Ellie Mae O’Hagen on those disquieting austerity poll results: This week’s crisis is brought to you by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which has released a report showing that attitudes of the British public towards poverty have hardened – and the most marked shift has been among Labour voters. Whoops! These days only 27% of Labour supporters cite social injustice as the main cause of poverty, down from 41% in 1986.…
Tesco has defended its decision to label a children’s chemistry set a boys’ toy, despite criticism from gender equality campaigners. Oh. Those. Campaigners from Let Toys Be Toys, an online pressure group that is calling on retailers not to limit children’s development by promoting separate “boys’” and “girls’” toys, said that Tesco’s labelling of its “Action Science Chemistry Set” was sexist. A bunch of people with too much time on…
A formal complaint was made to Lancashire Police about ‘Babs’ who has been at the centre of a growing row in Clitheroe. Some residents have been calling for her removal from public view in the window of The Time Train retro shop where she has been standing for the past five months. And by ‘some residents’, I suspect we are talking about (as with the recent Enid Blyton controversy) a…
RSPCA Inspector Steven Craddock said: “We believe they were dumped around teatime on April 22. “If anyone saw a vehicle or horse box in that lane around that time and took a note of the registration number we would like to speak to them. “ Why worry about the car registration? Aren’t horses supposed to be registered? Check the tattoo or microchip! Oh. Wait. Bit odd, then, that the RSPCA…
At a licensing meeting held yesterday it was revealed how the authority area was now the second worst in Yorkshire and the Humber for such violence, with figures showing: Up to 40 per cent of arrests are associated with alcohol misuse – that is 140 arrests per month linked to alcohol abuse. Ah, those weasel words – ‘linked to’. We all know just how they use that phrase, don’t we? Of…
Residents have accused the city council of “insensitivity” – by allowing dogs or cats to be kept in their supported block of flats. Errr…. Usually, it’s seen as ‘insensitive’ not to allow them to keep a pet, isn’t it? Gilton House, in Brislington, contains 46 flats for people over the age of 60 and provides tenants, some of whom have mobility problems or disabilities, with extra support. Until recently, no…
Eric Samuel MBE, CEO of Community Food Enterprise, says Barking and Dagenham is rife with areas where affordable healthy food is scarce or difficult to access. It is? News to those of us who grew up there and still have occasion to visit or pass through! He said: “Barking and Dagenham is by far the worst. If you look around the Thames View Estate in Barking you will see there…
A man who has had five dogs stolen in just over a year has called for council dog warden procedures to be overhauled. Steve Jones from Compton, Berkshire, said he was charged hundreds of pounds after some of his dogs were found. He said: “I don’t know who the bigger crooks are, the council or the thieves.” Usually, I’d say the council. But…not in this case. You see, there’s such…
…we aren’t that far behind them: According to MSNBC, Fox News Baltimore, and a host of other media outlets, the latest case of OMG (oh my gosh, or perhaps it should be called “oh my guns”) an incident involving Josh Welch, a 7-year-old second grade student at Park Elementary School in the Brooklyn Park area of Baltimore, Maryland, made the news on Friday when the boy was suspended from school…
In London, where I live, the fact that we have the best schools in the country is meaningless at a local level, where there’s a chronic shortage of non-denominational, non-selective, mixed-sex school places. Does it really matter if you don’t have those things, if you have ‘the best schools in the country’? Clearly, results speak for themselves! Don’t they? From the outset, our approach was pragmatic rather than ideological: to…
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…
…and isn’t this a prime example? Sex shops and lap-dancing clubs should be banned in Nottingham, says the county’s Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner.Chris Cutland claims they are “old fashioned” and “demeaning” to women. Yup, the person appointed to the position of making sure the police serve the neighbourhood rather than pursuing pointless politically correct campaigns dives right in with…a politically correct campaign! You couldn’t make it up, could you?…
It’s no secret that Facebook distracts students. Being able to interact with your friends at the click of a button is not conducive to hard-core study. And thanks to Spotted pages – university-wide Facebook pages where members can post comments about people they see in the library– it’s not just students’ close friends who are interrupting their studies. Naturally, to the progressives, this expression of ideas and opinions is the…
When the kids have rumbled the flaw in your grand plan, you know you’ve lost… Pupil Jake Phillips, 15, said that “speakeasies” are starting up selling the prohibited drinks. “There is business potential now there’s a gap in the market,” he said.“Gangsters sold alcohol in America when that was banned. Prohibition always leads to supply and demand. That means anyone who sneaks it in can make a lot of money.”…
Knives, blades and ‘BB’ guns are being locked up by Lewisham businesses to help protect the public. There are 28 businesses – including shops and butchers – which have signed up to a Responsible Retailers Agreement in the fight against knife crime in Lewisham. Larger kitchen-type knives, lighters and age-restricted toys such as ‘BB’ guns will be kept locked away and out of sight. I wonder what happens if you…
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