Few people, beyond his wife and gangster son Marko, will rue the passing of Slobodan Milosevic, found dead in his cell in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The former Yugoslav president, and architect of the civil wars that tore the fragile Balkan union apart, was on trial for his alleged crimes against humanity. The [...]
Milosevic and Saddam: lessons we have unlearned
French going to teach us to be Europeans
Those habitual anti-progressives and occasional rioters, the French, have announced a proposal to create European Lessons in secondary schools across the 25-state union. In a sardonic nod to the democratic process, several of the ideas are ‘are recycled from the constitution’s ruins.’ Remind me, who was it that first rejected the French authored [...]
The David Irving trial should collapse…UPDATED
David Irving is a rotter, and a racist, but his current trial in Vienna is a travesty of justice.
Austrian law forbids holocaust denial and Irving faces up to ten-years. Today he pleaded guilty to the charges, claiming that it was pointless to contest the charge as he was clearly in violation of the laws, [...]
£6m to behead cartoonist – better odds than the lottery?
If more evidence were needed that the world is going nuts in the wake of the Mohammed cartoons, check out this story out courtesy of The Sunday Times: -
A MINISTER in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has offered a £6m reward to anyone who beheads one of the Danish cartoonists who outraged Muslims by [...]
The irregular quote of the day
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” – 19th-century Danish Christian philosopher Soren Kierkegaard
Reflections on the Mohammed Cartoons
The current cartoon-induced tempest that is fracturing – already fragile – relations between the West and the Islamic world, has given me much to ponder. My initial outrage was at some sections of the quasi-Christian right, many of whom have hijacked the Church as a surrogate for a supposed British identity, who claimed this [...]
