Child database ‘will ruin family privacy’
Such a system may also hold inaccurate information, tarnishing
families or children unfairly. "Families’ privacy and autonomy is being
shattered as the Government puts them all under surveillance," they say.
"Government policy proposes treating all parents as if they cannot be
trusted to bring up their children."
Source: Telegraph (online), November 22, 2006
UK Doctors Face Jail if They Refuse to Euthanize Patients
In a statement yesterday Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor of
England has warned doctors that they may face prison sentences if they
refuse to starve and dehydrate patients to death. Criminal charges of
assault could be laid against doctors or nurses who refuse to allow
patients to die, even by removal of food and hydration tube.
Source: Life Site, November 21, 2006
Doctors face prison for denying right to die
The Lord Chancellor has warned doctors they risk going on trial for
assault if they refuse to allow patients who have made ‘living wills’ to
die.
Source: This is London, November 17, 2006
Babies ‘designed’ to be free of disease
Two babies have become the first in the world to be born after their
mother underwent a screening process pioneered in Britain to ensure that
they were clear of an inherited disease.
Source: Telegraph (online), November 15, 2006
Church supports baby euthanasia
The Church of England has joined one of Britain’s royal medical
colleges in alling for legal euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn
babies.
Source: Times Online, November 12, 2006
Euthanase disabled babies, say doctors
One of Britain’s leading medical colleges is calling on the health
profession to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled
newborn babies.
Source: The Austrailan – Health (online), November 6, 2006
Revealed: How BA bans men sitting next to children they don’t know
British Airways has been accused of treating all men passengers as
potential sex offenders after it was revealed it has banned children
from sitting next to male strangers – even if their parents are on the
same flight.
Source: Daily Mail (online), November 4, 2006
Council proposes link between cost of parking permits and individual car emissions
The owners of “Chelsea tractors”, people carriers and
top of the range prestige cars face a threefold increase in the cost of
their parking permits under plans unveiled by a Liberal Democrat
council.
The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames is also planning to crack
down on two car households, with a 50 per cent additional levy on the
second vehicle.
Source: Telegraph (online), October 25, 2006
Fury as BA says it would allow Muslim veil but not cross
British Airways has been accused of appalling double standards after
admitting Muslim staff may be allowed to wear veils – just weeks after
it sent a Christian home for wearing a cross.
Check-in worker Nadia Eweida has been on unpaid leave for a month
after the airline banned her from wearing her tiny cross on a necklace
over her uniform.
Source: Daily Mail (online), October 25, 2006
Hospital admits to burning aborted babies in waste incinerator
One of the country’s leading hospitals is throwing aborted babies
into the same incinerator used for rubbish to save only £18.50 each
time, it has emerged.
Daily Mail (online), October 23, 2006
DNA database ‘should include all’
Tony Blair called yesterday for the national DNA database to be expanded to include every citizen.
Source: The Telegraph (online), October 24, 2005
BBC confesses bias on religion, politics
An internal British Broadcasting Corporation memo reveals senior
figures admitted the national news agency was guilty of promoting
left-wing views and anti-Christian sentiment.
Source: WorldNetDaily, October 23, 2006
Mankind to be wiped out by language police
But Glasgow City Council, whose senior figures include Lady Provost
Liz Cameron and leisure director and First Minister’s wife Bridget
McConnell, is clear about the problem of oppressed women in its ranks.
The issue is laid out in "Language Matters: A Guide for Good
Practice", which has been circulated to the council’s staff and elected
officials….
"Don’t assume it is acceptable to address women by endearments such
as ‘dear’, ‘pet’ and ‘love’ when you would not address men in such a
way," the guide instructs. "Don’t refer to women as ‘girls’, for
example, ‘the girls in the office’."
Source: Scotland on Sunday (online), October 22, 2006
Universities urged to spy on Muslims
Lecturers and university staff across Britain are to be asked to spy
on "Asian-looking" and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in
slamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence, the Guardian has
learned.
Source: Guardian (online), October 16, 2006
Airline bans woman from wearing cross
British Airways has banned a Christian woman from wearing a cross on a necklace to work, a British newspaper reports.
Source: WorldNetDaily, October 15, 2006
Council launches ‘shop your neighbour’ dustbin hotline
Homeowners are being asked to spy on their neighbours and report them if they are not recycling, it emerged….
The plan to get residents to report their neighbours was revealed
after Teignbridge District Council distributed thousands of leaflets
asking residents to look out for people who do not recycle correctly.
Source: ThisIsLondon, October 12, 2006
Schoolgirl arrested for refusing to study with non-English pupils
A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing
to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not
speak English.
Source: Daily Mail (online), October 13, 2006
Row as 7-year-olds are taught to act out smoking cannabis
Primary school pupils are being told to pretend they are smoking
joints at a party and dealing acid and ecstasy in controversial new
drugs education classes….
Children as young as nine are required to assume the part of
drug-dealers while seven-year-olds can act out drinking alcohol at a
cousin’s wedding.
Source: The Daily Mail (online), October 6, 2006
Insurance car tracker will be spy for police
Police will be able to tell whether drivers who crash were speeding
by checking the black boxes being fitted to thousands of cars by
Britain’s biggest insurance company.
Source: TimesOnLine, October 5, 2006
And the gays went in two by two . . .
