The Corner Blog Archives: Great Britain
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6 February 2007
Video: US Airforce bombing British convoy on 2003 in Iraq
If you need to find one good thing about tabloid magazines is that they publish anything to get viewers and publicity. The Sun just published “a video that does not exist” on their website about the bombing of English convoy by US Airforce on 2003 which lead to a kill of a British soldier.
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4 December 2006
Britain renewing it’s nuclear warheads
Great Britain announced today with the mouth of Tony Blair that they will continue the upkeep of their nuclear arsenal. Blair announced that they will replace the obsolete strategic warheads in nuclear subs with new ones.
“We just cannot be sure that our brave country wouldn’t be threatened with nuclear weapons in the next decades”, Blair […]
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23 August 2006
Should we burn some crosses now?
This is an absolutely appalling news story:
British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed. The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.
Passengers told […]
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11 August 2006
Lessons for Bush
Ok, so we’re all pretty pissed off about the fact that we can now no longer carry laptops and so on onto our flights. Our eminent Rainer has already covered that. And a lot of people seem to think that there was never any plot at all, that this was a bluff, a fake in […]
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10 August 2006
Security measures at Heathrow just getting stricter
In addition to the security measures already taken, the Heathrow officials have also banned jackets, shirts, sweaters, overcoats, etc, but especially cardigans. The only exception to the rule is that if the person is not wearing anything under the shirt (such as a tank top, sleeveless t-shirt, etc) he may wear one layer of clothing.
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10 August 2006
UK airports’ new “security” measures
I don’t know how many of you reads all of your mails, but I received and read an email today of the new “immediately effective” measures on UK airports.
“Further to today’s national security alert at UK airports, the Department for Transport (DoT) has issued additional security measures. With immediate effect, the following arrangements apply to […]
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14 July 2006
Western scientists help China stem information flow
This is a disturbing news story. Apparently, UK computer scientists (of Cambridge University) have not only found a way through the Chinese state firewall, but also found a way of launching denial-of-service attacks on Chinese government IPs (sic!). Now that might seem quite uninteresting (though probably galling for the Chinese), but have a look at […]
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15 June 2006
Is that really the best you’ve got?
I don’t understand what’s wrong with the English. Or more specifically, the small part of the English which are still the by far worst, most loutish and yobbish guests anywhere in Europe. They’re going to Germany - supposedly to support that under-achieving football team of theirs - with fake Nazi helmets, singing songs about the […]
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12 May 2006
Religious extremists against political debate of euthanasia
Britain is debating today in the House of Lords of the right for euthanasia. Not surpricingly the religious side, anglican and catholic churches, have formed an alliance not just against the right to end one’s life but even the debate. Something which I think is preposterous. The Guardians columnist Polly Toynbee suspected that the debate […]