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Photo Essay: Westminster School Russian & Indian War Memorial
An extraordinary monument to Westminster School Alumni who died for King and Country
- Photo Essay: Protesting at Westminster
Some photographs of a protest which is running at the Parliament Square in London
- Abusing the British Welfare State
When Diarmuid asks the wife what she feels about sponging off the state, she points to her husband and goes “it is his fault! He
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Shaikh Dr Tahir ul-Qadri Issues Anti-Terrorism Fatwa Without Teeth
Following the global anti-terrorism Fatwa launched in London it's time the public (including Muslims) question the motives of these "advisors".
- The Robin Hood Tax - A Crock of Brown Organic Matter
The Robin Hood Tax needs to be thought out more. Perhaps withdrawn.
- Hindu Nationalism in UK and the VHP
Looking for hindutva under every bed can lead to concussed occipital injuries.
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Photo-Essay: HMS Belfast: The Ship That Came in From the Cold
A photo essay on HMS Belfast, a world war II cruiser currently moored on the Thames in London
- The 1818 Battle of Koregaon - The Beginning of a Casteist War?
Was the battle of Koregaon really the first shot of the Hindu Caste War?
- Photo Essay: Baker Street Underground Station
A photo essay on Barker Street, perhaps one of the oldest underground railway stations in the world.
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Photo Essay: Marble Arch, London
A photo essay on the Marble Arch monument in London
- The Shadow of the Great Game: Partition of India & British Strategic Interests
Lacking the effervescence of bubbly champagne his book can be best described as a vapid rethreading of other people's books.
- British Government in Bind Over Release of al Megrahi
Political opponents to Prime Minister Gordon Brown must be smelling blood, seeing a way to tar him with the feather of 'terrorists-for-trade'/
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Should the Nepalese Government honour Joanna Lumley?
It is ridiculous to expect the Nepalese government to honour Lumley, though she has done the Gurkhas a great service
- The British National Party - Not British, National, Certainly Not a Party
Why the British National Party, a fascist racist party is making gains and what to do about it?
- Gurkhas Seek Justice in UK, They Get The Law Instead
The Gurkhas are brave and loyal, but should that give them the right to settle down in the UK?
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What Goes for the Terrorist Goose Doesn't Go For the Terrorist Gander
At Uncle Sam's place, why do supporters of some terrorist groups get away scot free?
- British Visas for Foreign Students - The Hidden Politics
Most international students in the UK fail to find employment commensurate with their qualifications, experience and abilities when they graduate.
- Northern Ireland : Peace Will Prevail
Nothing can be achieved through violence and nothing can not be achieved through peaceful negotiations.
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Disabled Children Wait up to Two Years for Wheelchairs
It is a shame when a supposedly universal healthcare system lets down disabled children who are desperate for help
- Protests Against the British Day of Science - UK War Crimes?
Science and technology do not belong to just one country, and saying there is Zionist science is like saying there is Christian Gravity.
- Fake Charities and Real Charities
There are fake charities out there which steal twice, once from your pocket involuntarily and once from other deserving causes
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Sri Lanka-LTTE War: The Shifting Semantics of a Political Solution
More analysts are now making note that an Independant Tamil Eelam is now a political solution where as United Sri Lanka has become a military
- Book Review: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Goldberg argues that liberals are a lot more fascist than conservatives.
- Iraq - Shoe-ing Away The Question
What if it's true? is a question, better avoided than asked.
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Conversions, Sham Marriages and Organ Donations
Various distasteful matters can be perfectly legal!
- The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain
The Plan is based on the assumption that the UK is in a bad shape.
- The Voice of America & Other Voices
The Voice of America and many of the other voices have been muted because their political objectives have been met.
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Can Only Whites be Racist?
Why is it that racism is usually only associated with Whites and not with Browns, Blacks and Greys and Yellows and Greens?
- Public Services and the Public Sector
just because it is a public service does not mean it has to be provided by the public sector.
- The Benefits of Joblessness
As long as there are economic benefits to not working, unemployment will not decrease
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Book Review : Speaking of Empire and Resistance by Tariq Ali
No matter what view point we hold- this book will make the reader sit up and take note.Shantanu Dutta
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- Why is Argentina Boosting Air Force Spending?
Why is Argentina increasing defence spending right now in the middle of an economic crisis?
- The British Government and Corrupt Practices
The corrupt saga of British Aerospace and the shameful behaviour of the British government
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Student Suspended For University Criticism on YouTube
Is this going to be related to a freedom of speech case or a defamation case?
- Paradigm-Changing Events and Legal Systems
How the codified British legal system was born out of prosecutions of the Thugs in India
- Muhammad Abduh - A Reformer Who Died Too Soon
When you look around the Muslim world today, his words and his ideals are still as valid as they were then.
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Kosovo's Independence - The Emperor is Wearing Albanian Clothes
If the ethnic Albanian Kosovars now oppress the ethnic Serbs as it will happen, will NATO bomb the ethnic Albanians?
- I Want to Go to Bologna, Italy as a Pastafarian
I want a subsidy to visit Bologna in Italy, which is where the great flying spaghetti monster lives and I want to go worship him.
- Employment Programmes - Solutions in Search of Problems
They assumed that anybody who is not white has a problem in getting a job.
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Oskar Spate and the Partition of India
Oskar Spate served on the Punjab Boundary Commission and there are quite a lot of interesting points in his paper.
- Book Review: Exodus
Exodus is without question a historical novel told from the obvious Jewish perspective.Sandeep
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- UK Taxmen Lose Private Records: What's It Going To Cost?
What a bunch of imbeciles! Who are these idiots who run the government?
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Minorities and Poverty
Public policy should not be driven by blunt instruments such as skin colour.
- Bobby Jindal, First Indian-American Governor in United States
Bobby Jindal, born of Punjabi immigrants, has become governor-elect of Louisiana.
- Book Review: Never Surrender by Michael Dobbs
Reliving the tense days of 1940s with Churchill - his whims and doubts and with defeatist ministers and generals around
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The Ugly Briton
The British should "commemorate" their historic crimes against Humanity in the UK itself and not here.
- War of Independence, the Great Mutiny, and The Last Mughal
The final disappointment was that it was a savage little war/mutiny and nobody comes out of it with any good reputation.
- Doing Business Improves In Most Countries
There is nothing like getting entrepreneurs to kick off work.



























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