Thursday, 31 December 2009

A selection of recent media reports

£3M FOR FOREIGN CRIMINALS TO PLAY CRICKET
TAXPAYERS are being forced to pay £3million to teach criminals in Jamaica to play cricket, it emerged last...
Daily Express (31-Dec-2009)

Only one person in ten believes in Government statistics
Only one person in ten believes in Government statistics, a survey found yesterday.
Daily Mail (30-Dec-2009)

SIR ANDREW GREEN: 10 reasons our visa system is rotten to the core
We got lucky - this time. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian graduate of University College London who tried to blow up a passenger aircraft over Detroit, was turned down for a UK student Read more:
Daily Mail (30-Dec-2009)

National Archives: Thatcher bitterly opposed Asian immigrants
Margaret Thatcher complained bitterly in private about the numbers of immigrants coming to Britain from south Asia, saying they were being given council houses at the expense of "white citizens", it was disclosed...
Yorkshire Evening Post (30-Dec-2009)

UNIVERSITIES ARE NOW HOTBEDS OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM
WE like to think of our universities as havens of reflection and study institutions in which our brightest youngsters can prepare for the rest of their...
Daily Express (30-Dec-2009)

THATCHER WARNED 30 YEARS AGO THAT BRITAIN HAD TOO MANY IMMIGRANTS
MARGARET Thatcher privately voiced grave concerns about the numbers of immigrants arriving in Britain 30 years ago, confidential Cabinet papers reveal...
Daily Express (30-Dec-2009)

U.K. Visa Policy Didn't Flag Suspect
LONDON -- In March, the U.K. government said more than 400 of the country's colleges and universities were told they wouldn't be able to accept foreign students, as part of a crackdown on bogus student visas.
Wall Street Journal (29-Dec-2009)

Detroit terror attack: A murderous ideology tolerated for too long
Telegraph View: Jihadist Islamism is comparable to Nazism in many respects. The British public realises this; so do the intelligence services.
Daily Telegraph (29-Dec-2009)

Stable door security panic hands victory to the bad guys . . .
Comments (0) Add to My Stories The only surprise is that the BBC and the Guardian aren't already describing the Nigerian nutjob who tried to blow up a...
The Mail On Sunday (28-Dec-2009)

Failed terror attack shows security checks can only work if we enforce them
Student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, originally from Nigeria, has been charged by the American courts for trying to blow up a translantic passenger jet on Christmas...
Daily Mail (28-Dec-2009)

In my day, student visas were hard to get
I am simply astonished by what appears to be the total collapse of controls over student visas in Britain.
Daily Telegraph (28-Dec-2009)

High price of illegal immigrants
Exploited, overworked and housed in poor conditions. Many of them come to Cumbria for a better life but end up shut...
News & Star (28-Dec-2009)

WILL LABOUR DUMP THE MAN LEADING THEM TO OBLIVION?
SHOULD Gordon Brown be sectioned under the Mental Health Act before he does any more damage to Britain? As he enters the twilight months of his woeful premiership, he is becoming increasingly deluded, demented and dangerous. With opinion polls pointing to Labour s heaviest defeat for a generation, he...
Daily Express (28-Dec-2009)

To our eternal shame, Britain is STILL a hub for Islamic terror
So here we go again. Another international Islamic terrorist plot - and yet another British connection. The attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up an American plane was averted only by luck and...
Daily Mail (28-Dec-2009)

The student visa loophole that lets 1.5m into the country unchecked
Almost 1.5million student visas have been handed out in the past eight years. The beneficiaries included Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab - given permission by the Home Office to study mechanical engineering at University College London between 2005 and...
Daily Mail (27-Dec-2009)

BNP challenge must be met by main parties, says Howard
Former Conservative leader Michael Howard has accused all the mainstream parties of failing to do enough to challenge the British National Party. Mr Howard said it was important for politicians to confront the BNP in the run-up to the general...
BBC News (27-Dec-2009)

Terror plot raises questions over student visas
The latest airline bomb plot by a terrorist with British connections raises serious questions about the UK's controversial student visa...
Telegraph.co.uk (27-Dec-2009)

'Sangatte II' immigrant welcome centre is torched by arsonists: Police suspect furious Calais residents
Arsonists have attacked the structure of a new 'Sangatte' welcome centre which was due to open for UK-bound migrants in Calais this week. They set fire to prefabricated units which were due to house hot showers at the controversial structure close to the town's ferry...
Daily Mail (27-Dec-2009)

Otis Ferry: What I think of anti-hunting idiots
The professional huntsman and son of singer Bryan Ferry on leftie Britain, spending last Christmas in prison and Simon...
Times Online (27-Dec-2009)

THE YEAR POLITICS DIED OF SHAME
THIS WAS the year when the reputation of the political class went into...
Daily Express (27-Dec-2009)