There is a story in the newspapers which epitomizes just what a shitty society Britain has become; and how laws brought in to deal with yobbish behavior are being used to the advantage of big business and are being targeted at some of the most vulnerable people.Anthony Delaney, an unemployed chef who has fallen on hard times after loosing his job and home, found himself on the street and started using the facilities at Gatwick airport to wash himself and keep tidy. Out of sheer desperation he eventually ended up living under its roof, rather than face the fear and desolation of sleeping rough on the streets. The Airports owners encouraged the police to take him to court and eventually a court issued an ASBO against him in 2006 which banned Delaney from Gatwick airport and its train station until 2011. Mr Delaney understandably ignored the ASBO, as he was caught between a rock and a hard place, he could go back to living on the streets or ‘illegally’ stay at the airport where at lea
The secet first draft of the nortorious Iraq dossier that helped take Britain to war against Iraq is expected to be released today. It is a victory for freedom of information campaigners. This early version, written by John Williams, the director of communications for the Foreign Office has long been the subject of controversy because [...]
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A few weeks back I wrote that 'India plans to probe the moon'. Today I read that the British too are planning to send an astronaut to space and probably send probes to the Moon as well. These were some of the proposals in the The British National Space Centre (BNSC) document, "The UK Civil Space Strategy: 2008 - 2012 and beyond".This means that the Thatcher Government's decision in 1986, to stop space exploration will be reviewed.Helen Sharman (from the BBC site)I initially assumed that Britain was the only developed nation that doesn't have an astronaut. However, I was wrong and later found out that Helen Sharman was the first Brit in space. She was part of Project Juno, which was funded by the Soviet Union and a few British companies.
In an article published on the Guardians Comment is Free web site, Mick Fealty of Slugger O’Toole wrote that whilst the exposure of yet another informer within the SF hierarchy “will not upset any constitutional apple-carts [as] Paisley's Democratic Unionists are committed to working with their former enemies almost come what may.” it does once again highlight “Sinn Fein's: violent past” “That fresh start promised by the St Andrews Agreement, is no longer fresh nor the clear cut break with the past that many within Sinn Féin would have wished for. Each time another fragment of its "secret history" becomes public, its democratic credentials tarnish just a little bit more.” *Indeed, but surely due to this continuos drip, drip of allegations about informers within Sinn Fein, it is time the debate was moved on to question just why the British Security Services, with the North of Ireland peace process securely bedded down, would wish to continue to out its own informers who
Britain’s Foreign Minister David Miliband admited his nation had “some concerns” over the upcoming trial of those charged with being behind the 9/’11 attacks. The trial before a military tribunal raises questions as to the legality of the process since Miliband notes his nation apparently has a different definition as to what constitutes torture. The [...]
Two British mothers whose sons died in Iraq told the House of Lords that former prime Minister Tony Blair deliberately lied to the nation and thus is responsible for the deaths of their children. Ms. Beverly Clarke and Mrs. Rose Gentle argue the Blair government breached their duty to members of Great Britain’s armed forces [...]
2008 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA) - Winnerssource: http://buzzsugar.com/1034714Daniel RadcliffeMore Photos herehttp://popsugar.com/gallery/225595?page=0,4,0BEST FILM:AtonementBEST BRITISH FILM:This Is EnglandTHE CARL FOREMAN AWARD:(For special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature film)Matt Greenhalgh (Writer) ControlDIRECTOR:No Country For Old Men Joel Coen/Ethan CoenORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:Juno Diablo CodyADAPTED SCREENPLAY:The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Ronald HarwoodFILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:The Lives of OthersANIMATED FILM:RatatouilleComplete list of Winners:http://buzzsugar.com/1034714
The recent statements by the Archbishop of Canterbury urging Great Britain to allow use of sharia law has aroused a fury of anger among many British Muslims. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, writing in the Independent, told him in clear terms why his proposal was an attack not merely on women, but on society. “What Rowan Williams wishes [...]
