I had an interesting debate with Sunny Hundal of Liberal Conspiracy the other day over whether the Bishop of Rochester is a bigot or not. Sunny took the position that, because Bishop Nazir-Ali had condemned the creation of no-go areas for non-Muslims, but had failed to identify one, he (the Bishop) was a bigot. I found this a bit of a stretch, and pointed Sunny to a report by a former race relations adviser in Bradford which seemed to be saying that such areas did in fact exist. By strange coincidence today’s Telegraph carries a report about two Christian preachers being threatened by police under hate crimes legislation for proselytising in a Muslim area . The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a "hate crime" and were told they risked being beaten up if they returned. Now obviously, this is police doing the enforcing, but, if true, it represents further support for the Bishop’s claims. The outraged among us will notice t...
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Referendum or notFrom: bishophill.squarespace.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 11:21:37
There’s a lot of tit-for-tat politicking going on at the moment over who wanted a referendum and who didn’t and when and why. The Conservatives were against a referendum on Maastricht (but it wasn’t in their manifesto then, so that was OK apparently). Labour and the LibDems said that they wanted one on the constitution in their manifestos but the cover of the Lisbon Treaty is blue, and the Constitution one is red, so it’s OK, OK? And the LibDems say they’re...
more Blogger accused of having blood on his handsFrom: bishophill.squarespace.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 11:05:46
John Adams is probably better described as an expert on risk than as a blogger, but we’ll let that pass. A commenter has accused him of being complicit in the death of a driver in New Zealand. The driver was not wearing a seatbelt when killed, an offence he’d been convicted for many times previously, and the commenter reckons Adams is to blame because of his stated views on seatbelts. (OK, so the guy was also high on drugs too, but....) I’m reading Adams’ boo...
more Olympic securityFrom: bishophill.squarespace.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 22:45:36
According to an article in the Times, builders working on the Olympic site in London are going to have to pass through stringent security checks , just to get in: About 100,000 workers at the Olympics site in London are to be screened using advanced face and palm recognition techniques in one of the largest and most expensive security operations undertaken on a British construction project. I just wonder if anyone in government asked the suppliers to guarantee that all this equipment still ...
more Ellee SeymourFrom: bishophill.squarespace.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 22:30:38
Ellee Seymour has a post up about issuing firearms certificates to children. A Freedom of Information request found that an 11-year-old has been given a shotgun licence by police already this year, while in 2006 a 10-year-old was handed one. In the past five years, 182 under-16s have received shotgun licences from Suffolk police which are valid for five years. Ellee comes across as a nice person, but with the traditional politician’s love of banning things. She’ll feel right at ...
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