Archive for the 'England' Category

05 Feb 2010

The Hague, not the Chilcot Inquiry

By Anwaar Hussain
Chilcot Inquiry was set up by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to inquire into Iraq war covering a period from 2001–2009. The hearings are being held in public unless there are “compelling reasons” for witnesses to be heard in private. The inquiry started at the end of July 2009, after the return of most [...]

02 Jun 2008

Britain, the new Banana Republic

Economic crises… unelected cabals kicking out the Prime Minister: the signs are all there

By Gerard Baker
It’s at this time of year that an expat’s thoughts turn most wistfully to England. Spring in full blush never seems to hold quite as much promise elsewhere. When you’ve lived abroad for as long as I have, [...]

21 May 2008

Christian fundamentalists fighting spiritual battle in Parliament

By David Modell
They think society should be built on their beliefs. They claim non-believers are damned. But these radical Christian groups are not in America – they are here and are aiming to change the laws of our land, discovers the Bafta-winning film-maker David Modell
It’s Tuesday morning and the infants’ classroom in Carmel [...]

08 Mar 2008

Full Circle at Yale

By Anwaar Hussain
Yale University is an awesome institution. For the academic year 2006-2007 for example, Yale was having on its campus over 13000 undergraduate, graduate and international students. Yale has 275 Campus buildings and its library holds 12.5 million volumes. With an endowment of $22.5 billion, its operating budget of $1.96 billion for the last [...]

13 Nov 2007

John Cleese’s Notice of Revocation of Independence to America

by John Cleese
TS Admin : Time again for this invaluable notice to America. A must-read.

To the citizens of the United States of America: in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.
Her [...]

14 Oct 2007

This stupid nation

A deeply disturbing article, taken from The Business online, about the impact of British education system on its upcoming generation and state of their mental development

It is one of the most devastating indictments of British education ever produced: a study of 10,000 children reveals that 11-and 12-year-old children are “now, on average, between two and [...]

21 Sep 2007

End of Belgium should be a warning to Gordon

By Boris Johnson 20/09/2007

At the end of some office crisis, the late, great Bill Deedes had a way of turning to you – if you were lucky enough to have been through the crisis with him – and saying, in his conspiratorial way: “Well, old cock, I think we got through that one all right.” [...]

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