In the UK parents who want to accompany their children to Christmas carol services (example above) and other festive activities are being officially vetted for criminal records in case they are paedophiles. In the latest expansion of the New Labour government’s child protection agenda, parents are checked against a database of people banned from working with children for sex offences and for other reasons. Among those affected are parents at a village primary school who have been told they m... Read Full Story

Some food for thought for former Hitler Youth and Nazi anti-aircraft gunner Pope Benedict XVI (pictured above) . The Roman Catholic church in Dublin, Ireland has for decades covered up child abuse committed by priests (doubtless now nervously playing with their rosaries, below) because bishops wanted to protect the church’s “good reputation” at the expense of the victims, an expert commission reported yesterday after a 3-year inquiry into previously secret church records. A... Read Full Story

The Bank of England, under the control of its Governor Mervyn King (pictured above) secretly loaned £61.6 billion to 2 banks at the height of the UK financial meltdown last year. Reportedly a “dire financial emergency” meant covert crisis loans were extended to the banks then in difficulty, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and the Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS), at the beginning of October 2008  -  before they were partly nationalised. The Bank of England revealed these details ... Read Full Story

UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson (pictured above) reportedly “went behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s back” last week in a last-ditch attempt to snatch the job of EU foreign supremo and abandon the Cabinet, it was claimed over the weekend. “Reliable” diplomatic sources claim Mandelson made frantic phone calls to prominent EU figures to try to persuade them to make him the EU High Representative responsible for foreign policy instead of unknown fellow New Labour ... Read Full Story

According to the incompetent, out-of-his-depth UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, The Afghan government headed up by recently “re-elected” President Hamid Karzai (pictured above) could fall within weeks if NATO pulled out its troops out of the country. Miliband was warning British opponents of the war to give the fight to rebuild the country more time. In an interview at the end of a his visit to Kabul for the recent Presidential inauguration of  Karzai, the Foreign Secretary s... Read Full Story

Meet the President of Afghanistan. Elected for a second term by means of balloting irregularities that even George W Bush might have blushed over, Hamid Karzai (pictured above, centre) was sworn in yesterday for another 5 years in the presence of such dignatories as the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the inept, incompetent UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband.  As brave Coalition soldiers continue to die to prop up his rotten regime, Karzai swore to fight corruption – even as... Read Full Story

Pictured above are the Queen and her long-serving consort Phil the Greek, as the Queen’s Speech was read out in the House of Lords yesterday setting out the expiring New Labour government’s legislative programme in the run-up to the impending general election. With less than 7 months to go before the country must go to the polls, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown used the state opening of parliament to highlight a series of initiatives designed to draw battle lines between the part... Read Full Story

It seems that British government policy is to find a way to allow the “vast majority” of Taliban fighters who are not Islamic extremists to reintegrate into Afghan society. The inept, incompetent Foreign Secretary David Miliband (pictured above) said yesterday that “dividing the insurgency” was a key part of Britain’s strategy in Afghanistan and he stressed that he did not see the conflict there as a war “without end”. Addressing the NATO parliamenta... Read Full Story

In the UK, Government appointed City regulators are to be given new powers to tear up bankers’ contracts if they include excessive pay and bonus deals which might threaten the stability of the financial system, it was revealed yesterday. The measures will be included in a Financial Services Bill forming the centrepiece of Wednesday’s Queen’s Speech, which Prime Minister Gordon Brown (pictured above) said would offer a thorough overhaul of controls over the banking industry. In a podcast on t... Read Full Story

The Iranian Supreme Leader’s representative in Britain has told UK Muslim servicemen and women to quit the British Armed Forces, saying that their involvement in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is forbidden by Islam.  In his first interview with an English language newspaper, Ayatollah Abdolhossein Moezi (pictured above), Director of the Islamic Centre of England, also said he regretted that protesters were killed by the Iranian security forces after the presidential election there in June but... Read Full Story