http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ungland/ en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 16:01:02 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021328/posts The city council of a tiny rural hamlet in Somerset, England, has vetoed a plan to fly the flag of St. George because its links to the Christian Crusades in the Middle Ages may offend the town's Muslim residents. ... John Clements, vice president of the Royal Society of St. George, a patriotic organization, called the Radstock councilors' decision “nonsense” and a form of “censoring” of the national flag. IBT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021328/posts#comment Sun, 19 May 2013 16:01:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021115/posts The UK Has Just Had One Lost Decade, And It's About To Enter A Second Philip Aldrick, The Daily Telegraph May 18, 2013, 3:42 PMHSBC’s chief global economist has written a compelling but dark account of the challenges facing the West. Philip Aldrick considers the chilling claims. Bleak does not begin to describe the latest tome on the economic crisis by Stephen King, the HSBC chief global economist who appropriately shares a name with the best-selling horror writer. When the Money Runs Out is the economic equivalent of post-apocalyptic fiction, charting “the end of Western affluence”, and gives the author... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021115/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 21:18:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018460/posts Critics said that the previous Labour Government’s ‘open-door’ immigration policy had created ‘huge’ problems for integration, which was now threatening the country’s social cohesion..... ....The new figures follow a study published earlier this month by the Left-leaning think tank Demos which showed white Britons are moving out of areas where they are in a minority at the same time as the ethnic minority population was growing.. Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018460/posts#comment Sun, 12 May 2013 13:50:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017703/posts A proposal by a leading pro-abortion lawyer to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 13 to protect “old men” who molest young people from legal “persecution,” is being met with outrage in the UK. “I do not support the persecution of old men,” Barbara Hewson wrote recently in Spiked online magazine. “England has a long history of do-gooders seeking to stamp out their version of sexual misconduct by force of the criminal law.” LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017703/posts#comment Fri, 10 May 2013 03:02:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3006918/posts BBC Chief Refuses To Ban Margaret Thatcher Death Song The BBC is at the centre of a new row over the death of Baroness Thatcher after admitting it may broadcast a song mocking her passing. While Lord Hall believes the campaign is 'rather tasteless', he has told staff that it is ultimately an 'editorial decision' 11 Apr 2013 Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, a song from the Wizard of Oz, has sold 20,000 copies this week after anti-Thatcher campaigners encouraged people to buy it to celebrate the death of the former Prime Minister. It is currently number four and... Telegraph (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3006918/posts#comment Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:06:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2995471/posts The name says it all: For more than 70 years the soldiers of Britain’s Parachute Regiment have been prepared to risk their all by dropping into the toughest of war zones. But now cost cutting means the Paras will no longer be trained to use their chutes, the Mail on Sunday can reveal. The regiment, whose most famous sortie during the Second World War was immortalised in the film A Bridge Too Far, has been targeted by Ministry of Defence accountants keen to reduce budgets. DailyMail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2995471/posts#comment Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:27:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2987104/posts On February 5, Britain’s House of Commons voted in favor of legalizing gay marriage. The vote is extremely alarming. It could signal the beginning of the end for Western civilization as we know it. The idea of same-sex marriage is troubling even to some homosexuals, let alone those who hold a biblical conviction that marriage is intended by the Creator to be between a man and a woman. The vote, which was 400-175, represented a major crack in the Conservative Party. More than half of its 303 members voted against or abstained from the measure. Prime Minister David Cameron may... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2987104/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:40:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2985344/posts Muslim Patrols Could Become More Prevalent And More Violent, Warns Anti-Extremist Muslim patrols stalking British streets could become “a lot more dangerous” and perhaps even willing to maim or kill, the head of an anti-extremism organisation has warned. By Rosa Silverman 30 Jan 2013 As British jihadists venture abroad to capitalise on the aftermath of the Arab Spring and then return to the UK, they are likely to bring a greater level of violence back home, Maajid Nawaz, the chairman of the Quilliam Foundation, suggested. His comments follow incidents in which groups of Muslim vigilantes, dubbing themselves 'Muslim Patrols' have... Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2985344/posts#comment Tue, 5 Feb 2013 02:37:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2982236/posts A muslim who raped a 13-year-old girl he groomed on Facebook has been spared a prison sentence after a judge heard he went to an Islamic faith school where he was taught that women are worthless. Adil Rashid, 18, claimed he was not aware that it was illegal for him to have sex with the girl because his education left him ignorant of British law. Yesterday Judge Michael Stokes handed Rashid a suspended sentence, saying: ‘Although chronologically 18, it is quite clear from the reports that you are very naive and immature when it comes to sexual matters.’ Earlier Nottingham... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2982236/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:54:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2977702/posts Hospitals are denying patients the latest life-extending cancer drugs, a report reveals. Dozens of trusts are failing to hand out treatments for bowel, ovarian, lung and brain cancer that have been approved by the NHS watchdog NICE. Some of these drugs have been shown to boost survival rates by a quarter while others have extended the lives of terminally-ill patients by over a year. The report - commissioned by the Department of Health - also reveals that many hospitals are failing to prescribe the latest treatments for heart attacks, asthma, multiple sclerosis, arthritis and Crohn’s Disease. In fact some of... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2977702/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:51:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2976545/posts The textbook was issued by Garnet Education, an independent English-Language Teaching (ELT) instructor in Britain. The textbook contains a map with “Occupied Palestine” in place of Israel, according to media reports. PressTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2976545/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jan 2013 23:27:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2971692/posts Pupils as young as four are using scissors, chairs, bats and staple guns to attack teachers amid a rising tide of violent indiscipline in primary schools. Growing numbers of teachers are falling victim to serious assaults by young pupils who punch, stab, kick, bite and push. Cases detailed in incident logs include an attempted strangling with a scarf and an injury to a teacher who disarmed a pupil caught carrying a kitchen knife. Children also arm themselves with any classroom items at hand - including sharpened pencils, metal stools, large batteries, tennis rackets and computer keyboards. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251974/Teachers-attacked-children-young-FOUR-Rising-tide-violence-Britains-primary-schools.html#ixzz2FuKBDSzK Follow... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2971692/posts#comment Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:12:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969667/posts A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing. A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase - and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings. They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon. The research is published in the British Medical Journal. The researchers said there was no reason for long pointed knives to be publicly available at all. They consulted 10 top chefs from... BBC.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969667/posts#comment Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:14:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2969165/posts BBC children’s programs should include more lesbian, gay and bisexual people, a report of the corporation recommends. A panel of nine experts said youngsters should be introduced to sexual diversity in their early years.While there has been a gradual increase in the representation of these people, they remain “still relatively invisible” in the media, they said. The experts added that the BBC should be “more creative and bolder in its depiction of such groups of people, taking care to steer clear of stereotypes.” … Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2969165/posts#comment Sun, 16 Dec 2012 03:52:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2965070/posts The Army has been ordered to take a 25-day Christmas holiday to try to cut its electricity and gas bills. All 110,000 military and civilian personnel must take ‘block leave’ from December 14 until January 7, a leaked memo from a senior officer said. The decision, communicated by Major General David Cullen, means all barracks, Territorial Army buildings and other military sites will be closed for almost a month. General Cullen, the chief of staff for land forces, said it was an ‘opportunity for utility savings’. He added that the measure aimed to ‘fully exploit the utility efficiencies available by... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2965070/posts#comment Mon, 3 Dec 2012 08:58:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963859/posts Patients experience “coldness, resentment, indifference" and "even contempt” in some hospitals, the Health Secretary has claimed in a hard-hitting speech about NHS care. In the worse cases staff have overseen “a kind of normalisation of cruelty”, Jeremy Hunt told an audience of health professionals at The King’s Fund, a London-based think-tank. Managers were so “buried in spreadsheets” that they had become “blind” to the fact that patients were not being treated with dignity or respect, he said. Poor care had become “perhaps the biggest problem of all facing the NHS”, Mr Hunt claimed in his strongest speech yet on the... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963859/posts#comment Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:07:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2960839/posts I periodically compare moronic decisions and policies by governments in the United States and United Kingdom. You can peruse some jaw-dropping examples by clicking this link. To show that politicians and bureaucrats don’t have a monopoly on stupidity, I’ve also shared a pair of examples that expose foolishness in the private sector.“Won’t anyone take free money?” I think the contest has been pretty even to date, but now we have an entry from the United Kingdom that may be hard to beat. The government created a new boondoggle program, but managed to make it so convoluted that no households have... