By Max Hastings.
The British knew the feeling. One minute there you are, like Brazil’s football team on Tuesday, settling down to start a long campaign. The next minute, bewilderingly, it is all over: Germany is master of the field, … Read the rest
Posts Tagged ‘Britain’
Seeding the net with false info
The British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor … Read the rest
Get ‘diverse’ or else, British govt tells filmmakers
Movie companies have been told they must meet new targets for ethnic minority, gay and female characters on screen to be eligible for future funding from the British Film Institute.
The BFI, Britain’s largest public film fund, announced a “Three … Read the rest
Assassination by drone: US relies on laws from countries without a constitution
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says:
No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ….
So how did the legal memorandum “justifying” assassination of U.S. citizens by drone try to … Read the rest
British MPs too white says David Cameron
David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said there is ‘much more to be done’ to encourage more people from ethnic minority backgrounds to enter Parliament.
The Prime Minister said there is “much more to be done” to encourage more people from … Read the rest
Mass surveillance destroys the economy
Privacy is a prerequisite for a prosperous economy. Four ways that mass surveillance hurts the US economy.
The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada – Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D. – noted last month:
Privacy is Essential to … Prosperity and Well-Being… Read the rest
British police work round the clock to patrol social media
Alex Marshall, head of the College of Policing, said the number of calls relating to social media represented “a real problem for people working on the frontline of policing”.
“Police officers can’t deal with every bit of nonsense or disagreement … Read the rest
A truly awful British BBC presenter
Jimmy Savile sounds like a prison guard from the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War where Afrikaner women and children were subjected to extreme abuse.
Investigators were given “macabre accounts” of disgraced British BBC presenter Jimmy Savile “acting unacceptably” with … Read the rest
Britain could ban Muslim school governers
A set of rules aimed at promoting “British values” in schools could ban conservative Muslims from becoming governors, a religious rights group says. The new regulations follow allegations of a “Trojan Horse” plot to Islamisize schools in the UK.
The … Read the rest
Why I hate South Africa, part 1
by Dan Roodt
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South Africa is a land of great natural beauty. Its unique flora and fauna attract tourists from all over the world. Due to geological accident, we also have buried beneath our soil and rock … Read the rest
Farage hails UKIP anti-EU triumph
Nigel Farage hailed Ukip’s victory in the European elections as the most ‘extraordinary result in British politics for 100 years’.
Support for Ukip has surged by more than 12 per cent, outstripping a more modest boost in votes for Labour, … Read the rest
Cornish recognized as official UK minority
The residents of England’s windswept, wave-lashed southwest are Europe’s newest official minority.
The British government said Thursday Cornish people have been given the same status as Scots, Welsh and Irish — the U.K.’s other Celtic peoples — under EU law … Read the rest
Angry China cancels talks with interfering Britain
British human rights in Iraq
China on Tuesday condemned Britain for interfering in its domestic affairs, in response to a human rights report, a day after the British government said Beijing had called off human rights talks. Britain listed China … Read the rest
Pondo chief’s letter to Russia
Pondo Chief Umqikela
A chief of the Pondo people wrote to Russian Emperor in November 1886. The chief asks Alexander III to protect his people from British occupation. The letter is addressed «To the Czar St Petersburg, Russia, Esihlonyane Pondoland, … Read the rest