Carnage in Manchester, it must be our last
1977, aged 7, I experienced my first ‘bomb’ in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Us kids had our hospital beds wheeled into the corridor as our room windows came through, Continue Reading
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Austria: Muslim preschools ‘linked to Islamist groups’
AUSTRIA: A state-funded study into Islamic kindergartens in Vienna suggests that Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and its Turkish counterpart Milli Gorus have links to some of the Continue Reading
Tommy Robinson, PEGIDA co-founder, found unconscious after weekend attack
Update 16/02/2016: Tommy finally back & on the mend. Sense of humour still intact it would appear. News is emerging on Facebook today that Tommy Robinson, co-founder of PEGIDA UK, Continue Reading
Tommy Robinson, PEGIDA UK, debates Islam and Immigration on Arab TV
Tommy Robinson, co-founder of PEGIDA UK, appeared live on Arab TV channel Al Jazeera today, 07/02/2016. The debate centred on the synchronised PEGIDA rallies across Europe and the mass immigration Continue Reading
UK should NOT accept 3,000 additional migrant children, we have done our bit already
Later today the Daily Mail leads with the headline “PM: Why we must not take 3,000 migrant children”, suggesting that David Cameron has decided NOT to accept the 3,000 ‘unaccompanied’ Continue Reading
Cologne NYE: The facts as they stand now, far removed from initial reports
The initial furore over the Cologne NYE revelations has died down. The political hacks with an axe to grind are less vociferous. The mainstream media have taken their foot off Continue Reading
Is Europe blindly stumbling into a migration-led, Islamic extremism apocalypse?
We hear many claims (mainly by those who would appear to support the rabid mass migration of 2015 and the inevitable quadrupling of these mind-blowing numbers during 2016) asserting that Continue Reading
Sky News report into Pegida rally in Cologne misrepresents ‘refugee’ problem
Sky News UK did what looked like a complete ‘hatchet-job’ in their afternoon report from todays Pegida rally in Cologne. We can overlook the persistent use of ‘right wing Pegida’ Continue Reading
Peter Tatchell makes an excellent point re Sharia and Human Rights
I cannot profess to agreeing with Peter Tatchell on everything, in fact our views on Palestine are probably poles apart, but I have to give credit where it is due. Continue Reading
Sgt Blackman, political scapegoat, has suffered enough. It’s time to let him out.
The UK government need to accept the time has come, any political manoeuvring on the subject has moved on, there is nothing to gain by keeping Sgt Blackman in jail Continue Reading
Letters to ISIS from a confused UK Socialist
Having taken on board the pacifistic attitude displayed and advice given by Jeremy Corbyn, current leader of the Trotsky Labour Party, I’ve been embarking on a peaceful route towards improving Continue Reading
Hilary Benn shows true leadership quality with Syria Airstrikes speech
Hilary Benn, Shadow Foreign Secretary in Jeremy Corbyn’s troubled Labour Party made the speech of his life tonight in the House of Commons. He may well have went against the Continue Reading
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