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2960839/posts#comment Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:22:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951509/posts Street lights turned off in their thousands to meet carbon emission targets Huge swathes of Britain are being plunged into darkness as more and more streetlights are switched off by councils and roads authorities. Lights are being turned off on motorways and major roads, in town centres and residential streets, and on footpaths and cycle ways, as councils try to save money on energy bills and meet carbon emission targets. The switch-off begins as early as 9pm. They are making the move despite concerns from safety campaigners and the police that it would lead to an increase in road accidents... telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951509/posts#comment Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:23:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2951238/posts Lights are being turned off on motorways and major roads, in town centres and residential streets, and on footpaths and cycle ways, as councils try to save money on energy bills and meet carbon emission targets. The switch-off begins as early as 9pm. They are making the move despite concerns from safety campaigners and the police that it would lead to an increase in road accidents and crime. The full extent of the blackout can be disclosed following an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph - which comes on the day that clocks moved back an hour, making it dark earlier... telegraph uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2951238/posts#comment Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:07:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2924366/posts Animal Rights Group Calls Sport Hunting Magazines ‘Shooting Porn’ and Wants to Ban Kids from Seeing Themby Liz Klimas Posted on August 28, 2012 at 3:17pm An animal rights group in the U.K. came out with a report Monday saying gun magazines are “shooting porn” that should be banned from sale to minors. In its report “Gunning For Children: How the gun lobby recruits young blood,“ Animal Aid says that such ”lurid, pro-violence content could have a corrosive, long-lasting effect on impressionable young minds.” The group believes these magazines should be considered “top shelf” and banned from sale to customers... The Blaze http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2924366/posts#comment Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:02:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2912384/posts Actually, London, your opening ceremony was atrocious. It was horrific. It was a deeply troubling insight into a once-great nation. I recognize that, in the grand scheme of things, the opening ceremony of the summer Olympics doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. Probably, the summer Olympics themselves don’t have any true significance. After all, it’s just sports, and most of them are obscure sports. But they are entertaining nonetheless, and we look forward to them each four years, and we enjoy the spectacle as much as we enjoy the competition. Which is why on Friday night we lined our... boblonsberry.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2912384/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:12:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2912033/posts Oxford University has rewritten the laws governing its strict academic dress code following concerns that they were unfair towards transgender students. Under the new regulations, students taking exams or attending formal occasions will no longer have to wear ceremonial clothing that is specific to their gender. It will mean men will be able to sit tests in skirts and stockings and women will have the option of wearing suits and bow ties. The new laws, which will come into force next week, comes after a motion put forward the university's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer society (LGBTQ Soc) was... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2912033/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:33:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903325/posts The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, says five battalions will disappear and 17 units will be axed in the biggest overhaul of the British army for decades. Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903325/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jul 2012 07:05:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2894252/posts A law to allow same-sex weddings will destroy the institution of marriage for future generations, leaders of the Church of England warned yesterday. They claim it will lead to a constitutional crisis, arguing that human rights legislation will force churches to treat gay couples asking for a wedding in the same way they treat heterosexual couples. The Church of England’s warning comes in response to the Government’s consultation on legalising same-sex marriage, which will close this week. The proposed reforms, formally launched in March, have been described by Church officials as ‘half-baked’, ‘very shallow’, ‘superficial’ and ‘completely irrational’. They claim... The Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2894252/posts#comment Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:18:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2893826/posts A family of Somali benefits claimants living in a £2million home courtesy of the taxpayer admitted they couldn’t believe their luck yesterday. To the anger of neighbours, the family of ten are allowed to live in a six-bedroom end-of-terrace Georgian townhouse in one of London’s most fashionable areas, populated by high-flying lawyers and stockbrokers. The family use housing benefits to pay a heavily discounted rent for the four-storey house in Islington – close to Tony Blair’s former home – which boasts a variety of period features, including chandeliers and wood flooring. The family are understood to pay the council just... the Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2893826/posts#comment Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:11:17 GMT