Trevor Phillips, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality, has warned that the recent debates over muslims wearing veils, the “positive” discrimination in favour of muslims and the discrimination against christians may end up leading to race riots. Good.  Let the likes of the Islamic Human Rights Commission and the Muslim Council of Britain [...]

Mrs Sane’s cousin owns a posh restaurant in Chester (Micheal Owen goes there from time to time) so we went for a meal today. It’s only a small restaurant – 40 odd seats – but at £16 for 3 courses of some of the best food I’ve eaten (and believe me, I’ve eaten a lot [...]

I kid you not, Tesco are selling halal Ramadan advent calendars.  I went to Tesco yesterday and there they were, on the end of one of the aisles.  Looked like they’d been selling quite well too.

Clare Short has resigned from the Labour Stazi and will spend remain as an independent MP until the next election when she will stand down. She was reprimanded recently for saying she hoped there would be a hung parliament after the next election and for criticising the party and Traitor Blair. Full story: BBC News

Criminals are now being locked up in English police cells at huge cost because all our prisons are full. The British government is now considering building prison ships to take the strain. Prison ships are a good idea for certain types of prisoners – those who are likely to try and escape for instance – [...]

A known paedophile kidnapped a 6 year old girl while she was in the bath, violently raped her and left her naked in a lane. He molested a 12 year old girl 5 years ago, was caught and locked up.  He was released after 2 years because a judge thought he was sorry for what [...]

Front page on todays Dail Mail: Medical apartheid as English cancer patients are denied life-extending drug Terminal cancer patients accused Health Secretary of condemning them to death because they are English after the NHS drug rationing body refused to fund a new wonder drug that is available in Scotland. Patricia Hewitt came under fire from [...]

I’m back. Mrs Sane and I managed to get away without the kids for a few days to go back to Alvaston Hall, the no-kids-allowed hotel we went to last year.  Missing the tropicarium (like a sauna but not as hot), sauna, steam room and spa already …

Yes, I know I’ve been on holiday about 4 times already this year but I’m going again.  We’re going back to Alvaston Hall in Nantwich, the no-kids hotel we went to last year.  Five days of peace, quiet and relaxation without the children.  Feel a bit guilty about leaving the kids behind of course but it’s [...]

Ruth Kelly says that we need to fight extremism which includes the “still poisonous” far right (presumably she means the left-wing socialist border-line Communist BNP).  She says that the British government will be working with colleges and universities to combat extremism that festers there. Lord Nazir Ahmed trots out the usual durge about muslims being victims.  [...]

I was tinkering with the widgets for the West Midlands NO! blog and spotted one called “Meebo”.  In the spirit of online adventure I visited meebo.com and I’m certainly glad I did! Basically, it’s a kind of web messenger with a twist.  If you’ve ever used Trillian you’ll recognise the functionality.  You can log in to [...]

A school in Kent forced a pupil to eat his lunch outside the dinner hall because his packed lunch breached their guidelines on healthy eating. The school has a rule that meals are allowed a maximum of 2 snacks but 10 year old Ryan Stupples had a fromage frais yoghurt, a packet of cheese biscuits [...]

A BA check-in employee has been suspended for refusing to remove the small crucifix that she wore (the size of a 5p piece). However, BA do allow a head scarf, turban and bangles to be worn conspicuously but a crucifix must be covered up.

Northern Ireland will, if all goes to plan, have its devolved government restored by March 2007. The “St Andrews Agreement” will include: A financial package (ie. they will be given more English taxes) The introduction of a Victims Commissioner for Northern Ireland (because 73% of the population being officially designated victims already isn’t enough) A [...]

Somebody needs a slap, any volunteers? A 14 year old girl was accused of being a racist at school, put into isolation and then a week later was arrested by the police and questioned for 4 hours before being released without charge. Her crime?  She was put in a group for a science lesson with [...]

Source: BBC News A muslim woman has been suspended for refusing to remove her veil when teaching English. Staff and pupils had complained that they found her hard to understand when she was wearing her veil.  The school has a lot of children who speak English as a second language and they need to be able [...]

The European Federation wants to force car drivers to use their headlights at all times. The British government says it will result in the death of more motorcyclists because their riding lights will no long make them stand out from the crowd but they have admitted that they will be unable to veto a directive forcing motorists [...]

The Illiberal Democrats are up shit creek without a paddle. They received a £2.4m donation from 5th Avenue Partners Ltd, a company that the High Court has ruled is entirely fraudulent and has never traded.  Electoral law says that a company must be carrying on business in the UK to be allowed to make a donation [...]

Boris Johnson has got out his special laser-guided hammer and hit the nail right on the head over the Iran and North Korea nuclear bomb “story”. He suggests that Iran should be allowed, maybe even helped, to develop nuclear weapons in the hope that it will put the Americans off invading saving them.  As he [...]

The British government is offering funding to Islamic groups that can “prove” they are tackling extremism. Massoud Shadjareh of the Islamic Human Rights Commission says “The deliberate confusion surrounding the word extremism is a ploy by the government to use its financial muscle to socially engineer a new brand of Islam”. Any complaints if the [...]