The End of Schengen?
- May 07, 2011
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- Matt
Is Europe’s horror of ‘immigration’ paving the way for the unravelling of one of the key components of European integration – the ‘borderless’ Schengen Area? It’s certainly beginning to look that way. Last week the EU Home Office Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom announced forthcoming discussions to introduce a ‘temporary reintroduction of limited internal border controls...
Something Dark at Nottingham University
- May 05, 2011
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- Matt
In July 2008 Rizwaan Sabir, a masters student at Nottingham University and Hicham Yezza, a former student who was working as a junior university administrator in the university’s School of Modern Languages, were arrested under the 2000 Terrorism Act for downloading terrorist materials. The material in question included the so-called ‘Al Qaeda Training Manual’,...
It Was Waterboarding Wot Done it
- May 04, 2011
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- Matt
Clearly miffed at being left out of the bin Laden killfest, the ideological knuckledraggers of the Bush years are somewhat bizarrely attempting to take credit for it.
Shambling out of stage right comes Donald Rumsfeld, the clever buffoon with the folksy grin who once urged the US to ‘go massive, sweep it all up’ the day...
(Don’t) Bring Me the Head of Osama bin Laden
- May 02, 2011
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- Matt
So Osama bin Laden has exited the world in which he wrought so much mayhem. Initial versions suggested that bin Laden was killed ‘resisting’ a Special Forces team, but Reuters has since claimed that the operation was intended to be a ‘kill operation’.
Whatever the truth, the Stars and Stripes are waving outside the White House,...
Saif Gaddafi Sleeps With the Fishes
- May 01, 2011
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- Matt
The day after Gaddafi made another ceasefire proposal, a NATO missile strike has killed his son Saif al Arab Gaddafi and three of Gaddafi’s grandchildren in what appears to have been a deliberate assassination. Last night’s strikes on Tripoli also damaged the Libyan Down’s Syndrome Society and a parent-funded school for children.
It isn’t known...
Rejoice and Tug the Forelock
- April 29, 2011
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- Matt
The great day has dawned and a patriotic mist has already descended on the nation’s collective brain. Towns and cities across the UK, including my own, are draped in Union Jacks and the cross of St George, as millions celebrate the accession of Kate Middleton from the status of ‘commoner’ to a world of...
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