The FT finished on Friday only about 50 points above its November low, the Dow's just hanging on above 7000. Yesterday it dropped another 5% to a new low for this crisis. But given that the 2003 bottom (3300-ish ?) was caused by evaporating dot-com illusions, whereas this one's more down to various ...

'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...

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...

Christian police and counsellors sacked for their beliefs. Apparently it's OK to mail officers asking them to wear pink ribbons for Gay History Month (I kid you not - somehow I don't think Ernst Rohm will figure prominently), but not OK to object to it. Graham Cogman and Gary McFarlane will not be t...

Remember the good old days (last year I think it was) when gangs of African and Jamaican heritage like DSN and SMN were the ruffest kids in Croydon and points north. Things seem to have got more diverse since then : Gangs of violent men from Sri Lanka are "constantly tooled up" and "ready to go", ac...

Sunny's having a pop at Bishop Nazir Ali and the massed ranks of Christian fundamentalists like, er, Melanie Phillips. I’m writing a longer article on how crap Nazir Ali’s article in Standpoint is, but there’s no surprise that the usual suspects on the right are getting a hard-on over it. The ...

A correspondent reminds me of the continuing troubles of Iraqi Christians : Thousands of Christians from across Iraq have attended the funeral of murdered Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho - as the Pope called for an end to the massacres of the beleaguered minority. The body of the Arc...

I put together a few posts a year or so back on the 'grooming' of under-age girls, often leading to prostitution, by young Asian (mostly Muslim) men in Northern cities. It was the subject of last night's Panorama. It'll be up for a week - does anyone know how to capture BBC video ? One Muslim from L...