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Government 'tick box' approach to ethnicity

http://www.telegraph....IPPR-report-says.html Do you think you are discriminated against, when asked to tick the boxes? If you think you are not, why isn't there never a box for, White English?...

rov1200

Printing the whole page

On some internet pages you can only print out one particular section. This may be because the HTML is coded with frames. How do print the whole?

anotheoldgit

Gagging order on David Kelly records could be lifted.

http://www.guardian.c...ing-order-david-kelly Lord Hutton said that he " requested that the post-mortem report should not be disclosed for 70 years as I was concerned that the publication of that...

R1Geezer

Union Flag........

http://tinyurl.com/y8hyqeu - should the Aussies remove it?...

ahmskunnirt

Northern Ireland? Set It Adrift! We Don't Need It!

Here we are, yet again, with PM Gordon Brown and Taoiseach Brian Cowen in Belfast knocking heads together in a desperate attempt to get "warring factions" to try to live in peace with one...

birdie1971

More Lies About Man-Made Global Warming

Coming hot on the heels of the 'Climategate' scandal a few weeks ago, we now find out that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has also been telling massive porkies too......

ahmskunnirt

Tory Self-Defence Proposals: Right Or Wrong?

The Tories are, obviously in light of recently well documented cases, proposing that householders be empowered to use "disproportionate" force against intruders which presumably means that a...

anotheoldgit

http://www.telegraph....might-kill-again.html Well doesn't this story just beggar belief? Here is a convicted criminal, and a Iraqi citizen to boot, who on his release from a secure hospital cannot be...

anotheoldgit

Women suicide bombers

http://www.dailymail....bers-target-West.html Since it would seem that '72 Virgins' would be of little use to these women suicide bombers, what might their incentive be?...

rov1200

Water Dowsers

Is there a scientific explanation why water dowsers appear to work (for most people anyway)?

rov1200

Lifespan of a virus

On the TV yesterday viruses were seem swimming in a small pool of water trapped in a block of ice. They had been there for more than 1 million years. Do they live indefinately?

R1Geezer

Should surgery for fatties be paid for by he NHS?

At the moment, in theory at least if BMI is > 40 then they should, but they aren't apparently. Anyway is this something that the NHS should pay for at all: http://preview.tinyurl.com/yjmtd64 I tend...

anotheoldgit

Refugees to go to Guantánamo Bay

http://www.timesonlin...as/article6997693.ece /// The US, anxious to prevent a water-borne exodus of refugees from Haiti to Florida, has begun preparing a 1,000-bed tented camp at the...

rov1200

GM foods can cause liver damage

http://www.dailymail....er-kidney-damage.html Was the British government right in refusing the sale of GM foods in the UK?...

anotheoldgit

A wise move or just expensive spin?

http://www.independen...k-banned-1873748.html Just because one recent terrorist came from Yemen, should the government ban direct flights from Yemen to Britain? Taking this action should we now also...

anotheoldgit

What is the real situation in Haiti?

http://www.independen...-savages-1874218.html This makes very interesting reading. But is it just one's man's slant of what the situation in Haiti is like?. If what he says is true, then the media...

anotheoldgit

Crackdown on binge drinking

http://www.guardian.c...n-binge-drinking-code The Government will introduce a series of measures to crack down on 'Binge Drinking', these will include: • A ban on "irresponsible"...