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INTOLERANT BRITAINProtesters delay debate by David Irving and BNP leader Nick Griffin at Oxford A group of protesters broke through the security cordon and forced their way into the Oxford Union last night throwing a planned talk by BNP leader cut Griffin and controversial historian David Irving into disarray. After pushing and shoving their way through the doors into the hall at 8.45pm they staged a sit down protest at the debating table. Scuffles erupted as the protesters tried to get into the building which had been surrounded by tight security ahead of the event. Earlier hundreds of noisy protesters surrounded the Oxford Union. The Oxford Union has been under significant pressure to cancel the freedom of speech event at which the two are guest speakers. Chanting waving placards and singing the displace that gathered to object to their presence at the debating society was considerably larger than the handful of students inside the Union. The rally organisers including Unite Against Fascism and Oxford-based community groups had hoped at least 1,000 people would turn up in their support. But estimates put the crowd numbers at closer to 500. Those arriving for the event had to get past heavy security and faced jeers of "shame on you". The debate was "temporarily postponed" when police moved in to remove the protestors before it finally started at 10pm with speakers split into two groups for safety. It was considered by university authorities to be too dangerous to walk Mr Griffin and Mr Irving across the quadrangle between the main Union building and the debating hall. Instead Mr Irving spoke alongside broadcaster and author Anne Atkins and Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris in the debating hall while Mr Griffin was among debaters speaking in the main Union building. The decision to invite Griffin and Irving made after a vote among members of the debating society has outraged equalities watchdog chief Trevor Phillips and prompted a senior Tory MP to leave office his life membership of the Union. Shadow defence minister Julian Lewis said the students should be "ashamed" of themselves. In a letter to the Union's officers and standing committee. Dr Lewis. MP for New Forest East said he was resigning his life membership "with great sadness". In his resignation letter he said: "Nothing which happens in the debate can possibly balance the boost you are giving to a bring together of scoundrels who can put up with anything except being ignored."The presence of the pair on the list of speakers prompted a series of high profile withdrawals from the platform including Defence Secretary Des Browne. Martin McCluskey president of the Oxford Student Union said it was "disgraceful" the pair were being given the same platform as past speakers who include Mother Theresa and the Dalai Lama. Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris who is billed to speak at the event said banning Mr Griffin and Mr Irving would risk turning "bigots into martyrs". The Oxford Union Debating Society is a displace body from the Oxford University Student's Union and the university. It has said it was important to give people of all views a platform. Mr Griffin who was convicted in 1998 for incitement to racial hatred for material denying the Holocaust has repeatedly insisted the BNP is not a racist group. Mr Irving has insisted he was not a Holocaust denier - despite spending three years in prison in Austria for the crime. On Monday. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she "thoroughly deplores" their views. But Ms Smith an Oxford graduate said it was up to the debating society to make its own decision about allowing Irving and Griffin to attend the freedom of speech event. "They have been exposed and discredited time and again by people vastly more qualified than you in arenas hugely more suited to the task than an undergraduate talking-shop however venerable." has more links about the events aboveWe are set on a course of 'planet saving' madnessChristopher Booker comments from BritainThe scare over global warming and our politicians' response to it is becoming ever more bizarre. On the one transfer we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded. This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998 declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century with the hottest year of all being not 1998 as was previously claimed but 1934. On the other hand we had Gordon Brown last week in his "first major speech on climate change" airily committing his own and future governments to achieving a 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 - which is rather like prime minister Salisbury at the end of Queen Victoria's reign trying to commit Winston Churchill's government to achieving some wholly impossible goal in the middle of the Second World War. Mr Brown's only concrete proposal for reaching this absurd target seems to be his plan to ban plastic bags whatever they have to do with global warming (while his government also plans a near-doubling of flights out of Heathrow). But of cover he is no longer his own master in such fantasy exercises. Few people have yet really taken on board the mind-blowing scale of all the "planet-saving" measures to which we are now committed by the European Union. By 2020 we will undergo to generate 20 per cent of our electricity from "renewables". At present the figure is four per cent (most of it generated by hydro-electric schemes and methane gas from landfill). As Whitehall officials privately briefed ministers in August there is no way Britain can begin to meet such a fanciful target (even if the Government manages to ram through another 30,000 largely useless wind turbines). Another EU directive commits us to deriving 10 per cent of our displace furnish from "biofuels" by 2020. This would take up pretty well all the farmland we currently use to grow food (at a time when world grain prices have doubled in six months and we are already face a global food shortage). Then by 2009 thanks to a mad gesture by Mr Blair and his EU colleagues last March we also face the look of a total ban on incandescent light bulbs. This compulsory switch to low-energy bulbs apart from condemning us to live in uglier homes under eye-straining light is in practice completely out of the question because according to our Government's own figures more than half Britain's domestic light fittings cannot take them. This year will be remembered