The international jury of the 51st annual World Press Photo Contest selected a colour image of the UK photographer Tim Hetherington as World Press Photo of the Year 2007. The picture was taken 16 September 2007 and shows a US soldier resting at Restrepo bunker, named after a soldier from his platoon who was recently killed by insurgents.The 2nd Battalion Airborne of the 503rd US infantry is undergoing a deployment in the Korengal Valley in the Eastern province of Afghanistan. The valley is infamous as the site of downing of a US helicopter and has seen some of the most intense fighting in the country. Hetherington's photograph is part of a picture story that was also awarded 2nd Prize in General News Stories. He had traveled to Afghanistan on assignment for Vanity Fair."This image shows the exhaustion of a man - and the exhaustion of a nation," says jury chairman Gary Knight, and adds "We're all connected to this. It's a picture of a man at the end of a line." Fellow juror MaryAnne Gol
The Archbishop of Canterbury created a firestorm of controversy when he said the introduction of sharia law for Bitish Muslims was “unavoidable.” he told a BBC audience Muslims should be able to choose whether to have matters such as marital disputes dealt with under sharia law or the British legal system. A spokesperson for Gordon [...]
The use of intelligence evidence in court for the first time could be stalled by demands from intelligence services for a right to veto the use of the transcripts from their secret bugging operations. The CIA is also unhappy that its intercepted phone calls or conversations between suspected terrorists could be produced in British courts. [...]
Helena Bonham-Carter bagged the best actress title at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. The 41-year-old actress won the award for her performance in ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street’ as well as for the low-key drama ‘Conversations With Other Women.’ The best actor gong went to Daniel Day-Lewis for his role as a Texan oil prospector in ‘There Will Be Blood.’ Julie Christie, who is also up for an Academy Award for ‘Away From Her,’ won the Alexander Walker Special Award for outstanding contribution to film, reports the Daily Snack. Joy Division biopic ‘Control’ took the best film as well as best screenplay award. ‘Atonement’ received the award for technical achievement in cinematography, production and costume design. Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood took the best film score award for his work on ‘There Will Be Blood.’ The awa
Newly appointed UN Messenger of Peace George Clooney has sought help from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the kidnapping case of a wealthy British businessman in Middle East. Alsadig Abdullah, 26, has been missing inside the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for four months. The actor got involved in the case following his attempts to promote peace talks in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. In his letter, the ‘Ocean’s 13’ star has asked Brown to use his influence in resolving the case. He wrote: "Whatever transpires it is clearly of interest to all of us with an interest in Darfur and the future of Sudan to facilitate anything that might further peace and stability in that country. "Our petitions and interventions to the authorities in the UAE will be less effective than even informal ones from you." Meanwhile a spokesperson at Brown's official residence confirmed receiving the letter. "The prime mi
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett has criticised a government plan to take a tougher line on cannais and claims the revrsal of his decision to downgrade the drug to a class C status would send mixed legal signals. “Rather than affecting practice on the ground, classifying cannabis back to class B would simply cause [...]
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Historically British Prime Ministers have not been know for being economically corrupt, indeed former Labour Prime Ministers Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson and James Callaghan on leaving office lived comparatively modest life styles which would have been recognizable to most middle class English people of the day. If they had no private wealth of their own, Conservative PMs were usually looked after on leaving office by a number of rich businessmen donating a sum of money and setting up some sort of trust fund. Winston Churchill who enjoyed living high on the hog was the beneficiary of such charity on more than one occasion.This all changed with Margaret Thatcher, who learnt early on in her Prime Ministership that it pays handsomely to become anointed the US President’s most favored foreigner. Once a British Prime Minister was comfortably perched in this position brown envelopes where for lesser mortals, for they could look forward to being looked after on leaving office by Corporate
If you’re a chimp…the answer is yes. Some sad news from the Daily Mail:
When scientists found out that chimps had better memories than students, there were unkind comments about the caliber of the human competition they faced.
But now an ape has gone one better, trouncing British memory champion Ben Pridmore.
Ayumu, a seven-year-old male brought up [...]
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Normally, a band member can be fairly certain if he tries to stage-dive that the fans will be there to catch him. Not if you're just the keyboard and cornet player, though: British Sea Power's Phil Sumner dived at the Leeds Irish Centre. Nobody caught him. Bang! He was knocked unconscious.And broke a molar. He's going to be fine, though - some stitches, and he's back behind the keyboards. But with a valuable lesson learned.
