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Big Society Has No Teeth

April 17, 2011 Longrider 2

Archbishop Vincent Nichols complains that iDave’s Big Society has no teeth. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has criticised David […]

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Newspeak

April 13, 2011 Longrider 22

Orwell summed up Newspeak in “1984”. When I first read it in the late seventies, I found the idea strangely absurd. How could anyone fall […]

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Stopped Clocks

April 4, 2011 Longrider 3

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown demonstrates the stopped clock phenomenon. I have not experienced the “cultural supremacy and arrogance and hateful attitudes towards Muslims” she claims exists in […]

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I Don’t Believe It!

March 30, 2011 Longrider 2

I remember clearly –  as if it was yesterday –  that first term at school. Our infant school was an annex of the main primary school, located, […]

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Warsi on Islamophobia

January 20, 2011 Longrider 14

Baroness Warsi is to warn us against prejudice against Islam. Indeed, she says that such prejudice is now socially acceptable. Islamophobia has “passed the dinner-table […]

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Lord Help Us

October 31, 2010 Longrider 20

No one else will, it seems. The Police have been issued with a 300 page diversity book that tells them how do deal with Witches […]

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Hearing What People Say

September 17, 2010 Longrider 7

It’s interesting to see the reactions to the Pope’s comments yesterday. The comments in question being those about aggressive secularism and the UK’s stance against […]