These are the two men police want to speak to after a customer was smashed over the head with a glass bottle in an unprovoked attack at a violence-plagued Manchester city centre takeaway. It’s shocking, this violence at late-night take aways. Someone should do something about it. Oh. Wait! Last week the M.E.N. revealed that the takeaway, in Manchester’s Gay Village, had been banned from opening late at night after…
Is it going to be the dreadful Arnott, who insists that the War on Smoke won’t end in disaster? Or is it going to be the businessmen who point out that yes, yes it is: Shop owners say the illegal tobacco market in Notts is now so big it is cutting their genuine sales by as much as a fifth.The Post reported last week how research from a tobacco firm suggests more…
Sadhbh Walshe (film-maker and CiF’s go-to gal for articles on how awful the US prison system is) is branching out, tackling the thorny subject of women’s pay ‘inequality’: To modernize Jane Austen’s famous line: it is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a good fortune must have married or inherited it.Well, OK, she may have earned it, but even if she did, the average fortune a…
Debbie Pickford, 45, was driving home, along Leeds Road, Barkerend, Bradford, with her 13-year-old daughter Leah after a trip to the cinema when she was stopped by a police patrol car. An Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) check showed that the divorcee’s 11-year-old Peugeot 206 was not insured due to a failure by her insurance company to update national records. Despite her insisting she had a valid insurance certificate at…
…until you realise you’re the one getting stuck with the bill: A 14-year race discrimination court battle has cost the taxpayer almost a million pounds. Equality campaigner Natasha Sivanandan won £420,000 in compensation after a council-funded anti-racism group turned her down for a job. A job..? In what department, I wonder? The row began in June 1999 when 58-year-old Ms Sivanandan, from Wood Green, north London, applied for a job as a…
“…a lollipop lady must go who is not herself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.” Parents are calling for the return of a popular lollipop lady who quit following threats from abusive pupils.Waving their own signs saying “Come Back Jenny” and “We Miss Jenny” they staged a demonstration at the junction of Auckland Road and Sylvan Road, in Upper Norwood. It’s come to this, has it? Good grief… Parent Michelle Hubbard…
School uniform regulations are always good for a post or two, and often get a good old ding-dong going in the comments between the ‘cherish your individuality!’ crown and the ‘we need standards!’ crowd. Personally, I favour the latter. But then along comes a story that….well… A schoolgirl who had her hair coloured pink as part of a lesson was later excluded from classes for breaking school rules when the…
Five species of invasive non-native aquatic plants are to be banned from sale, the UK government has announced. In the first ban of its kind, officials hope the move will save money and help protect vulnerable habitats. Yup, some plants are just so dangerous we can’t have them in the country. Haven’t we heard this before? So…what are they? Triffids? The plants to be banned from April 2014 are water…
After all, don’t they always say what the States have today, we’ll have tomorrow? One Direction star Niall Horan has bought a house in Los Angeles near the Kardashians with a pool and games room, but he’s not allowed a bar because he’s under 21. Not allowed by whom? Well, would you believe, by the builders he’s hired to renovate it? No. It’s not April 1st! Horan splashed out $1.5…
We all remember how Prof Mary Beard got her arse handed to her on live TV at ‘Question Time’, don’t we? Well. good. Because the narrative has shifted, she’s wrapped herself in the cloak of outraged womanhood and declared that she’s the victim of ‘trolls’ and ‘right wingers’ who mock her appearance and attack her because she’s a woman… The website owner’s protestations that this is just what’s happening notwithstanding, the…
Oh, how we love a ‘bungling council workers and road signage’ story! Misspelled signs for ‘shcool’, yellow lines painted right over badger corpses, they are guaranteed local newspaper filler. Even the MSM picks them up from time to time: Bungling council workers have ruined historic cobblestones in a picturesque market town for the second time with clumsily painted yellow lines.People living in Stamford, Lincolnshire – dubbed ‘England’s most attractive town’…
Screaming headline in the ‘Indy’: Oh noes! Disaster! Oh, the terrible Tory cuts! Anthony Douglas, chief executive of Cafcass, which safeguards the welfare of children involved in family court proceedings, said he expected to see a leap in child neglect cases as thousands of struggling families were pushed over the financial edge in the coming months. Really, Anthony? You really think so? Because I’m sceptical, to say the least: Riley…
…at least, for the progressives: In these posts, teenage girls – and sometimes boys – criticize certain body types or wardrobe choices, often being ruthless in the process. Oh noes! Criticism! That means…judgement! That means…not ‘celebrating the choices of others’! Oh, quelle horreur! So, what sort of comments are we talking about? In one such post, a blogger writes with accompanying pictures: ‘Hey girls, uhm did you know – open books,…
Unwittingly, I’m sure, as her column deals with the Westminster proposals to ensure fat people on council tax and housing benefit go to the gym on their doctor’s advice, on pains of having their welfare payments docked: There are two questions inside this ghastly story, and the first is the central question posed by this Tory-led coalition: who is entitled to the state’s largesse? What is it for? To Tanya,…
More sob-stories from the ‘Guardian’ against the ConDem’s planned benefit cuts: I don’t want my children to be sad about their lifestyle. We live in a society where peer pressure is one of the things that affects them, and I hate seeing them miss out on things because I can’t provide for them. When we walk to school and it’s raining and they ask why everyone else has a car…
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