Ever heard people say to plan for Christmas, you should begin in the summer? That phenomenon is already happening and raising quite the kerfuffle in the global media. But for the ubiquitous festive stocking of the yuletide shelves that you would think
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Now you know what Mary didn’t know thanks to a Jesus ultrasound
David Cameron has picked a fine time to make his Afghan debut. Convoy torched; helicopter shot down; the two security advisers to President Karzai whom the West most trusts resigned; and 29 Nato and British servicemen killed in nine days.
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They must know our mission is doomed
A Swiss company called Cabestan (which sounds like the imaginary Central Asian republic that London taxi drivers think minicab drivers come from) has, I gather, finally produced the wristwatch the world has been waiting for: the Scuderia Ferrari One.
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Nought to 60 seconds for a mere 250 grand
In the small town of Mogwase, not far from Rustenburg, where England will play their first world Cup match tonight, local schoolchildren are benefiting from newly laid football pitches, which will be one of the legacies of the World Cup 2010. Expect to see a number of uplifting stories of investment and legacy over the next four weeks, most of which will carry the Fifa logo
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It’s a myth that big sporting events boost the economy
In March 2006 a friend gave me her right kidney. I had been searching for a donor for more than a year — my kidneys mysteriously gave out in 2004 — and things were not going well
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Altruism + incentive = more organ donations
This from a story by George Conger, first published in the Church of England newspaper . (Note the material highlighted in red.) “The Archbishop’s Pentecost letter is the public half of a campaign to rein in the Episcopal Church, The Church of England Newspaper has learned, and follows a private letter delivered to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori asking her to consider withdrawing from active participation on the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion. A letter from the Archbishop is believed to have been given to Bishop Jefferts Schori at the April 17 consecration of the Bishop of Connecticut, Dr Ian Douglas.
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Was the Presiding Bishop asked to step down?
This week the UN Security Council sent a strong signal to Iran that the world will not walk away in the face of its refusal to negotiate over its nuclear programme. The new resolution is a statement of resolve and determination that the new British Government welcomes and played a leading role in bringing about. Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the 2009 Iranian presidential elections and the dramatic scenes that followed.
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The clock is ticking. Iran must come to the table
The Government giveth. The Government taketh away. For the past three months I have been in possession of the most useful gift that any British government has ever given me
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I love my ID card. Can they really be taking it away?
Should the Government have a ten-year plan for every child growing up in England? To paraphrase the new Chancellor, setting out his expenditure tests this week: does government really need to do this
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How Labour blew the children’s inheritance
Here we are in 2010, and as we watch the Catholic Church implode, let us spare a thought for those sheeple placing their shekels in the collection plates each week knowing that the group they have financially supported has covered up child rape and other forms of paedophilic abuse. The Pope will visit London in the Autumn and he expects to be greeted by a loud group of protestors who have enough of this charade, this parade of nonsense.
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Anti-Catholic? Moi?