Bookworm on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England
Later today, a government’s representative is going to make the following important announcements:
Western governments have “the moral imperative to intervene - sometimes militarily - to help spread democracy throughout the world.”
The same speaker says that “fostering democracy in the Middle East ‘is the best long-term defence against global terrorism and conflict.’”
He feels that keeping democracy [...]
Bookworm on Feb 10 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Law
I was trying to set up a post that selectively quotes from Melanie Phillips’ articles explaining the utter insanity behind the Archbishop of Canterbury’s muddled remarks about bringing sharia law into the British legal system — but I couldn’t. Each paragraph is so information-packed and important that (a) I couldn’t pick what to quote [...]
Bookworm on Feb 09 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Medicine
Britain’s health care system is again having problems. This time, the problem is that physicians are over-prescribing painkillers, causing addictive behavior — and doing so despite strong official guidelines to the contrary. This could just be a medical trend, but one does wonder if it’s also because doctor’s in Britain are no longer very good? [...]
Bookworm on Feb 07 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Religion
The most famous Archbishop of Canterbury was the martyred Thomas a Becket, a man who was ostensibly the victim of a political assassination, yet who essentially died for his faith. He’d been a hard living young man but, when his best friend Henry II invested him as Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important seat [...]
Bookworm on Feb 03 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England
The AP phrases the story as one about Brits “losing their grip on reality” because they think historical figures are mythical. This is not a reality problem, though. This is sheer pig-ignorance, the end result of a country that is so busy teaching political correctness, that it has phased out teaching its own [...]
Bookworm on Jan 27 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Islam
A nice story of genuine heroism out of Britain:
Among the new Britons taking part in citizenship ceremonies today will be one man who has already put his life on the line to protect his adopted country.
Reda Hassaine will stand in Islington Town Hall, North London, to affirm allegiance to the Queen and pledge to give [...]
Bookworm on Jan 26 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Islam
From Mark Steyn:
My favorite headline of the year so far comes from The Daily Mail in Britain: “Government Renames Islamic Terrorism As ‘Anti-Islamic Activity’ To Woo Muslims.”
Her Majesty’s government is not alone in feeling it’s not always helpful to link Islam and the, ah, various unpleasantnesses with suicide bombers and whatnot. Even in his cowboy [...]
Bookworm on Jan 19 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Climate change, England
I would dearly love to see us stop funding Islamists by buying oil from the Middle East. To me, that means two things: examining our own oil sources (ANWAR, anyone?) and/or developing alternative energies. As everyone who visits this blog knows, though, I’ve been extremely hostile to biofuels, which I believe will [...]
Bookworm on Jan 11 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
My drug of choice is chocolate. I’ve always hated the taste of alcohol and the one time I got drunk I found it to be a very distasteful process, whether I was looking at the actual drinking part (blech) or the subsequent hangover (double blech). I’ve also gotten stoned once, which I found [...]
Bookworm on Jan 11 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence
The phrase “honor killing” doesn’t show up anywhere in this article, but it sound remarkably as if a much-abused young British woman was murdered because she refused to marry the Pakistani man her parents had picked for her:
A coroner this morning returned a verdict of unlawful killing on a Muslim teenager who vanished from home [...]
Bookworm on Jan 06 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence
British mosques are not simply preaching religious morals:
Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood” for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found.
Riyadh ul Haq, who supports armed jihad and preaches contempt for [...]
Bookworm on Jan 03 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Health
Yesterday, I read that the British health care and ambulance services had been devastated by New Year’s drunkenness, a self-inflicted illness for which I, as a tee-totaller, have little sympathy. If you vomit because you got blitzed, serves you right.
Today, however, I read something that caused me to feel serious sympathy for the beleaguered, [...]
Bookworm on Jan 01 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Health, Medicine
Britain’s ailing national health care system continues to try to heal itself, usually at patient’s expense. I don’t know about you, but this proposal doesn’t strike me as something that’s going to result in improved health care:
Millions of people with arthritis, asthma and even heart failure will be urged to treat themselves as part [...]
Bookworm on Dec 12 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Children
I posted earlier today about a friend’s elementary school, which has banned recess-time soccer and football in the wake of a child’s injury while playing football. America isn’t the only place having a problem with the fact that kids take their knocks when they play. England, guided by the EU, is being encouraged to make [...]
Bookworm on Dec 11 2007 | Filed under: England
Newest figures out of the UK:
One in five babies born in Britain last year was born to a woman from overseas, according to the first official analysis of the impact of migration on fertility.
Immigrant mothers are having far more children than their British counterparts - fuelling the biggest rise in population since the 1960s baby [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2007 | Filed under: Britain
Oy vey:
A sperm donor who helped a lesbian couple have two children is now being forced to pay thousands of pounds for their upbringing, he said.
Andy Bathie, 37, agreed to assist Sharon and Terri Arnold - who were united in a religious blessing ceremony - after they assured him he would have no involvement in [...]
Bookworm on Nov 28 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Silly Stuff
I’ve been thinking lately about self-perpetuation. Although I can’t remember the source of their outrage, Mr. Bookworm told me that Greenpeace is outraged by something. Hearing that, the thought popped into my mind that, well, if they’re not outraged about something, they may as well disband.
I read somewhere, and I can’t remember where, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Israel
England recently made a very big to do over a state visit from the King of Saudi Arabia, the land in which women are veiled, rape victims are beaten, thieves are dislimbed, and Bible owners are imprisoned and killed. That place. That place that is the antithesis of all Western values. However, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
As you may know, France2 has been in French court defending its early judgment against a suit accusing it of promoting the false al-Dura video. Things are not going well for France2, though, as Media Backspin explains. (H/t Soccer Dad.)
Cranky Brit Pat Condell launches a pretty damn accurate attack against Islamists and White [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I really, really, really have to work now, but I wanted to make sure you knew about Melanie Phillip’s heart-breaking description of the violent antisemitism that is increasingly on the rise in Britain. I used to be a passionate Anglophile, considering it the more civilized among nations, with a flawed history (and what nation doesn’t [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Saudi Arabia
I don’t know which protocol officer slipped up, but from the first second you hear the music, you’ll feel as I did when I viewed this British produced video about the Saudi king’s visit to Britain:
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Bookworm on Oct 27 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Health
I won’t add anything here, since I think you can draw your own conclusions:
Record numbers of Britons are flying abroad for medical treatment to escape NHS waiting lists and the rising threat of hospital superbugs.
More than 70,000 Britons will have treatment abroad this year, a figure that is forecast to rise
Thousands of “health tourists” are [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2007 | Filed under: Britain
Britain continues to confuse me. Four men who had an orgy in a public park received formal apologies because fire fighters stared at them. On the other hand, a man getting it on with bicycle (yes, that’s not a typo) was arrested and placed on a sex offenders list. If you can [...]
Bookworm on Oct 23 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Jihad, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence
I’m not saying this is the inevitable by-product of multiculturalism, but it’s very clear that, as to one Scottish young man, he failed completely to acquire a European/Scottish/British identity:
A British-born Muslim student has been jailed for eight years for a series of Islamist terrorism offences.
Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, a shopkeeper’s son who has been described [...]
Bookworm on Oct 23 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Health
Yes, it’s been a quiet blogging day for me. It’s a combination of work and mental stultification. Nevertheless, I was intrigued by this article describing how dreadfully ill the British are:
Britain has been branded “the sick man of Europe” after a Government report revealed a nation blighted by record levels of obesity, alcohol abuse, diabetes [...]
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