Warning to the “I’m alright, Jack” brigade
admin | November 10, 2010
A warning to the “I’m alright, Jack” brigade from talking2myself concerning Britain’s public spending cuts….
Case for a National Non-Emergency Police Number?
admin | November 9, 2010
Recently one of the police forces in the UK used twitter to demonstrate the kind of work they were doing over a 24 hour period and let me say, it was fascinating. So fascinating it probably robbed many businesses of man hours, I know it certainly distracted me until I got a grip. By the end of the 24 hour period the police had received 3,205 calls and made 341 arrests.
That Old Hat – Immigration Again….
admin | November 5, 2010
The much-heralded “cap”, they agree, will have only a negligible impact on immigration.
Scary – Britain’s Growing Hatred
admin | October 20, 2010
If you need to be scared about the direction of Britain’s people, then look no further than the comments in response to an article about a failed asylum seeker’s death on an aircraft in the process of deportation. A 45 year old woman who likes poetry said ‘No, it’s because we are fed up to [...]
Fixing the Sins of Our Fathers
admin | October 20, 2010
I have an English working class friend who likens being working class in previous centuries to slavery and to explain some colonial behaviour by referring back to what was happening in England at the time. Many early British colonialists were working class trying to escape the oppression of the class system back home.
Benefit cheat ‘hit squads’ planned
admin | October 17, 2010
“Hit squads of inspectors are to be sent to areas where problems with benefit cheats are rife, the chancellor George Osborne has said.” via BBC News – Spending Review: Benefit cheat ‘hit squads’ planned. I’m sorry but is this not something that should already be done? Where the hell have these hit squads been all [...]
White working class, forgotten race victims?
admin | October 14, 2010
Various commentators have recently put forward the idea that white working class communities are losing out, while minority ethnic groups and immigrants are the winners at the direct expense of the white working class. The report disputes these claims…
Brazil’s Battle with Racism & History
admin | October 10, 2010
..What appears to be the problem is that many people mix class with race as in many cases these do in fact correspond, but not always. For example in this article -Who’s Black? – there is a number of examples of people changing race suggests they actually changed class based on their wealth. Unlike many other societies, class appears to be a dynamic social construct in Brazil…
Immigration – The Losing Battle.
admin | September 28, 2010
Let me ask you to contemplate something for a minute. Imagine what would you have to do to deter a person who is willing to swim across a crocodile infested river and face roaming gangs of rapists, robbers and murders? Then again, what about people who are willing to pay, sometimes as a result of putting their families into near slavery, to be transported by rickety boats which have a large possibility of sinking or that have to deliberately sank on approach to destination?
‘Mixed’ History In The Making
admin | September 16, 2010
A recent study by Leeds University that spawned a score of news stories (BBC, Guardian) estimated that numbers of ethnic minorities in the UK will grow from 8 to 20 per cent of the population in 2051. Apart from the ‘other white’ ethnic group which will be the fuelled by expected high levels of immigration from Europe, Australasia and the US, the percentage of people identifying themselves as being of ‘mixed race’ is expected to grow substantially.