Friday 16 May 2008 15:13
Two items on yesterday's TV news both shocked me and made me ashamed to live in England. Football fans leaving an UEFA Cup match in Manchester went on the rampage and attacked police, nearly kicking one policeman to death. And an item on girl crime showed young women in states of near total inebriation fighting and kicking almost as viciously as the football hooligans. Why are the British such violent drunks and why is nothing being done to stop it? Read more...
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Saturday 03 May 2008 18:12
The consensus view of the mass media today seems to be that if we don't cut our energy use now and reduce CO2 emissions, global disaster could be no more than a couple of decades off. I'm sorry but I don't believe it. And neither does former British Chancellor Nigel Lawson, whose book "An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming" has recently been published. In it, he expresses skepticism at many of the claims made by global warming believers, and argues that the proposed solutions are absurd or inadequate. Read more...
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