Katherine Stewart has reservations about Muslim teaching methods, and the damage they may be doing to vulnerable young minds: Much of fundamentalist home schooling is driven by deeply sexist and patriarchal ideology. The Koranic movement teaches that women need to submit to their husbands and have as many babies as they possibly can. The effects of these ideas on children are devastating, as a glance at HA’s blogs show. “The…
The local authority said the judge ordered Mr Catt to pay the council’s costs in relation to one of these. The amount of these costs has not yet been agreed. But Mr Catt said: “I am protected from costs by legal aid. That’s what they do not like.” Yeah, well partly that’s because spending public money is seen as their job, I suppose. Me, I’m not too happy about it because I’d…
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…
Mavis Masarirambi had agreed to be repatriated after her asylum bid was rejected, and had been staying at a property in Cobridge provided by a Government contractor. But last Thursday she was told she would have to leave the house – despite the fact that arrangements were being made for her to fly back home within days. Well, yes. There’s probably a Department of Removals and a Department of Rentals…
A new cycle superhighway and the extension to another will increase the amount of time other road users spend locked in traffic jams, engineers have revealed. Eh..? Who, exactly, thought this conclusion was somehow hidden? Who thought you could somehow work on the roads in central London, altering their shape and dimensions permanently, without disruption? By 2026 says the report, the benefits of more people cycling will start to outweigh…
…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…
Phillipa Perry (last seen whining about attitudes to disability) on those alcohol consumption figures and why we should just shut up and tell our betters the truth if we know what’s good for us: If we put to one side mistakes such as not knowing the actual size of a unit of alcohol, it is apparent that our concern to retain a certain self-image is more important to us than our…
…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?…
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…
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…
Manslaughter charges brought against a fireworks display organiser after a crash on the M5 which killed seven people, including a Bristol lorry driver, have been dropped. Oh, he still faces charges, but not so severe ones: Peter Blair QC, prosecuting, said a “firm decision” had now been made to prosecute Counsell under the Health and Safety at Work Act for failing to ensure the safety of others. So…why were manslaughter…
Every morning, one of the first things Caroline Longley sees is her daughter Emily’s fake fur coat hanging in the hallway. It was one of her most beloved possessions, and something of a trademark, but 17-year-old Emily left it behind on her last visit home, telling her sister Hannah she could wear it and return it in the summer. Hannah never got the opportunity to hand it back. Weeks later,…
Morale among social workers has been driven to rock bottom by… Persistent failure to get to grips with serious cases resulting in death of ghildren? The high-profile managers exposed as less use than chocolate teapots? The overweening ‘don’t rock the boat’ attitude of senior management? Well, no. You might as well expect fish to be driven to rock bottom by water. … cuts, targets and ministers making the issue of…
…they are merely chess pieces on a board, and the game is ‘Social Cohesion’. It’s like ‘Risk, only with the potential for far more warfare: American-style “bussing” should be introduced in London to break down the segregated school system, a leading headteacher said today. Oh, and how dim do you have to be to come up with this idea? The idea was put forward by David Levin, head of the…
Shared houses and bedsits in a Lincolnshire town may need to be licensed under new proposals. The policy has been put forward as a solution to tensions that councillors say have arisen from a growing population and Eastern European immigration. And just how will it do that? Are the licenses going to be restricted? The idea is one of 28 recommendations in a major report on social issues in the…
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