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I'm visiting my sister in England and we see stuff like this. I took this photo just a little ago. This is what happens when you aren't paying enough attention. Oh...and this is my sister (wazoo1031).

If his glamorous niece weren't expected to marry Britain's Prince William, Gary Goldsmith might just be another cocaine-snorting, tattooed, embarrassing uncle.

August 13, 2009 skip to nav How Father Ted creator Graham Linehan sparked NHS backlash on Twitter Exclusive: The award-winning comedy writer talks to The First Post about why he took on the American right over the British healthcare system By Seth Jacobson FIRST POSTED AUGUST 12, 2009 The First Post can reveal that the prime mover behind the 'We love the NHS' campaign on Twitter, which has seen tens of thousands of users of the microblogging service rush to defend the British health system, is Graham Linehan, the television comedy writer who created Father Ted and The IT Crowd....

Mystery deepened Wednesday over a missing Russian-crewed cargo ship last seen in July in the English Channel, as experts debated whether pirates, a mafia quarrel or a commercial dispute were to blame. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered his navy to join the search for the Arctic Sea, which left Finland with its timber cargo on July 23 bound for the Algerian port of Bejaia -- but has not been seen for two weeks. Swedish police say the ship was hijacked in the Baltic Sea on July 24, when masked men claiming to be anti-drugs police boarded the ship, tied up...

This may be closer to reality than you think You’re sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way. With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it. In the darkness, you make out two shadows. One holds something that looks like a crowbar. When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike,...

The Bank of England will downgrade its growth forecasts and issue a warning this week that the UK economy risks slumping into a debt deflation trap, the Telegraph reported on Monday. The newspaper said BoE Governor Mervyn King will use the Bank's Inflation Report on Wednesday to say the risk of such a slump was one of the main reasons behind the bank's surprise decision last week to extend its quantitative easing programme.

After another monster week, the major indices look to open just slightly. There is no news just yet and so thing could change quickly. There are no major economic statisitics that will come out today however the Fed's two day Federal Open Market Committee meeting begins tomorrow. According to Bloomberg, the FOMC will be focusing on the crisis in commercial mortgages.

Amid surge in the level of insurgency fuelled by the Taliban against the US-led Nato forces, a top British commander today warned that the UK’s mission in Afghanistan could last up to 40 years. General David Richards, who becomes Chief of the General Staff on 28 August, said it was a “mistake” to abandon the region after the Russians pulled out in the late 1980s. “The Army’s role will evolve, but the whole process might take as long as 30 to 40 years,” General Richards was quoted as saying by The Times newspaper. “I believe that the UK will be...

More than 30 people were arrested today after disorder broke out during a demonstration billed as a protest against Islamic fundamentalism.   A total of 31 people were detained in Birmingham city centre during the event, which is believed to have been organised on social networking sites.  A West Midlands Police spokesman said the arrests were made at various locations during the protest and a counter-demonstration organised by the Unite Against Fascism group.   A protester lies injured following the demonstration in central Birmingham today     A man with a Union Jack flag is attacked after the protest...

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Dawkins Supports First UK Atheist Kids' Camp by Christine Dao* The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins has sponsored a week-long summer camp geared towards making atheists out of children...

British leaders must stay up at night thinking of new ways that they can cater to Islam. Just the other day I posted that Muslims in the UK might get their own police division. Now non-Muslim female officers in two UK counties will be forced to wear headscarves upon entering a Mosque. I can't wait to see what they come up with next.

The introduction of computerised NHS patient records in England could be hit by more delays, MPs warn. The Committee on Public Accounts has thrown fresh doubt on a 2015 deadline for the ambitious £12bn project. Its chairman said that even in trusts already using parts of the system, staff were unimpressed and the cost to the NHS was uncertain.

My hope for British Conservative Party leader, Daniel Hannan speaking at the Conservative Party Spring Forum at the end of April. YouTube speech 1 of 2 YouTube speech 2 of 2 Enjoy.

