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  • Orwellian Britain

    12/12/2005 5:55:32 AM PST · by robowombat · 7 replies · 539+ views
    Daily Mail ^ | December 12, 2005 | Melanie Phillips
    Orwellian Britain December 12, 2005 Daily Mail, 12 December 2005 When the new Civil Partnership Act came into force last week, family values campaigner Lynette Burrows took part in a discussion on BBC Radio Five Live about its implications. During the programme, Ms Burrows said she did not believe that homosexuals should be allowed to adopt. Placing boys with two homosexuals for adoption, she said, was as obvious a risk as placing a girl with two heterosexual men who offered themselves as parents. To her astonishment, the following day she was contacted by the police who said a ‘homophobic incident’...
  • Mark Steyn: What is a crime? It's a matter of opinion

    12/12/2005 3:56:35 PM PST · by Pokey78 · 43 replies · 1,727+ views
    The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 12/13/05 | Mark Steyn
    All over the United Kingdom, right now, real crimes are being committed: mobiles are being nicked, front doors are being kicked in, bollards are being lobbed through bus shelters - just to name some of the lighter activities that add so much to the gaiety of the nation. None of these is a "priority crime", as you'll know if you've ever endured the bureaucratic time-waster of reporting a burglary. So what is a "priority crime"? Well, the other day, the author Lynette Burrows went on a BBC Five Live show to talk about the government's new "civil partnerships" and expressed...