Category Archives: Current Affairs

Inflation is actually running at 18.5 per cent…

…if you’ve read the front page headline in the ‘Daily Mirror’ today.
The Cost of Living Index, compiled with retail publication The Grocer and price comparison website Money-Supermarket.com, show the actual inflation figure is now around 18.5 per cent, at least six per cent up on last month. Food prices are up 14 per cent, fuel [...]

Knife crime panic is genuine, not imagined

Is Britain going over the top about knife crime, as Mick Hume of Spiked suggests?
Read the article.

7-7-05

On this day, we will remember those people who were lost their lives at the terrorist attacks in London three years ago.
GIVE THEIR FAMILIES HOPE. GET THEM JUSTICE.

Crime victim is ‘wrong’ on liberty

Former rape victim Jill Saward gives her reasons why she is standing as a candidate against David Davis in the forthcoming by-election In Haltemprice and Howden. (extract via Harry’s Place):
“Another ‘erosion of British liberty’ (as identified by Davis) is the National DNA Database. According to David Davis, neither this, nor the other security measures he now [...]

Are there any answers to violence among teenagers?

In the wake of yet another highly publicised teen murder, ‘Channel 4′ is showing a week-long season of programmes this week under the title, ‘Disarming Britain’.
The highlight of the season is the Street Weapons Commission, which is made up of an independent panel headed by Cherie Booth. They toured the country to find out why [...]

Fifth place -FIFTH PLACE!!!!

Yep, you’ve guessed it, Labour’s candidate in the Henley by-election scored a miserable three per cent of the vote. The Tories won, but Labour finished fifth- behind the Lib Dems, the Greens….. and the British National Party. To make things worse on Gordon Brown’s first anniversary since becoming Prime Minister, a Scottish Labour MP resigns [...]

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