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Time to see the light over energy
11:20am Tuesday 9th February 2010
ONE day the lights will go out, but before they do we shall all have to face steeply rising fuel bills. This is because both Conservative and Labour governments of these past 20 years have warned of the coming crisis in energy supply and yet have done precisely nothing to forestall it.
Just lay off the booze – price, that is
10:57am Tuesday 2nd February 2010
I DON’T think I contribute greatly to Britain’s problem with alcohol. I do like a drink, though, and, like anyone else who drinks regularly, I confess I sometimes have a glass too many.
The reality of Muslim extremism
9:44am Tuesday 26th January 2010
THE National Association of Muslim Police (Namp) has criticised the Government’s anti-terrorism strategy – calling it “an affront to British values”.
One year on it’s all talk, talk, talk...
10:44am Tuesday 19th January 2010
AT his inauguration a year ago, President Barack Obama was hailed as a messiah, a great saviour who would come to set America and the wider world at ease with itself again after all the damage done by George W Bush.
Conspiracy over PC will cost lives
11:28am Tuesday 12th January 2010
OUR leaders are not taking rational action in the face of the terrorist threat.
Extremists: action here needed now
12:49pm Tuesday 5th January 2010
FOUR weeks ago I wrote in this column that the war in Afghanistan is a senseless waste of our soldiers’ lives. I added: “In any case, the leaders of al Qaida are not only in the border country shared by Afghanistan and Pakistan: they are in Somalia, Sudan and the Yemen.”
Sobering thought for 2010
10:22am Tuesday 29th December 2009
AS the year 1939 faded and the tumultuous year 1940 loomed in the winter darkness, King George VI read a poem by Minnie Haskins over the radio to the nation.
Partying over the recession
10:33am Tuesday 22nd December 2009
RECESSION – what recession? Here in the City of London they are partying like the last days of the Roman Empire. Perhaps that’s it, one final fling before the lights go out?
Why ban on BNP leaves me bugged
10:17am Tuesday 15th December 2009
WE clergy have been told by our ecclesiastical superiors that we must not join the BNP. Well, I wouldn’t join a thuggish gang like the BNP if they gave you free beer and double points on my Tesco Clubcard.
Afghanistan and a fatal confusion
10:16am Tuesday 8th December 2009
THE more I see and hear of US President Barack Obama, the more he reminds me of one of his predecessors, Jimmy Carter: a disastrous mixture of sentimentality, indecision and ineptitude.
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