This is literally what Ted Kennedy said at a democrat rally for Senator Obama. This was no coincidence but a reminder as to where Barack Obama’s roots lie. His father was a Muslim Kenyan and he had lived in the most Muslim populace place in the world, Indonesia. He had attended Madrassa and still currently [...]

For the average person making sense of what the papers are saying regarding the state of economy, means taking a degree in Economics. No matter how simplified it seems, trying to figure why interest rates should be lowered/raised to make petrol at the pumps cheaper, seems somewhat convoluted. Even when I worked in the City, [...]

Do you remember back in the “good old days” when it was bad to be gay?  Bad to be an unwed mother?  Bad to have pre-marital sex?  Bad to divorce?  Bad to lie?
I can even recall when the WORD divorce was dirty.  It seems that not only can we now do these things in the [...]

I was meaning to write about the ‘demonisation of British kids’ in light of the recent report by the UN on standards in the UK and reconciling this with an independent report about how a decade of measures to combat youth crime had failed to deliver the required result.
 It would have been a continuation of [...]

When I read in the media about talk of lump sum spending allowance for MPs’ second homes, something just didn’t seem right at all with the current property system. People in society are struggling. No – wait. They are actually suffering trying to get on to the property ladder to have a safe and secure [...]

Okay, so Brown still faces a rough ride with the Lords, but political expediency and naked Machiavellian practices is the form of common order in the UK, so don’t hold your breath.  Having a 42 day pre-detention (internment) charge won’t look that bad when, in a year or so, they start discussing 90 days. We [...]