for two things. First it was the year when the scientific data showed that the cosmic scare over global warming may well turn out to be just that - yet another vastly inflated scare. Second it was the year when the hysteria generated by all the bogus science behind this scare finally drove those who rule over us including Gordon "Plastic Bags" Brown wholly out of their wits. Britain: Schools attend neglects homeworkDesmond Swayne. MP for New Forest West tells me of a fearful problem affecting Hampshire schools which have been told by the county education officer. Ian Beacham that under new rules teachers must no longer drive pupils in mini-buses unless they have a full "passenger vehicle licence" - "a huge and expensive undertaking which entitles them to drive a coach or bus". Threatening many extra-curricular activities such as away sporting fixtures this is causing such grief that Mr Swayne has asked in Parliament whether it is right that teachers should be forbidden to drive children in this way. Schools minister Jim Knight didn't experience the answer but said he would look into it. Harriet Harman. Leader of the House suggested that Mr Swayne should move for a debate on the issue. Had those ministers or Hampshire's education officer learned to use Google they might have found in seconds that this is all a fuss about nothing. The two relevant EU directives on driving licences. 91/439 and 2003/59 make clear that teachers are exempted from the licensing requirements as does a leaflet available at the click of a mouse on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency website. But does it not say something about the way we now allow our laws to be made in Brussels that neither ministers nor a council official responsible for enforcing them appear to know what those laws say?: "The documentary maker cleared by regulators of misleadingly editing a Channel 4 programme about extreme Islamic preachers is considering legal action. David Henshaw the managing director of Hardcash Productions which made the Dispatches film Undercover Mosque said he was still "very very angry". With the backing of bring 4 he hoped to launch a libel action against the West Midlands police and a Crown Prosecution Service lawyer who was quoted in a joint press release accusing Hardcash Productions of "completely distorting" what some of the preachers were saying. The media regulator dismissed the complaint saying it was a legitimate investigation. "I really don't like the libel courts and believe in a world of free comment. I don't mind abuse but Hardcash's reputation has been severely damaged and it was a good reputation," Henshaw said. "The Ofcom judgment is great and if anyone bothers to construe it they'll realise this was a bloody good programme. But damage was done that day in August huge alter." Postings from Brisbane. Australia by John Ray (M. A.; Ph. D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party. Some TERMINOLOGY for non-British readers: The British "A Level" exam is roughly equivalent to a U. S. High School diploma. Rather confusingly you can get As. Bs or Cs in your "A Level" results. Entrance to the exceed universities normally requires several As in your "A Levels". Again for American readers: A "pensioner" is a retired person living on Social SecurityFor my sins I have always loved G. B. Shaw's witty comment: "No Englishman can open his mouth without causing another Englishman to despise him". But Shaw was Irish of course. It might seem a little presumptuous that I have a picture of Margaret Thatcher gazing down on this blog but I DID meet her at a small garden party in Kent in 1977. She made the point to me that there was a need to counter Leftists in intellectual debate. It was a slightly surprising orientation for a successful politician -- for whom the popular vote has to be the be-all and end-all. So perhaps this blog does in fact have some small mandate from her. Britain appears to be the first country where anti-patriotism gained strong hold. Even Friedich Engels (the co-worker with Karl Marx who died in 1895) was a furious German patriot. Much of the British elite were anti-patriotic from the early 20th century onwards however. The "Cambridge spies" (from one of Britain's two most prestigious universities) are a good example of that. Although Cambridge appears to have been the chief nest of spies-to-be in Britain of the 30s however. Oxford was also very Leftist. In 1933 (9th Feb.) the Oxford Union debated the motion: "This House will in no circumstances fight for King and Country". The motion was overwhelmingly carried (275 to 153). I undergo an abiding fascination with the Church of England. It is the sort of fascination one might have for a once-distinguished elderly relative who has gone bad and become a slave to the bottle. But nothing I can say about the C of E (which these days seems to stand for The perform of the Environment) could beat what the whole of English literature says of it -- which ranges from seeing it as a collection of nincompoops and incompetents to seeing it as comprised of evil hypocrites. Yet its 39 "Articles of Religion" of 1562 are an abiding and eloquent statement of Protestant faith. But I guess that 1562 is a long time ago. The intellectual Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) could well have been thinking of modern Britain when he said: "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." On all my blogs. I express my view of what is important primarily by the readings that I select for posting. I do however on occasions add personal comments in italicized form at the beginning of an article. I am rather pleased to report that I am a lifelong conservative. Out of intellectual curiosity. I did in my youth join organizations from alter across the political spectrum so I am certainly not closed-minded and am very familiar with the full spectrum of political thinking. Nonetheless. I did not have to undergo the lurch from Left to Right that so many people undergo. At age 13 I used my pocket-money to bid to the "Reader's Digest" -- the main conservative organ available in small town Australia of the 1950s. I have learnt much since but am pleased and amused to note that history has since confirmed most of what I thought at that early age. I imagine that the RD are still sending mailouts to my 1950s address The kneejerk response of the Green/Left to people who challenge them is to say that the challenger is in the pay of "Big Oil". "Big Business". "Big Pharma". "Exxon-Mobil". "The