Dr. Michael Savage confirmed on his radio show "The Savage Nation" last night, that he is still banned from the United Kingdom, and also drops a potential bombshell that in his words is "a very dangerous situation that will put a chill through every fair minded American and that will set off a shockwave through the British and American governments." According to Savage, after researching the information he and his lawyers obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, there is significant evidence to suggest that there are more American talk show personalities whose names are also on the United Kingdom's...

The Church of England yesterday overthrew 2,000 years of history by giving its blessing to couples having children before they marry. It declared that although sex is best kept for marriage, couples who live together and have children without a wedding will no longer be regarded as living in sin. Instead they will be encouraged to adopt traditional values at newly created services in which they will be able both to marry and baptise their children. The new services mean that the CofE is openly accepting sex before marriage among its congregations - something rejected across two millennia of...

BREAKING NEWS: Girl, 13, arrested with machine gun after raid on south London flat Martin Bentham, Home Affairs Editor 22.07.09 Specialist officers raided the girl's home in CroydonA 13-year-old girl has been arrested by armed Met police after a sub-machinegun was found in her wardrobe.The weapon was discovered when a specialist anti-gang crime squad of 15 officers with hydraulic battering rams and combat shields raided the girl's home in Croydon.She was detained on suspicion of possessing a firearm, an offence which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for adults and three for juveniles.The raid, which police say...

  Council removes Christian paediatrician from adoption panel A paediatrician has been removed as a medical adviser to Northamptonshire County Council after asking to abstain from making recommendations on the placement of children with same-sex couples. by Jenna Lyle Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 10:15 (BST)  Dr Sheila Matthews, who has been a medical adviser to the Council’s adoption panel for five years, said she believed it would be “inappropriate” to place children in a household with same sex parents.“Using my professional judgement and having done a lot of reading around the subject, I am satisfied that there are...

Britain's incoming home secretary says ban on radio talker's travel to be lifted Radio talker Michael Savage told WND he was "stunned" by the quick decision by incoming United Kingdom Home Secretary Alan Johnson to scrap his predecessor's list of people banned from Britain – a list that included Savage along with Islamic hate preachers and terrorists. Savage had sued outgoing Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for libel for listing him, along with 15 others, as "least wanted" visitors in the country. Meanwhile, Smith's successor, Alan Johnson, called the move a terrible blunder and told the London Daily Mail he would...

Britain’s Leaders Warn of the Loss of Common Values The decline of Christianity and moral values in general is reaching new lows in Britain. While the number of faithful has been decreasing for some time now, warnings about the situation are starting to come from all quarters. Britain is no longer a Christian nation, affirmed Anglican bishop, Paul Richardson, in an article published Jun. 27 in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. The Anglican prelate was also critical of his fellow bishops for not understanding just how serious the change is in contemporary culture, and for their lack of action in dealing...

A Terminator-like cyborg arm could offer new hope to amputees and victims of paralysis.   The mechanical limb, which is controlled by thought alone, has a fully mobile shoulder and elbow, and a sensitive 'gripper' that mimics a human hand.  A microchip implanted in the brain is linked to a sensor in the prosthetic, which 'reads' the signals and reacts instantaneously.Professor Kevin Warwick, a professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading and pioneer of the amazing new technology, said: 'It has the potential to radically change the lives of the disabled, and revolutionise the way we treat those...

A 350ft crop circle of an ancient Mayan symbol, said to be a sign of an impending apocalypse, has appeared next to Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. The giant pattern - thought to represent a traditional Mayan head-dress - appeared next to the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe last week. Members of the crop circle community believe the mystic symbol is a signal of the end of the 5,126-year Mayan 'Long Count' calendar on December 21, 2012. Karen Alexander, a crop circle enthusiast, said: "This is one of the most interesting crop circles I have ever seen. It is definitely...

The Bank of England surprised financial markets and economists Thursday, after opting not to expand its 125 billion pound ($202 billion) quantitative-easing program at its July meeting as it kept interest rates at a record low of 0.5%. -snip- The British pound jumped sharply in the immediate wake of the move and held gains afterwards, rising 1.1% to $1.6233 versus the dollar. British government bonds, known as gilts, fell after the decision. The committee didn't rule out an expansion of the program in the future, however. -snip- Despite signs the recession has moderated its pace, BOE officials, including Governor Mervyn...

