This Britain

From today’s Telegraph:

Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency. The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care. This could include a child of as young as three who says ‘yuk’ in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food...Nurseries are encouraged to report as many incidents as possible to their local council.

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The Jews of Europe are.. still the Jews

On a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary tonight the Labour MP Shahid Malik apparently says: 

Many British Muslims feel like the Jews of Europe...Shahid Malik, who was appointed as a minister in the Department for International Development (Dfid) by Gordon Brown last summer, said it has become legitimate to target Muslims in the media and society at large in a way that would be unacceptable for any other minority.

Mr Malik made clear that he was not equating the situation with the Holocaust but warned that many British Muslims now felt like ‘aliens in their own country’. He said he himself had been the target of a string of racist incidents, including the firebombing of his family car and an attempt to run him down at a petrol station.

‘I think most people would agree that if you

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Change you can, er, believe in

Barack Obama’s voting record in the Senate and the positions he struck when battling Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination placed him as arguably the most left-wing presidential candidate in living memory. Now he is running for the presidency itself, and aware that the white working class in particular view him with intense suspicion, he is shamelessly tacking to the centre, ruthlessly throwing overboard hitherto... ahem, deeply principled stands. So extensive are these flip-flops that Charles Krauthammer has written not one but two articles listing them.

Here's a cut-out-and-keep guide to the same old exciting new politics of triangulation that will take us in to the brave new dawn of a freshly principled era.

Old leftie Obama:

*No flag pin as ‘not truly patriotic’
*For ban on handguns
*No support for...

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What part of theocracy does this man not understand?

After the Archbishop of Canterbury, now England’s most senior judge, the Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips, has given a green light to the growth of sharia law in Britain in family matters and the arbitration of disputes. It’s not really a surprise that Lord Phillips thinks like this since he actually chaired the meeting where the Archbishop, Dr Rowan Williams, had his sharia moment. Dr Williams, said Lord Phillips, had been misquoted. Not so. It is Lord Phillips who does not appear to understand the significance of what Dr Williams was saying because, as Lord Phillips demonstrated in his own lecture last night at the London Muslim Centre, he is clearly just as ignorant and confused about Islam, sharia and the accepted relationship between religious minorities and the state.

Admitting that he knew little about sharia law, Lord...

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Taking the airbrush to evil

Amazing sequel over at Harry’s Place to its report -- which I commented upon here -- of remarks made by Mohammad Sawalha, President of the British Muslim Initiative, speaking to Al Jazeera in Arabic about his demonstration against last Sunday’s celebration of the foundation of the State of Israel. Dave M on Harry’s Place translated his comments in a speech on al Jazeera thus:

‘We, the Arab and Islamic community, gather here today to express our resentment at the celebrations by the Jewish community and the evil/noxious Jew in Britain’.

[والوبيل اليهودي في بريطانيا]

Translation by DaveM

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Murder and Boon, this wasn't

There is still considerable uncertainty over the appalling bulldozer attack in Jerusalem yesterday that left three dead and some 60 people injured. There are conflicting accounts of who finally shot dead the attacker, an Arab from east Jerusalem. Amid claims that the police were slow to act, the Jerusalem Post reports:

A preliminary evaluation held by Jerusalem police on Wednesday found that three police officers had attempted to stop the driver before he was eventually shot dead by Special Patrol Unit officer Eli Mizrahi, who was dispatched to the scene on a motorbike. But a video of the final moments of the attack shows a soldier in civilian clothing shooting Dwayat from close range with a handgun while standing outside the cabin. Only then is Mizrahi seen firing a number of rounds into the slumped body of the

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