Friday, 2 October 2009


Friday, 2nd October 2009

Product placement

11:50am


First the Sun declares that Labour is over. Then Boris is given a cameo role in last night’s episode of the BBC soap EastEnders, thus confirming the BBC’s love-in with the politically correct Cameroonstrade-mark objectivity and sealing the Conservatives’ place in the alternative reality that is British politics. Students of British cultural and political life will keenly appreciate the creativity, modesty and statesmanlike profundity of the Mayor of London’s exchanges when he wanders into the Queen Vic pub after his bike has a puncture:

Peggy: ‘It’s such an honour to have you here, Mr Mayor!’

Boris: ‘Oh please call me Boris!’

Peggy: ...’I do so admire a man who devotes his entire life to serving society!’

Boris: ‘...If you have any ideas for how I can help Walford, here’s my card!’

Yes, a glorious new Tory age is truly dawning.

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Thursday, 1st October 2009

King Abdullah's imaginative inter-faith initiative

11:24pm


In Arab News, we learn that Bava Jain, secretary-general of the World Council of Religious Leaders, has described as

historic and bold

the two-day international inter-faith conference which opened today in Geneva. The conference is the initiative of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia who, says Bava Jain, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for an initiative which potentially

would have tremendous impact on world peace and stability if effective measures were taken to implement it.

The report tells us:

Delegates from 35 countries are taking part in the conference, which opens Wednesday. They include William Baker, president of Christians and Muslims for Peace in the US; David Rosen, director of inter-religious affairs at the American Jewish Committee; Pramjeet Singh Sarna, president of Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib; Kuniaki Kuni, president of the Association

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Wednesday, 30th September 2009

Beef-eating surrender monkeys?

7:21pm


Matthias Kuentzel has written an important piece for the Wall Street Journal explaining just why the world's ‘dialogue’ with Iran over its nuclear programme -- which is continuing with talks between five UN Security Council members plus Germany --  is such a lethal farce. First the Europeans and now the Obama administration have said they want Iran to comply with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which it is a signatory. But as Kuentzel observes, Iran is bound by its own constitution to violate that treaty, since ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Iran has been constitutionally bound to abolish the very world order that the NNPT is designed to stabilise. He writes:

An Islamist state like Iran can by definition not be considered a bona fide signatory to the NPT. The mullahs, although opposed

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