literary award � �the Hatchet Job of the Year� � it was natural to turn to Macaulay�s Essays, for few reviewers have ever been less reluctant to wound. I had in mind two long review-essays, one on Robert Montgomery�s Poems, the other on The State in its relations with ... FOR OLDER COMMENTS from our blog index click here. MORE Featured posts

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