THE POLICE ARE ANGRY Thursday, Dec 13 2007

British police are enraged. After the Home Secretary decided to back-date an already pitiful, but agreed, pay rise, they have called for her resignation after expressing no confidence in their boss.
Further, they have decided to ballot their members concerning the right to strike. Such a thing is unheard of in the British police, who are at present legally refrained from strike action. Believe me, this mood is serious indeed.
It is serious because the police are supposed to be above all that. But in recent years an increasingly politicized police have been doing, and saying, a lot of things it is not their job to do in a free country.
Is this another sign of a growing police state, with a politicized police force? Sadly – and dangerously - it is. But I do not blame the police. Rather, I blame the political commissars NuLabour have infiltrated into this once marvelous and proud institution.
Which also explains the action today. Rats DO tend to turn.

© Anthony North, December 2007

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CHANGE THE ANGLICAN CHURCH Monday, Dec 10 2007

John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, has cut up his dog collar and is refusing to wear it again until Mugabe is no longer president of Zimbabwe. What a wonderful Archbishop he is, but what’s he doing in the Church of England?
The Church seems to be in decline in England, principally because it is at odds with modern society and the wider Anglican Church, with 70 million worldwide. And Church hierarchy seems more concerned with this 70 million.
As, indeed, they should. But not at the expense of England’s traditional Church. Now, I’m not a practicing Christian, but let me suggest a new way that could allow the best of both worlds for this beleaguered Church.
With two Archbishops, I suggest the national Church be headed, not by Canterbury as today, but by York – which would leave the Archbishop of Canterbury to run the worldwide Anglican Church. Fancy a new job, John?

© Anthony North, December 2007

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DEFINING EDUCATION Monday, Nov 19 2007

David Cameron is going for the popular vote by saying all six year olds in the UK should be able to read. This is a PR stunt of callous proportions, for the simple fact is no education system ever has, or ever could, achieve this.
Unfortunately, there is a proportion of society that just does not do well with education. Throughout most of history, society has catered for this sizeable chunk of any society through jobs that do not require significant education.

Now these people are being failed.

With a consistent policy from all parties of making education a pre-requisite for employment, this element of society is falling by the wayside, a neglected class that doesn’t seem to fit in the modern world.
Further to this, such educational requirements ignore another important element of education and society. It is a simple reality that some people are better suited to education than others.

On average, some 10% of a population fit into this top category …

… and in the past they formed the professional middleclass. Such a concept is now shunned, and in typical social engineering, education no longer allows these people to excel.
The upshot of all this is that education and politics is presently failing society at the top and bottom levels in educational terms. Typically left liberal in persuasion, the end result will no doubt be an equal society. But it will be equal only in its failures.

© Anthony North, November 2007

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EVERYTHING UP, BUT SOME THINGS DOWN Thursday, Nov 15 2007

Situation report on our marvelous global economy – particularly as it applies to Britain.
Petrol prices up. Food costs rising. Home heating bills going crazy. Well, it had to happen, didn’t it? After all, you didn’t really believe the lie about cheap food and fuel forever?
But you did believe it for long enough. Long enough for supermarkets to get their monopoly. Long enough for previously nationalized industries to go private to keep the fat bellies of the super rich.

And of course, wages rose in kind …

… so we all became affluent, and were able to buy our luxurious houses and take out our fat private pensions.
Except those pensions are not as fat as they were supposed to be. And those houses went up, up, up in price and turned you into a wage serf.

But never mind.

The pension and mortgage funds had your money just long enough to make everyone believe the con that new super capitalism was thriving, even though it was bolstered by the inflated mortgage and pension you were buying.
So you’ve got nothing but yourself to blame now that petrol is going up, food is going up, and heating bills are going up ….
Oh … and as house prices are about to come down.
Now that will put us in a whole new negative equity …

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DEATH OF THE BIMBO Monday, Nov 12 2007

The Bimbo – that brainless but usually beautiful young woman – is dead. According to a study by the universities of Pittsburgh and California, she never was a bimbo, but a highly intelligent woman.
Surveying 16,000 women and girls, the whole thing revolves around the hour-glass figure. The curves on a woman’s body are directly related to the degree of intelligence. Hence, the curvy hour-glass shape is a direct sign of a healthy brain.

This does, of course, pass on to their children.

