Wednesday, 3 February 2010

A selection of recent media reports

I would never have thought it. To be caught out not noticing a double meaning or innocent innuendo. I must be getting old. So let me say that I used the expression camp Cameron solely in the sense of Mr Cameron and those in his camp. (Sorry, Dave, I do not like to offend people inadvertently. I usually do it deliberately.) 
Daily Telegraph (03-Feb-2010)

France's prime minister Francois Fillon has said he will sign a decree denying nationality to a man who acknowledged forcing his French wife to wear a burka-style veil over her...
Daily Express (03-Feb-2010)

A Belfast council worker from Zimbabwe has been left stateless after losing a judicial review against a decision to confiscate her British...
BBC News Southern Counties (03-Feb-2010)

THE Government is facing a series of national strikes by hundreds of thousands of civil servants in the run-up to the general election in a bitter row over cuts to compensation payments, it was announced...
Edinburgh Evening News (03-Feb-2010)

Immigration is the issue jostling with the economy when voters are asked what concerns them most. Labour's private polling and doorstep canvassing pick it...
Mirror.co.uk (03-Feb-2010)

90% very worried about population of 70 million Deep concern about cultural identity and impact on services Five times the number of responses normally seen 
Balanced Migration (03-Feb-2010)

I was racially abused for the first time ever, in an area where some residents see no alternative to the party's blame...
Guardian Unlimited - Comment is Free (03-Feb-2010)

Latest Government statistics suggest the number of people living in Northamptonshire by 2023 will be 50,000 fewer than predicted just four years...
Northampton Chronicle and Echo (03-Feb-2010)

DORSET Police failed to include any category of crime that showed an increase including burglary in a statement on their latest performance...
Dorset Echo (03-Feb-2010)

An illegal immigrant has been jailed for more than eight years after he shot a man twice in a Leeds...
Yorkshire Evening Post (03-Feb-2010)

IMMIGRATION must be slashed by three-quarters to keep Britain s population below 70 million by 2030, a senior Tory MP warned...
Daily Express (03-Feb-2010)

More than 250,000 public sector workers are to be balloted on strike action over what their union says are "macho" government cuts to redundancy...
BBC News (03-Feb-2010)

ANOTHER five years of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister will reduce Britain to a parlous and irrecoverable...
Daily Express (03-Feb-2010)

European Court of Human Rights Published February 3, 2010 Khan v United Kingdom (Application No 47486/06) Before L. Garlicki, President, and Judges Sir Nicolas Bratza,...
Times Online (03-Feb-2010)

Britain risks losing its national identity if immigration is not dramatically reduced, a major women's campaigning group claims. The Townswomen's Guild, established when women first won the right to vote, said it had been overwhelmed by responses when it asked its members' views on...
Daily Mail (03-Feb-2010)

An MP has called the wearing of burkas the religious equivalent of "going round with a paper bag over your head". In a parliamentary debate, Conservative MP Philip Hollobone said it was "offensive" for women to cut off face-to-face contact with other...
BBC News (02-Feb-2010)

Nicholas Soames, MP claimed the government has attempted to "dodge the numbers" to camouflage the failure of its immigration policy.
Parliament (02-Feb-2010)