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian human rights campaigners have launched legal action against their own government for closing down the British Council's regional offices, an activist told Reuters on Wednesday. Last week Russia demanded the British cultural body close its two regional offices in Saint Petersburg and the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, which it said were operating illegally. British diplomats say Russia's move against the Council was part of a feud that has been simmering since Kremlin critic and emigre Alexander Litvinenko was killed in London by radiation poisoning in 2006. "I brought the suit in the Syktyvkar city court today. We believe that none of the Russian foreign ministry complaints announced in its demarche against the British Council had any legal grounds," Ernest Mezak, of the Memorial human rights group in the northern Russian republic of Komi, told Reuters. Russian courts rarely hand down rulings against the government. Komi, an o
Leonard Doyle, writing for the newspaper, The Independent, offered a British perspective on America in the year 2008 as it stood silently to remember the work of Martin Luther King. he heard a crowd at the Zion Baptist church in Columbia, South Carolina listen to the words of Rev. Charles Jackson who thundered out the [...]
Britney Spears showed up for court yesterday wearing the same clothes she had on the day before and still sporting the British accent. Cheerio!
Accompanied by Sam Lutfi, the poptard, who was furiously biting her nails, sported the same jeans, boots and $475 L.A.M.B. handbag she was seen in yesterday at Petco. When she arrived at [...]
A recent Channel 4 Dispatches TV program which was presented by Martin Bright, of the left of centre weekly magazine the New Statesman, was little more than a crude attempt to smear London’s left-wing Mayor Ken Livingstone. Bright’s accusations were straight out of a 1980s Thatcherite ‘smear a lefty’ handbook. All that was different in Bright’s program was that he had replaced being in hoch to the Soviet Union with a tiny cabal of Trotskyites, and thrown in Hugo Chavez for good measure. The accusations Bright makes about Socialist Action would be laughable if Livingstone were not facing re-election this May, for the days when Trotskyists sent a chill down the ruling elites spines are long gone.Bright and Channel 4’s pathetic attempt to claim the Dispatches program was fair and balanced reporting came unstuck when on the day the program was due to be aired, the London Evening Standard published an article by Martin Bright which called on “all Londoners with a progressive
On January, 16th the Petersburg office of the British council has suspended the work. Doors for visitors have been closed, called in the organisation welcomed an answering machine.
“The Russian employees have caused in FSB for conversation. We hope, that in the near future BC will open. However we can not tell anything defined”, - have [...]
The number of entries from the United Kingdom on our listings sites has been growing quite rapidly over the last few months so it seemed an appropriate time to start work on a country-specific domain to represent them.
Therefore, we’ve just started running with Great British Bed and Breakfasts and Great British Self-Catering which hold all [...]
Silent Voices is anthology of contemporary writing by five British Somali writers who powerfully express their views of being Somali in Britain, covering some of the controversial issues that have impacted each of their lives. The book was born as part of Monsoon Press’s Hidden Voices Programme funded by the Arts Council and has enabled previously unknown writers to product this fascinating and touching collection of extraordinary literary pieces. After more than a century of Somali presence in the UK, there is still a lack of knowledge about who they are. Many are misrepresented and the assumption is made that all are asylum seekers, are involved in crime gangs or are uneducated and unskilled. Silent Voices attempts to dispel some of these bigoted perceptions by presenting to the world a wealth of hidden talent from five writers who find expression through their eloquent prose and poetry. One of the contributors, 33-year-old Zahrah Awaleh, was born and raised in England. Zahrah
The crew of the British Airways plane that crash-landed at London’s Heathrow Airport a couple of days ago, has been praised by the jet’s captain for the courage shown in averting a major mishap. Captain Burkill said every member of his flight crew played a role in ensuring the plane’s safe landing at the airport, and credited his co-pilot John Coward for actually landing the plane and saving the lives of the 130 passengers onboard. According to The Sun, the crew was given a huge round of applause on Friday during a press conference here. Captain Burkill said the crew celebrated surviving the plane crash by going out for a curry. British Airways staff cheered as the pilots, the plane's cabin services director Sharon Eaton-Mercer and BA chief executive Willie Walsh appeared at the airline's Heathrow headquarters for the brief statement from Burkill. (ANI)
This tale is now a classic… a legend even, in the field of MMORPGs. First, let me introduce Lord British. Lord British is the character of Ultima Online creator Richard Garriot (yeah, the guy who wants to go to the moon).