And evolutionists would most likely argue this is another classic sign of shape equaling genetic desirability. So how could intelligence be other than beautiful?
We can, of course, deny the relationship between curves and intelligence having anything to do with evolution, and I admit to being skeptical of the automatic assumption that they are related.

Rather, culture could play an equally important part.

It is a sad fact of society that beautiful, curvy women get far more attention by men, and quickly learn how to use this advantage over others. And I hope women will forgive me when I say, the best way to manipulate a man to get what they want is to play sexy, or stupid.
I never believed they were really Bimbos in the first place.

© Anthony North, November 2007

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CLIMATE CHANGE MEDIA Monday, Oct 15 2007

The decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore is worrying. Awarded jointly to him and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it places global warming at the forefront of global security.
This may indeed be the case in the near future, but not yet. And my worry is that, the science of the problem is getting lost in the hype. This is clearly seen in Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth. With an accurate message, it did, however, contain errors.
The science of man-made involvement in climate change is not proved, but highly likely. This is always the case with science. But if we begin nudging towards hype and milking the consensus, those who disagree with man-made climate change will be handed an invaluable weapon.
I think it is time to return to commonsense in this issue, and forget the hype.

© Anthony North, October 2007

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MEN ARE BRIGHTER? Thursday, Sep 27 2007

A study of 2,500 brothers and sisters by Edinburgh University has positively proved that men are brighter than women. Unfortunately, it also appears they are also stupider. Oh dear, it had to be so, I suppose.
It works like this: there was a disproportionately larger proportion of males in the top 2%. And there was also a disproportionately large proportion of males in bottom 2%. But of course, there is hope that females can become brighter and thicker.

A culture thing

Researchers blame the results not on the hard-wiring of the brain, but cultural expectations of what males and females can achieve. This makes sense. For most of history, the greatest expectations were with men, whilst women were expected to look after the home.
This is now changing, with women’s expectations increasing. However, there is one point of interest that researchers may not have picked up. This discrepancy has been statistically measured in the female’s mind.
Could one of the holdbacks to female success be down to their pessimistic attitude?
If so, then it could be their own lack of expectations, rather than a continuing ‘man’ culture, that is holding them back.

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NAY TO DNA Thursday, Sep 20 2007

At last a bit of common sense. The Nuffield Council on bioethics has called the idea of a National DNA Database unjustified. This follows a judge who suggested, recently, that the whole UK population should be on the database.
At the moment there are some 4 million people on the database, who have committed a crime, or been suspected thereof. The latter should have been immediately removed once innocence was confirmed.
Do we live in a free country or not? If we do, then our only infringements to freedom are to pay our taxes, live by a fair common law, and defend the country if required. As for anything else, we have the right to tell government to get lost.
Well I’m saying it now.
Keep out of our lives!

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POLICE UNDER SIEGE Wednesday, Sep 12 2007

The Chief Inspector of Constabulary has advised that the British police are bogged down with red tape, and failing to use their judgement properly, mainly due to fear of missing something.
The deduction is quite correct, but the reason is bunkum. The mass of red tape placed on the police today is specifically designed to uphold the ‘system’ above personal judgement.

Systemisation of commonsense

Thus, it becomes increasingly impossible for a policeman to use his judgement. And the initial reason for this is that commonsense – something that used to be used at a personal level – has now been taken over by the system.
But of course, commonsense cannot correctly be dealt with by a system because it is a matter of personal judgement to a particular situation. The police, it seems, have been trapped in a vicious circle.

The real reason

But this is only part of the problem. For instance, why has ‘commonsense’ become part of the system rather than the person? Could it be because commonsense does not always fall in line with the political correctness that has taken over the police?
The reality of any society is that there are many views on many subjects, but once a ‘culture’ is imposed that denies people the right to use their discretion in such matters, the result is the collapse of the ‘authority’ that used to police it.

© Anthony North, September, 2007

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THE CHURCH STRIKES BACK Monday, Sep 10 2007

The Church of England is at last beginning a fight back against the Single Equality Bill, which deprives the Church the right to speak out against homosexuality and could force Church charities to remove blessings and the crucifix.
In a document speaking about suppression of freedom and an ‘enforced secularism’, it is, however, far too late for an organization that allowed itself to be brow-beaten into silence when its members needed it most.
A free and thriving society requires all forms of lifestyle, and also the right to question each and every one of them, without fear and without recrimination. And the fact that I now feel compelled to say I am NOT homophobic is a terrible indictment on a country that used to believe in this concept.

© Anthony North, September 2007

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