BMEWS readers all .... I read part (okay only the headline) of an article this morning that says people who are always angry are at risk of heart attacks. So I thought ... hmmmm.  They’re talkin’ to me.  Maybe I’d better say my goodbyes now while I can and while I still f...

'On Special Offer' Sloggi underwear poster named 'most degrading advertisement of the year' - Telegraph The poster of buttocks clad in sheer tights by Swiss underwear giant Sloggi was given the award for "promoting pornography and prostitution" by the Guard......

I contributed a short article about new sin taxes and the recession to this week’s Lars Larson newsletter [pdf]. Jan from Cascade Cigar has a piece in there too. Since the newsletter is in pdf format, I’ve copied my submission below the break. The Wages of Sin Taxes People who indulge in...

“Guinness needs your help!” reads the subject line on an email I received from the company today. I went to one of their “Guinness Believer” promotional events a few years ago — totally worth it for the free beer — so I get occasional mail from them. I assumed thi...

I’m sitting here in the frustrating middle of history that goes back a thousand years and more. My interest lately though has been WW2 but specifically a group of women super women who were Brit nurses during that time. I’m going to write a bit about these bigger then life awesome ladies...

teachers must promote equality and value diversity Church schools could be forced to promote Islam and homosexuality under a new legally-binding code of conduct for teachers, it is feared. By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent The code is accused of undermining the religious ethos of C...

Now the environutters are after your toilet paper: That super-soft toilet paper you're fond of using? It's an ecological disaster, environmentalists say. Millions of trees are harvested throughout the Americas – including rare old-growth forests in Canada – to sustain the United States’ obsess...

Every Englishman is accustomed to pride himself with more then usual complacency upon what is called the sanctity of an English home.  No soldier, no policeman, no spy of the government dare enter it . . . . Unlike the tenant of a foreign domicile, the occupier of an English house , whether it ...

And now for some good news: The Long Beach, CA city council passed its proposal to loosen the local smoking ban, granting official approval to the city’s 13 cigar lounges. Even this is far too much diversity for anti-tobacco activists: Lung association spokesman Steven Gallegos disagreed, tell...

British authorities remove kids from parents because of one boy’s leg fractures that “could only have been caused by physical abuse.” Child later determined to have rare form of scurvy; no abuse. Court says, “Oops. Sorry. But it’s too late. We already gave your kids to ...