According to the Daily Mail, the target was the Capita office. If that is the case, I suggest it would be hard to find the culprits. There are as many possible suspects as there are motives. Capita is involved in the congestion charge, collection of council tax arrears, failed taxpayer-funded IT projects (eg the Criminal Records Bureau), and much, much more.
Bound to be lots of aggrieved folk about.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Ukip is preparing to change its name to the ‘Independence Party’.
I must say, Ukip is becoming more appealing with each passing day. This change of name is not mere window-dressing. It suggests a broadening of focus to encompass wider conservative policies. I wonder if the (nominal) Conservative Party is worried about developments in Ukip. If it is not, it should be.
The police are accusing the Government of leaking operational details of the alleged ‘beheading plot’ in an attempt to divert attention from Tony Blair’s current troubles with the law.
I must say I did wonder, when, for examples, details emerged in the papers about how the police used two muslim soldiers to lure the alleged kidnappers. I wondered what the police were hoping to gain by releasing such sensitive information to the public. Were they hoping to scupper any future trial, or what?
Turns out the police may not have leaked the information after all. Sources close to the investigation are pointing the finger at the Government. Given the latter’s past record on this sort of behaviour, I am inclined to believe the police.
I fully expect a denial from the Government, but that doesn’t count for much these days.
A supply teacher in a London school has been sacked, allegedly for claiming in a religious education lesson that most suicide bombers were muslim. Apparently, this upset the pupils, and that, according to the deputy head teacher, is the important thing.
I think the teacher was wrong, anyway. He should have said that right now, not most, but all suicide bombers are muslim.
In any case, what did he expect at the predominantly muslim school? Gratitude for pointing out the obvious truth?
Tony Blair says he will not plead for his integrity in front of the British people.
Just as well, as he has none whatsoever for which to plead.
Just watched Michael White of the Guardian being interviewed by Sky News. He was doing his best to downplay the significance of the police interviewing Tony Blair for the second time. Surely even a Blair apologist can see that this is unprecedented? For all the talk of the Tories and sleaze ten years ago, not one single policeman ever went to Downing Street to question John Major. In fact, it is ludicrous to imagine John Major being involved in anything questionable while he was Prime Minister. Not so Blair.
No telling Michael White, though. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
