UK Christians Unfit to Foster Children?
This is what hit the UK media on the 1st of November. The BBC reported “A Christian couple “were doomed” not to be allowed to foster children after it emerged they disapproved of homosexuality, a court...
View ArticleNoah’s Ark Coming To London?
There are plans to sail it to different places as a tourist attraction. It certainly could be a tourist attraction if it did come to London during the Olympic games. It would also be a tourist...
View Article“The Lady” Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi is a most remarkable lady. She is a lady to be admired for her great courage and determination against such adversity to uphold before her people the foremost of human values – to be...
View ArticleThe Pea Souper That Killed 12,000
I have recently come back from warmer climes to the chill of British winter. Reading the Daily Mail newspaper two phrases I remember occasionally being used when I was a young lad – the one described a...
View ArticleThe Tragedy in ‘Sandy Hook’
We in the UK have been sorrowing for a family whose wife and mother committed suicide due to a senseless hoax. That has been dwarfed by an equally senseless mass killing at ‘Sandy Hook‘ , US. America...
View ArticleNew Year 2012 Breaking IN Around The World
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View ArticleThe Mail Appeals To Ukippers: Vote Tory
Yesterday’s DAILY MAIL COMMENT said the Tories can win if they stop demonising Ukip Says the Mail, “The EU is now so corrupt, wasteful, unaccountable, and grotesquely self-serving that it has become an...
View ArticleWales: ‘The Nearly Nation’ Is My Homeland
Simon Jenkins’ essay on ‘the nearly nation’, Wales, gives this expat that feeling of nostalgia I experience every time I return to Wales to visit family and friends, and make new friends tracing family...
View ArticleSolstice V Equinox
“The solstice doesn’t always occur on 21 December. Sometimes it nudges into the early hours of 22 December, which will happen again next year. The hour of day also varies. Last year’s arrived at 17:11....
View ArticleHow Did The Giraffe’s Get Its Long Neck?
Simon Barnes, a sports and nature writer is highly esteemed by journalist colleagues. He recently left The Times to the surprise of colleagues. The cost-cutting move by The Times is thought by one...
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