The Ministry of Justice has decided to include Wales in a new bill to introduce specific offences relating to mental and physical abuse in hospitals.  The Welsh government said they didn’t need the law but some Liebour MPs and a peer complained and the MoJ has changed its mind.
I’ve spent a lot more than average […]

I thought I’d mistakenly typed the wrong url in and got a spoof version of the BBC News website when I read this but no, it’s not a joke.
Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, says that adopting Sharia Law in the UK is inevitible and we should just get on with it.  He says […]

Archbishop Cranmer tells us about a muslim Marks & Spencers shop assistant who refused to sell a childrens book of bible stories because it was “unclean”.
There have been quite a few stories of late about muslim shop assistants at supermarkets refusing to sell alcohol and, in some cases, to even stack shelves in the alcohol […]

Hazel Blears, the Communities Minister, is going to tell local authorities and public bodies to stop needlessly translating documents.
Documents are routinely translated into any number of foreign languages so that foreigners who don’t speak English don’t feel left out.  The City of Westminster has gone further and started translating road signs into Polish.
Blears says that there is […]

A black man has had a whinge that his complaint about a market trader hasn’t been taken seriously enough.
The market trader, foul heathen fiend that he is, has been selling … I can hardly bring myself to say it … Golliwoggs.
Apparently, the man brings children from ethnic minorities to Market Drayton and he thinks they […]

Yet another new offence came into being yesterday - inciting religious hatred.
The hand-wringing apologists that brought about the incitement to racial hatred laws, where you don’t have to actually incite racial hatred to commit an offence but just need to say something that someone who isn’t white and English might take offence at, have been […]

An 18 year old girl has been refused permission to apply for a job with the  Environment Agency because she is white and English.
The application form asked for ethnic origin and included “White Other, eg. Irish, Welsh, Scottish”.  The application said that preference would be given to those from minorities.  When asked if being White English ruled […]

A black binman from Burnley has been banned from wearing his Cross of St George bandana at work because it might be racist and/or offensive.
Pendle Council told Matthew Carter that they had received complaints and gave him a verbal warning.  He was told that he is not allowed to wear any clothing with a Cross […]

The DTI is using taxpayers money to fund a “task force” to investigate barriers to black and ethnic minority businesses.
Apparently, black and ethnic minority business owners find it harder to get finance for their business than white people born here.
The “task force” looks like being another one of these unelected, taxpayer funded regional quangos if […]

The British government is going to distribute a family survey to see if parents support a total ban on smacking children.
The law was changed a couple of years ago so that if you smack your child hard enough to leave a mark you are guilty of assault and can be banged up for it.

Of course […]

According to the Daily Mail, an open-air chapel at Belchamps Scout Centre in Essex has been cleansed of christian symbols to make it more inclusive.
The chapel was built in woodland by volunteers between the two world wars and has been used by Scouts, Brownies, Guides and even couples getting married, regardless of their religion.  However, sandal-wearing, […]

An bunch of god-botherers and navel-gazing, beared, lentil eating, hemp wearing lefty liberal apologists have decided that St George is just too offensive and needs to be reinvented so that he’s more inclusive.
A report called “When The Saints Go Marching Out: Redefining St George For A New Era” says:
“It is time that St George was reclaimed […]

I was making the kids lunches this morning half-watching BBC Breakfast and they had a Sikh and a black guy on the sofa talking about the police.
I turned it up expecting to hear some claptrap about how the police are institutionally racist for picking on the minority groups responsible for the largest proportion of violent […]

The Healthcare Commission is calling for hospitals to monitor the ethnicity of patients because their research has shown that black and asians are more likely to be admitted to a mental hospital.
There doesn’t appear to be any suggestion that this is because of institutional racism or that black and asian patients are being targetted unfairly so […]