The beloved vintage car from the 1968 movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" can't appear in a British parade because it's not roadworthy, local officials say. The car, with its red and yellow wings, flew children away from danger in the film, but now presents a danger to the public in this weekend's Norwich, England, Street Procession, because it lacks a proper Ministry of Transport inspection certificate, the Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday. "The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car does not have a valid MoT certificate and therefore breaches regulations," said Harry Mitchell of the Norfolk Police told the newspaper, adding that...

A petition has been launched to force council chiefs to drop plans to brand a Prescot school with a bizarre 12-word name. More than 100 people have already signed up opposing the plan to re-name Prescot School as Knowsley Park Centre for Learning - serving Prescot, Whiston and the wider community. Organisers behind the Prescotian - a website for former Prescot School pupils - have branded the new name "politically correct madness". They plan to present their petition to education bosses before the start of the next school term in a bid to force a u-turn. The far from snappy...

Iran has detained several local British embassy staff, sparking a new row with Britain on Sunday that underscored the hardline leadership's effort to blame post-election unrest on foreign powers, not popular anger. EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iranian police stand guard during an anti-Britain protest in front of the British embassy in Tehran June 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Fars News/Files) British Foreign Secretary David Miliband demanded the release of all the staff still held and said his European Union colleagues had agreed to a...

Britain is no longer a Christian nation and the Church of England could die out within a generation, an Anglican bishop has warned. The Rt Rev Paul Richardson said declining church attendance and the rise in multiculturalism meant that "Christian Britain is dead". He criticised his fellow bishops for failing to appreciate the scale of the crisis and warned that their inaction could seal the Church's fate. The General Synod, the Church's parliament, will next month consider proposals to cut the number of bishops and senior clergy amid fears over the Church's finances. Writing for The Sunday Telegraph, Bishop Richardson...

If recent trends are any guide, many Church of England parishes will have been cheered by higher attendances at Easter services. The last published statistics for 2006/7 show rises of 7 and 5 per cent in church going at Christmas and Easter. But these figures are just about the only signs of hope for the church and certainly not the first green shoots of a revival. Other statistics make for gloomy reading. Annual decline in Sunday attendance is running at around 1 per cent. At this rate it is hard to see the church surviving for more than 30 years...

FIRE extinguishers will be on the menu at a local restaurant which claims to boast the world's spiciest pizza. Bella Italia has entered the "Volcanica" to the Guinness World Records as the hottest pizza ever made. The dish comes with a free glass of milk to soothe burning taste buds. Red and green chillis, njuda sausage and extra spicy arrabiatta sauce provide the fiery flavour. Vittorio Lettieri, the chef behind the recipe, said: "It's not for the faint-hearted but those who think they can beat the burn won't be disappointed. "Side effects can include a numb tongue and watering eyes...

Shopping in Harrods last week, I came across a group of women wearing black burkhas, browsing the latest designs in the fashion department. The irony of the situation was almost laughable. Here was a group of affluent women window shopping for designs that they would never once be able to wear in public. Yet it's a sight that's becoming more and more commonplace. In hardline Muslim communities right across Britain, the burkha and hijab - the Muslim headscarf - are becoming the norm. In the predominantly Muslim enclaves of Derby near my childhood home, you now see women hidden behind...

Welcome to another bumper edition of Mind How You Go. The only trouble is knowing where to start. Spoilt for choice, as a matter of fact. Should I kick off with the trigger-happy Plod who Tasered a sheep? Or banning compulsory swimming lessons for all new recruits to avoid offending Muslim women. Both of those are brought to you courtesy of the Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban, who has turned North Wales Police into the provisional wing of the Keystone Kops. Let's begin with the Tasered sheep. As I constantly remind you, if you give anyone any authority whatsoever,...