The date was August 8, 1997 during beta testing of the game. Lord British’s royal [...]
Witnesses have described how the pilot of a British Airways passenger jet that crash landed at London's Heathrow Airport on Thursday appeared to be struggling to bring the plane down safely as it came in low over surrounding houses.
Britney Spears mysterious British accent my theory on this it could be from a past life. I think this might be a one of the factors with what she is going through now. My thoughts on this that with people saying she sometimes talks in a British accent. It could be that she is connecting with a past life that she probably lived a life with having British accent. Whatever she is going through whether that it is mental or drug related it might bringing out her emotions from a past life even more. I am worried about this woman I think she is major trouble I hope she gets help soon. I always thought this we all feel emotions from past live is the reason why many of us deal with issues in this life. This is just something I thought could be possibility of why she is doing certain things like talking in a British Accent. - Britney Spears - TMZShop.com - FREE Psychic Reading
Now that al-Qaeda has threatened to kill him, I wonder if he will take the War on Terror seriously now. Intelligence services are investigating a threat on an Islamist website to kill Gordon Brown, adding credence to warnings by the US security chief about the rising danger from home-grown European terrorists. Security experts fear the posting in Arabic on www.alekhlaas.net, referring to "the creation of the al-Qa'eda organisation in Britain", may be genuine. The site, which has been visited by more than 17 million people, also urges young Muslim men to rise up against infidels such as "(Prime Minister Gordon) Brown and (Tony) Blair". "You don't ignore this sort of thing," Pauline Neville-Jones, the former head of the British joint intelligence committee, told the BBC's Newsnight. "It may not be a threat from an existing cell ... but it does represent a move in the propaganda game and the propaganda game is not something we should ignore. This is after all a struggle over ideolo
US Geneeral Robert Cone has come out against a plan by British officials to arm local militias in an atempt to defeat the Taliban. he charged that “anything that distracts from a professional well-led police force is not the answer.” Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken of his desire to support “community defence initiatives, where [...]
Atif Amin, a British customs agent, who investigated the nuclear smuggling network of disgraced Pakistani scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, has himself become the target of a British criminal probe after being prominently featured in a book by American researchers on Pakistan’s nuclear bomb. The British media has refused to let this issue die though the case surfaced here last month. The Guardian has once again taken the government to task on Friday that how the government was trying to use the Official Secrets Act to stop the leakage, which might put it in a difficult position. Earlier, it was reported that British authorities with warrants, alleging violations of the country’s Official Secrets Act, searched Atif Amin’s house and car. The action came less than two months after the publication of “America and the Islamic Bomb,” which chronicles Amin's efforts to uncover the Khan network in 2000, more than three years before th
British Telecom to launch 360's IPTVFiled under: NewsDuring their CES keynote, Microsoft took stage and also announced that British Telecom will be the first company to launch the Xbox 360 IPTV service in the UK. British Telecom is the largest telecommunication company in the UK and will eventually allow customers to purchase Xbox 360 consoles for IPTV service. No release date was announced for the program to be up and running, but if history is any indicator of future events then we should see 360 IPTV up and running by around ... 2010. We kid, we kid! Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Link - Comments - Dustin Burg - Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:15:00 GMT - Feed (2 subs) british-telecom ces iptv Sent using SendMeRss.com. Visit here to unsubscribe from Xbox 360 Fanboy. Recommended Feeds/Actions Subscribe MSNBC.com: Dateline video
The BPI today unveiled plans for the return of British Music Week with a new structure which, for the first time, will be handled by a German management team.
A senior Church of England bishop emphasized that many parts of England have become “no-go” areas for non-Muslims. the Bishoip of Rochester, Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali, argued in the Daily Telegraph that non-Muslims faced a hostile reception if they entered areas in which most people were of the Muslim faith. He criticized the government’s integration [...]
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According to a latest survey that was conducted on people living in 13 counties suggests that British people are most addicted to fast food items followed by United States. Forty five percent of the British in the survey that was carried by BBC on 9,000 people in 13 counties agreed to the statement: "I like the taste of fast food too much to give it up" followed by 44 percent of Americans agree
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