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... alas, too much work. But not enough work is worse. This is, while not totally surprising, still food for thought : The CIA is now running its own agent networks on an unprecedented scale in the British Pakistani community. A British security source told me that somewhere between 40 and 60 per ce...

So HBOS was in the doo-doo. It was "too big to fail". So it would have to be nationalised like Northern Rock. But wait ! There was a better answer. Why not steer it into the arms of a bigger, financially sound bank - like Lloyds. OK, that would create a "much too big to fail" bank and breach all kin...

'Anti-racist' Lib Dem councillor blots her copybook. Her 'coconut' jibe is doubly offensive - to the (Asian) Conservative councillor at whom it was directed, and in its implication that white = bad. She's accusing Ms Jethra of being a traitor to her skin colour - an accusation that levelled by a whi...

America's Most wanted terrorists and war criminals: Dick Cheney Age: 67 Occupation: Vice President of the United States Aliases: Big Time, Satan, the President Remarks: Goes hiding in “undisclosed locations� during times of crises. Shot friend in the face with a shotgun. Caution: Wanted for bein...

For bitch to be sexist, it would have to be uttered in a conversation in which there is a power differential. Sexism equals privilege plus power, but you would know that if you were really about challenging the patriarchy. http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/02/radical-feminism.html Well, if you ac...

When I heard Mandelson accusing John Humphrys (audio, BBC player) - of all people - of stoking 'xenophobia', my first thought was 'he's running out of debating options - he's desperate'. You expect an accusation of racism to be the first response of, say, a Liberal blogger who's losing an argument -...

At the moment our leaders are terribly worried that political parties may gain votes by appealing to the worst instincts in voters - those of hatred for some "other", usually of a different ethnic group. Sadly, these fears aren't completely groundless. There was also a by election in Redbridge yeste...

When whoever-it-is says "To give up plastic" I presume she's talking about surgery. Have they no sense of shame - or at least of irony ? But these people apparently take themselves seriously. I hope they don't expect us to ... (I don't see much 'cult-like service' here, though. I see a lot of posers...

I was hoping to ignore the Prince Harry brouhaha, but as it was the main story on BBC news yesterday, occupied most of John Pienaar's 2 hr R5 'politics' programme and was the phone-in topic on R5 this morning ... a few points : a) this was another Murdoch press-sourced story. The Dirty Digger, now a...