James May always wanted to be an astronaut. Now, 40 years after the first Apollo landings, he gets a chance to fly to the edge of space in a U2 spy plane. But first he has to undergo three gruelling days of training with the US Air Force and learn to use a space suit to stay alive in air so thin it can kill in an instant. He discovers that during the flight there are only two people higher than him, and they are both real astronauts on the International Space Station.

President Sarkozy's proposed ban may be pure politicking, but it does expose a fundamental cross-Channel difference"The burka is not a religious problem, it's a question of liberty and women's dignity. It's not a religious symbol, but a sign of subservience and debasement. I want to say solemnly, the burka is not welcome in France. In our country, we can't accept women prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity. That is not our idea of freedom.” So spoke Nicolas Sarkozy in Versailles during his first state of the nation address to France's two chambers,...

Recession hit the races at Royal Ascot yesterday with even royalty getting their outfits off the peg. Frugal Princess Beatrice led the way in a Kate Moss for Topshop jacket, priced at a modest £90, with a pair of £65 two-tone shoes from Office. Unfortunately, when you reduce yourself to the level of mere mortals, embarrassments can occur - and another racegoer was seen wearing an identical Philip Treacy hat. Colour was most definitely the order of the day - led by the Queen who sported a bright yellow hat. Also in the royal party, who arrived according to tradition...

Race-hate attacks have forced more than 100 Romanians to take shelter in a church hall after fleeing their homes in Belfast. Police helped move around 20 families to safety from their homes in the Lisburn Road area of south Belfast last night. The move came a day after youths making Nazi salutes hurled bottles at residents who marched in support of the migrants.

The first “anti-stab” knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon. The knife has a rounded edge instead of a point and will snag on clothing and skin to make it more difficult to stab someone. It was invented by industrial designer John Cornock, who was inspired by a documentary in which doctors advocated banning traditional knives. Mr Cornock, 42, from Swindon, said that the knife will cut vegetables, but will make it almost impossible to stab someone to death and will reduce the risk...

Not long ago, I wrote of how the English language is being destroyed by the stupidity of feminism. Well, today I've found another perfect example of how feminism is making our language trite and silly. The example turns up in a report on new prehistoric discoveries near Stonehenge, in Hampshire, England. Apparently, a pair of Neolithic tombs was discovered in the English countryside and researchers are all excited. I can’t say I blame them for this is very interesting news. It isn't the discovery that served as a vehicle for a stupid feminazi trick, though, but the coverage. Tucked into...

Israel and England UK - A Cross Cultural Study Guide For Doing Business, Dating By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel ---- June 14, 2009 ...... Please allow me to begin with a word of caution. England and Israel are about as different as day and night. From perceptions of space, time, money, clothes and dress, you will need a professional cross-cultural guide to help you survive through your first days in Tel Aviv or London. Perhaps the only element that Israel and the UK share are common democratic values. The Leyden Communications Group - a full service, worldwide...

In just three hours of savage, face-to-face fighting in a Northumberland field, 15,000 men lost their lives in the most brutal of ways. The scale of the butchery in 1513 at the Battle of Flodden, near the village of Branxton, is astonishing in an age well before the mechanised killing capabilities of modern artillery. At the end, the Scots King James IV, most of his accompanying nobility and 10,000 of their countrymen lay dead. Now the first steps have been taken to plan how this momentous battle's 500th anniversary should be marked in just over four years' time. For the...

British street preacher Andy Robertson says all he wants from his community in eastern England is the freedom to disagree. Police have threatened to arrest the U.K. preacher for allegedly making homophobic statements. Once a month Andy Robertson makes his way to this street corner in Gainsborough, England. He says he's been doing it for ten years as part of the Open Air Mission, a Christian organization that first began street preaching in England 146 years ago.

European elections 2009: Labour loses 'uncrackable bastion' of WalesLabour has lost its last "uncrackable bastion" after being forced into second place in Wales for the first time since 1918, David Cameron has claimed. By Simon Johnson Published: 6:29PM BST 08 Jun 2009 The Tory leader travelled to Cardiff to celebrate the results after his party won the largest share of the Welsh popular vote in the European election. The disastrous result cost Labour an MEP and leaves it, the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the UK Independence Party with one Welsh seat each in the European parliament. Labour blamed its dire...

