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Racial hatred arrest for internet blogger

A whiff of the Stasi for an outspoken blogger, although his seeking political asylum in the USA amongst the fundamentalist Bible-Belt may give the game away. BY JESSICA CUNNIFFE A blogger from Dunstable has been arrested and released on bail for allegedly stirring up racial hatred. Paul RayPaul Ray, who uses the pseudonym Lionheart on [keep reading...]

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EDL founder guilty over football brawl

Should we be sympathetic to the founder of the EDL caught up in an ugly chanting crowd, or not surprised he just happened to be at the front leading the chant The founder of the English Defence League has been convicted of leading a brawl involving up to 100 football fans. Stephen Lennon, 28, appeared [keep reading...]

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If there was no need for this type of business then why does it exist?

It was Rene Descartes who wrote “I think therefore I am” – the starting point for a method of analysis whose foundations were to be impregnable. Descartes was so certain of his own certainty he believed he’d proved the existence of God. Even a genius can be wrong! Like all of us, Descartes was limited [keep reading...]

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Churches respond to mosque attack

So the yobs, thugs and lynchmobs are out. Violence, against people or property, never works. Give peace a chance – as John Lennon said. Churches across Luton have responded to the attacks on Friday morning on the Madina Mosque in Oak Road. Here is a letter sent to the mosque: Dear friends at Madina Masjid, [keep reading...]

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The righteous path

There’s so much righteous anger tied into the News International/News Corp/NoW/BSkyB feeding frenzy that objectivity is nowhere in sight. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides with the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men”. It sounds so biblical. But, like the MPs basking in the glory of [keep reading...]

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ABSs at risk of criminal ownership, Law Society warns

Once again the Con-Dems, in particular, the Ministry of Justice, has failed to think through policy. This time it is with respect to the Big Bang of Alternative Business Structures due to explode in October this year. BY CATHERINE BAKSI The Law Society is pressing the Ministry of Justice to make an urgent amendment to [keep reading...]

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MP ticked off after hitting the roof

There were reasons to wonder that Luton South MP seemed so young, and now it appears from his puerile behaviour that he is indeed as young as he looks. Naughty MP GGavin Shuker outside Westminsteravin Shuker was ‘very sorry’ after being caught on the roof of the Houses of Parliament last week having ventured up [keep reading...]

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The Spineless and the Sycophants

I see the Government as represented in the House of Lords by Lord McNally, Justice Minister, is now “sympathetic” to a ban on referral fees. Joy unbounded. But. Yes, there is a but. And the but is: – ?? But. But. But. What does sympathetic mean? Exactly? Sympathetic. Political speke for: I’ll think about it. [keep reading...]

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An unfavourable curry

Please excuse my callousness, but there is something farcical about a woman stuck in a pot of hot curry. I don’t mean to decry the appalling suffering of Mrs Sudesh Bala. Nor do I intend to excuse the failure of her employer. But it’s hard not to have a picture in your mind like the [keep reading...]

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Worker’s burns injury prompts safety fears

Even in the 21st century some employers seem to regard the duty to protect employees from injury as low down on their scale of priorities. BY CHRISTINA JOHNSON A woman who slipped into an industrial cooking pot containing 50kg of steaming hot curry highlights the dangers for workers from proposed Government cuts to health and [keep reading...]

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