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Seven primary school pupils in England have tipped the scales at more than 20 stone (280 pounds!), according to official statistics. Among the seven – who were weighed between 2006 and 2012 for the National Child Measurement Programme – was an 11-year-old boy measuring 4ft 4in tall, and weighing just shy of 24 stone. (The …
People and property are safer “than at almost any time since the 1970s”. Last year there were 69 armed robberies of banks, building societies and post offices in England and Wales: in the 1990s there were about 500 a year. Car thefts in New York have dropped from 147,000 in 1990 to fewer than 10,000 …
The French see their country as a wonderful land that everyone wants to come to. It isn’t. According to journalist Felix Marquardt, it’s “a decrepit, overcentralised gerontocracy” that the young people of France should get out of as soon as they get a chance. Why stay in a land that for 30 years has tolerated …
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Deregulation has cost the public dear in a host of countries ever since Thatcher invented it and sold the idea of immutable monopolies to all and sundry. Even the World Bank fell for the stupid idea. It was one of the biggest scams of the 20th Century. Politicians have since stopped talking about breaking up …
“…..,nationalism, that specious patriotism of the morally stunted.” (page 167, “Birds without Wings” by Louis de Bernieres). It is surprising how some people find it difficult to distinguish between patriotism and nationalism. Patriotism is the natural human attachment to country and kin. It should come with a healthy dose of self-criticism and a desire to …