ARMED cops patrolling Heathrow Airport have been banned from wearing tiny Union Jack badges in support of British troops. Top brass claimed the tie-pin badges - which cost £1 with proceeds going to the Help for Heroes charity - were OFFENSIVE. But one officer asked: "How can the Union Jack be offensive? "This ruling is even more absurd coming this weekend on the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings. "We must be the only country ashamed to display our national flag." Pride About 100 officers in the Metropolitan force's SO18 Aviation branch, which patrols Heathrow, bought the inch-square badges. Seventy...

A judge in England sentenced a teenage girl to stay home every night of the week but Saturday for an assault she committed at a party. "I give you one day off a week because it is summer and I don't think it is necessarily in your interests for you to be confined to your home every evening of the week for the next two months,"

Christians in the UK Facing Increasing Official Discrimination: Poll By Hilary White LONDON, June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A poll conducted by the Sunday Telegraph has found that thousands of Christians in Britain fear losing job promotions and are being harassed at work because of their religious beliefs. The poll has been released at the same time that reports that Britain is becoming increasingly hostile to Christian believers are increasing. In the Telegraph poll, one in five said they had faced “opposition” at work because of their beliefs. Over half said they had suffered from some kind of “persecution” at...

6/2/2009 - ROYAL AIR FORCE MILDENHALL, England (AFNS) -- A group of veterans, college students and faculty members were joined by members of the 100th Air Refueling Wing to honor the heroes of World War II, particularly those who participated in the allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day June 1 at Thorpe Abbots, England. The airfield at Thorpe Abbots was once the home of the 100th Bomb Group, whose legacy and "Box D" tail marker are carried on by the Airmen and aircraft of the 100th ARW today. The Royal Air Force Mildenhall honor guard, along with Bagpiper Dave Harper,...

Wednesday, 27 May 2009 Religious Freedom in England Today ( On the 20th May I gave a talk on Religious Freedom to the Young Catholics Group at the Brompton Oratory a number of people have asked me for a copy of what I said so here it is) I begin by referring to a story that some of you may have heard of a couple of years ago a Crematorium in Devon removed its crosses on the basis that they did not want to Cause Offence” to non Christians and in particular to Muslims. The subject of this Crematorium was...

Queen Elizabeth II will not attend the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in France, even if France extends an invitation, Buckingham Palace said. The queen was not on the initial invitation list and palace officials say even if France issues a belated invitation to next week's ceremony in Normandy, no member of the royal family will be able to attend, The Daily Mail reported Thursday. The government of French President Nicolas Sarkozy this week described the event as "very much a Franco-American occasion," which will be attended by U.S. President Barack Obama. The French said the commemoration would be...

Barack Obama's brother-in-law is to challenge for the Conservative seat left vacant by disgraced MP Andrew MacKay in Bracknell. Ian Manners, a life-long Tory who lives in Bracknell constituency, plans to pick up the gauntlet thrown down by David Cameron to encourage candidates from a non-political background. Mr Manners acted after his MP was forced to announce he will stand down following a public outcry last week when his constituents in Bracknell, Berkshire, called him "a thieving toad". The politician, a former parliamentary aide to the Conservative leader, and his MP wife, Julie Kirkbride, have claimed a total of...

Much has been written about the Insight, Honda’s new low-priced hybrid. We’ve been told how much carbon dioxide it produces, how its dashboard encourages frugal driving by glowing green when you’re easy on the throttle and how it is the dawn of all things. The beginning of days. So far, though, you have not been told what it’s like as a car; as a tool for moving you, your friends and your things from place to place. So here goes. It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing...

Rats across Britain are evolving a resistance to poison that makes them almost impossible to kill, scientists have warned. Genetic mutations have produced a new breed of "super rat" with DNA that protects the vermin from standard toxins, according to Professor Robert Smith at the University of Huddersfield. Ratcatchers in Berkshire and Hampshire were the first to report that their poisons were no longer effective, which experts put down to increased immunity among the pests.