The nine men convicted of the organised criminal abuse of girls in the North West of England has again raised discussions about the part played by the perpetrators’ race in the crimes. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Edwards of West Mercia police has called for an end to the ‘damaging taboo’…
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I went to see Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull yesterday evening at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff. A friend of mine entered a competition run by Roland UK through Facebook and drew my attention to it, so I entered the competition too, not expecting anything to come of it (I can’t…
I recently saw a link to this article on a friend’s Facebook wall: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/man-whose-wmd-lies-led-to-100000-deaths-confesses-all-7606236.html Following on from George Galloway’s recent victory in the Bradford West by-election, it re-ignited a burning question in my mind – When did the Left lose its sense of internationalism? The whole controversy over the ‘sexed-up’…
Just been explaining cultural (and temporal) relativism to our eldest daughter. She’s (rightly) been learning about naughty imperial practices in Britain’s past. I just wanted her to know that history can always be viewed from several perspectives. Judging past behaviour by today’s values is dangerous and fails to consider the…