Tuesday, 17 November 2009

A selection of recent media reports

What's going to be in the Queen's speech?
Key bills expected to be in the government's programme of legislation, together with a summary of what the Conservatives would do if they were in...
Guardian Unlimited - Politics (16-Nov-2009)

Londoners must join forces for the Battle of Barking
Earlier this year, while preparing a Radio 4 series on Britishness, I spent a day in Leicester interviewing its citizens about national identity. Much the most striking encounter I had was with a young Indian-born...
Evening Standard (16-Nov-2009)

BRITISH JUSTICE HAS BEEN TURNED ON ITS HEAD BY LABOUR
THE famous figure of Justice at the Old Bailey must be weeping tears of despair behind her blindfold. Instead of protecting our society, the legal system has now become a conspiracy against the British public. We live in a land where the state metes out punishment to the innocent, neglects the vulnerable and.
Daily Express (16-Nov-2009)

FURY AT CASH FOR EVIL NANNY
A SADISTIC baby killer who was caged for slaughtering a 17-month-old boy was sent back to Malaysia with £4,500 of taxpayers cash. Immigrant Agnes Wong, 29, got a five-year sentence in 2008 for the horrific killing of the toddler she was...
Daily Star (16-Nov-2009)

I'm sorry, Gordon, but if you must apologise, what about the things that ARE your fault?
Before I start, please let me apologise. For... oooh, I dont know, just about everything including what follows below, along with anything I might have done in the past which might conceivably have damaged or offended...
Daily Mail (16-Nov-2009)

Fake payslips bought on the web at the centre of mortgage fraud racket worth millions
All it took was a few clicks of the mouse and a payment of £35 for an Observer reporter to obtain a counterfeit payslip over the internet which would allow her to commit mortgage fraud worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Observer (15-Nov-2009)

Killer childminder was paid to go back to home country
AN IMMIGRANT childminder who killed a toddler in her care was given £4,500 to return to Malaysia after she was released from prison, it was revealed...
Manchester Evening News (15-Nov-2009)

Griffin to contest Barking seat
BNP leader Nick Griffin has said he is going to stand in the Westminster constituency of Barking, east London, in the next general election. In June, the party won its first two seats in the European...
BBC News (15-Nov-2009)

WHY MR BROWN'S CONDOLENCE LETTER WAS JUST AN EMPTY GESTURE
IT WAS what popular philosopher Malcolm Gladwell calls a tipping point : the moment when public opinion about something or someone suddenly flips over and becomes almost the opposite of what it was...
Daily Express (15-Nov-2009)

KILLER CHILDMINDER PAID TO GO HOME
An immigrant childminder who killed a toddler in her care was given £4,500 to return to Malaysia after she was released from prison. Agnes Wong, 29, was convicted of the manslaughter of 17-month-old Hugo Wang at Manchester Crown Court in January last...
Daily Star (15-Nov-2009)

Irish government to pay immigrants to go home
Recession-crippled Republic offers cash to non-EU nationals who agree to leave...
Guardian.co.uk (15-Nov-2009)

Anti-immigrant Italians find a new foe: food from abroad
Kebab shops come under attack as the Northern League demands bans on foreign...
Guardian.co.uk (15-Nov-2009)

Labours heartland wont be fooled on immigration again
There is something a little pitiful watching Gordon Brown tell the country how worried he is about immigration, and how it must not be a taboo issue. Like watching a paralytic drunk explaining in slurred tones how he will never touch another drop, and all the while you can smell the paint-stripper on..
Times Online (15-Nov-2009)

A minefield of myths called immigration
The politics of immigration is a minefield. Most politicians, therefore, avoid it, except for those on the extreme fringes who want to detonate a bitter argument on...
Daily Mail (14-Nov-2009)