It was supposed to be a joke, but colleagues in a politically correct
town hall failed to see the funny side when a Tory councillor suggested
that nowadays Noah would have been unable to insist on taking only
animals of the opposite sex in his Ark….
“I urge if we are truly going to embrace diversity all members should
have compulsory equality training. I would urge those enlightened
Conservative councillors, and I know there are some, to challenge
Councillor Clutterbuck on his attitudes to minority communities.”
Source: TimesOnLine, October 5, 2005
Schoolgirls forced to strip to underwear in front of boys for PE
Parents staged an angry protest after their young daughters were forced to strip to their underwear in front of boys at school.
The girls, aged ten and 11, were left in tears after being ordered to
change for PE in a mixed classroom under a school policy blamed on
health and safety regulations.
Source: ThisIsLondon, September 30, 2006
Muslim teacher in carol concert tirade is made Ofsted inspector
A hardline Muslim teacher who caused a furore by denouncing pupils
for celebrating Christmas has been made a Government schools inspector.
Source: ThisIsLondon, September 30, 2006
Cemetery to bury all, Christians too, facing Mecca
A new, $4.7 million cemetery in Nottingham is the first public
graveyard in the UK to have all its burial plots aligned with Mecca and
to inter those of all faiths in the Muslim tradition.
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 24, 2006
Big Brother is shouting at you
Big Brother is not only watching you – now he’s barking orders too.
Britain’s first ‘talking’ CCTV cameras have arrived, publicly berating
bad behaviour and shaming offenders into acting more responsibly.
The system allows control room operators who spot any anti-social
acts – from dropping litter to late-night brawls – to send out a verbal
warning: ‘We are watching you’.
Source: The Daily Mail (online), September 16, 2006
Police officers who chase criminals could face sack
Police officers who launch chases over roofs, railway lines and busy
roads could be sacked for putting the health and safety of criminals at
risk, it has emerged.
Source: ThisIsLondon, September 15, 2006
Blair to target the ASBO babies
Tony Blair has unveiled a provocative campaign to crack down on future problem children before they are even born.
He set out plans for massively increased state intervention in the
homes of ‘nuisance’ families to tackle anti-social behaviour.
Source: ThisIsLondon, August 31, 2006
‘Big Brother’ concerns as secret system of cameras is rolled out
A network of secret roadside cameras used to track terror suspects,
drug traffickers and child abductors has been rolled out across
Scotland, police have revealed.
Senior officers have told The Scotsman that the installation of
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras was completed this
month, allowing detectives to monitor the movements of suspects from a
4,000 name watchlist as they travel on major routes across the country.
Source: The Scottsman (online), August 26, 2006
Government may charge for info
The Government is already considering curbing Freedom of Information
(FOI) laws barely a year and a half after they came into force, it was
reported.
A leaked cabinet paper reveals plans to block "the most difficult equests" made by the public to Whitehall departments.
This is London, July 30, 2006
Three-year-olds to be taught about gay relationships
Children as young as three should be taught about same-sex
relationships in a bid to stamp out homophobia in schools, it was
claimed yesterday.
The National Union of Teachers, the country’s largest teaching union,
sparked outrage by demanding that nursery staff help to educate
children about gay families.
The Daily Mail (online), July 21, 2006
Schools told it’s no longer necessary to teach right from wrong
Schools would no longer be required to teach children the difference
between right and wrong under plans to revise the core aims of the
National Curriculum….
The draft also purges references to promoting leadership skills and
deletes the requirement to teach children about Britain’s cultural
heritage.
Source: Times On Line, July 31, 2006
Relatives to be targeted if DNA draws a blank
Criminals who have left forensic traces at serious
crime scenes but cannot be found on the national DNA database are being
targeted in an initiative encouraging police to identify offenders
through their relatives.
Source: The Telegraph (online), June 26, 2006
Councils can grab homes left empty for six months
Homes left empty for six months can be seized by
councils and rented out as social housing under legislation coming into
force next month.
An Empty Dwelling Management Order will allow local
housing authorities to take control of privately-owned homes if they
have been unoccupied and are not likely to be occupied in the "near
future".
Source: The Telegraph (online), June 16, 2006
Spy in the sky’ keeps watch on speeding drivers
Work on setting up the world’s biggest "spy in the sky" [satellite]
network for tracking cars will begin within weeks, with around 10,000
black boxes to be fitted in vehicles in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Source: Telegraph (online), April 3, 2006
Identity cards a ‘present’ to terrorists and criminals, spy heroine say
A national identity card scheme will be a "present" to terrorists,
criminal gangs and foreign spies, one of Britain’s most respected former
intelligence agents has told ministers.
Source: The Scottsman, March 21, 2006
Atheist wins discrimination case
A teacher who lost out on promotion at a Roman Catholic
school because he was an atheist has won his claim for religious
discrimination.
Source: The Herald (online), March 9, 2006
How we move ever closer to becoming a totalitarian state
But in the dusty cradle of Committee A, a monster has been stirring
and will, in due course, take flight to join the other measures in the
government’s attack on parliamentary democracy and the rights of the
people. The ‘reform’ in the title allows ministers to make laws without
the scrutiny of parliament and, in some cases, to delegate that power to
unelected officials. In every word, dot and comma, it bears the imprint
of New Labour’s authoritarian paternity.
Source: Guardian Unlimited, March 15, 2006
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
Source: The United Kingdom Parliament, January 11, 2006
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