Month: November 2003
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Sleeping Dogs of Class System Allowed To Sleep
Despite causing derision and bafflement Britain’s system of awarding honours is not to be changed, according to a government announcement. This is despite an official review finding that the highly stratified system of state awards is failing in it’s supposed objective of “making the country feel good about itself”. The government has decided that change…
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BBC Info Freedom Pretence
The BBC state media giant is setting up a freedom of information team. According to press adverts the team’s purpose is to help the Corporation comply with the Freedom of Information Act. It is illegal in Britain to receive terrestrial, satellite, cable or Internet TV broadcasts without permission from the BBC. The Freedom of Information…
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Another legislator-for-life hits the skids
According to a report in the Financial Times “questions over multi-million dollar payments to Lord Black and other Hollinger (newspaper) executives – totalling just under $300m – are likely to signal the end of the maverick publisher’s attempts to become one of the world’s most influential newspaper proprietors.” Former Canadian Conrad Black is a Lord…
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Equality Head Defends Hereditary Ruler
In one of the more telling incidents in the brouhaha surrounding the suppression of news reports concerning Charles Windsor and his former chief of staff, Trevor Phillips, chairperson of the Commission for Racial Equality, has appeared on Channel Four’s 7 o’clock news to defend the futile attempts to stop publication. Labour Party member Mr. Phillips,…
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Judge-Legislator Majority Opposes Democratic Reform
Six out of twelve of the so-called Law Lords have opposed the separation of Britain’s supreme court of appeal from the legislature. In their response to government proposals for an independent supreme court the six unelected legislators complain that they will not be able to advise other legislators if they do not sit in the…