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Gun retailers across the US have reported a surge in sales in the wake of Barack Obama’s re-election, prompted by fears that the president will use his second term to tighten up gun controls. During his campaign, Obama suggested he might re-introduce the Clinton administration’s ten-year restriction on the sale of semi-automatic weapons, which expired …
Leaving aside for the moment the British national paranoia about sex crimes (unequalled anywhere else ), the problem with the BBC is that it has grown too sprawling, is into a mind-blowing assortment of projects and services and has a vast, top-heavy bureaucracy with too many “managers”. All this is paid for by a virtual …
The cruise-liner industry has launched a PR offensive in Italy to combat mounting public anger at the growing number of giant cruise ships visiting Venice. Some 655 liners docked in the Venice lagoon last year, up from 200 just 15 years ago. They brought in two million extra tourists (one-tenth of the total), and last …
At last people are beginning to say it, words to the effect that soldiers are heroes, led by donkeys. Ten years of war in Afghanistan, and we still cannot beat a bunch of medievalists armed with the modern equivalent of muskets! How long has it been since the British beat a Communist armed subversion in …
Cyber bullying At the age of 12, Amanda Todd, a Canadian, was persuaded to expose herself topless on a webcam to a suspected paedophile she’d met online; he then sent the images to her friends and teachers. That led to her being bullied at school, so she moved school – but the man continued to …