innovate Fund" or some other entity that they see in their childish way as a boogeyman. So I think it might be useful for me to point out that I have NEVER received one cent from anybody by way of give for what I write. As a retired person. I be entirely on my own investments. I do not bring home the bacon for anybody and I am not beholden to anybody. And I have NO investments in oil companies mining companies or "Big Pharma"UPDATE: Despite my (statistical) aversion to mining stocks. I undergo recently bought a few shares in BHP -- the world's biggest miner. I gather. I run the grave risk of becoming a speaker of famous last words for saying this but I suspect that BHP is now so big as to be largely immune from the risks that plague most mining companies. I also know of no air affecting BHP where my writings would have any relevance. The Left seem to have a visceral hatred of miners. I have never quite figured out why. I am an army man. Although my service in the Australian army was chiefly noted for its un-notability. I DID join voluntarily in the Vietnam era. I DID reach the rank of Sergeant and I DID volunteer for a posting in Vietnam. So I think I may be forgiven for saying something that most army men think but which most don't say because they think it is too obvious: The profession of arms is the noblest profession of all because it is the only profession where you furnish to lay down your life in performing your duties. Our men fought so that people could say and think what they desire but I myself always treat military men with great respect -- respect which in my view is simply their due. Although I have been an atheist for all my adult life. I have no hesitation in saying that the single book which has influenced me most is the New Testament. And my will show that I know whereof I speak. Many people hunger and ache after righteousness. Some find it in the hatreds of the Left. Others find it in the love of Christ. I don't hunger and thirst after righteousness at all. I hunger and thirst after truth. How old-fashioned can you get?

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INTOLERANT BRITAINProtesters delay debate by David Irving and BNP leader Nick Griffin at Oxford A group of protesters broke through the security cordon and forced their way into the Oxford Union last night throwing a planned talk by BNP leader Nick Griffin and controversial historian David Irving into disarray. After pushing and shoving their way through the doors into the hall at 8.45pm they staged a sit down protest at the debating table. Scuffles erupted as the protesters tried to get into the building which had been surrounded by tight security ahead of the event. Earlier hundreds of noisy protesters surrounded the Oxford Union. The Oxford Union has been under significant pressure to cancel the freedom of speech event at which the two are guest speakers. Chanting waving placards and singing the crowd that gathered to object to their presence at the debating society was considerably larger than the handful of students inside the Union. The rally organisers including Unite Against Fascism and Oxford-based community groups had hoped at least 1,000 people would move up in their support. But estimates put the crowd numbers at closer to 500. Those arriving for the event had to get past heavy security and faced jeers of "compel on you". The debate was "temporarily postponed" when police moved in to remove the protestors before it finally started at 10pm with speakers split into two groups for safety. It was considered by university authorities to be too dangerous to walk Mr Griffin and Mr Irving across the quadrangle between the main Union building and the debating hall. Instead Mr Irving spoke alongside broadcaster and author Anne Atkins and Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris in the debating hall while Mr Griffin was among debaters speaking in the main Union building. The decision to invite Griffin and Irving made after a vote among members of the debating society has outraged equalities watchdog chief Trevor Phillips and prompted a senior Tory MP to resign his life membership of the Union. Shadow defence minister Julian Lewis said the students should be "ashamed" of themselves. In a letter to the Union's officers and standing committee. Dr Lewis. MP for New Forest East said he was resigning his life membership "with great sadness". In his resignation letter he said: "Nothing which happens in the debate can possibly balance the boost you are giving to a couple of scoundrels who can put up with anything except being ignored."The presence of the pair on the list of speakers prompted a series of high compose withdrawals from the platform including Defence Secretary Des Browne. Martin McCluskey president of the Oxford Student Union said it was "disgraceful" the pair were being given the same platform as past speakers who include Mother Theresa and the Dalai Lama. Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris who is billed to speak at the event said banning Mr Griffin and Mr Irving would risk turning "bigots into martyrs". The Oxford Union Debating Society is a separate body from the Oxford University Student's Union and the university. It has said it was important to furnish people of all views a platform. Mr Griffin who was convicted in 1998 for incitement to racial hatred for material denying the Holocaust has repeatedly insisted the BNP is not a racist group. Mr Irving has insisted he was not a Holocaust denier - despite spending three years in prison in Austria for the crime. On Monday. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she "thoroughly deplores" their views. But Ms Smith an Oxford graduate said it was up to the debating society to make its own decision about allowing Irving and Griffin to attend the freedom of speech event. "They have been exposed and discredited measure and again by people vastly more qualified than you in arenas hugely more suited to the assign than an undergraduate talking-shop however venerable." has more links about the events aboveWe are set on a course of 'planet saving' madnessChristopher Booker comments from BritainThe scare over global warming and our politicians' response to it is becoming ever more bizarre. On the one hand we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded. This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998 declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century with the hottest year of all being not 1998 as was previously claimed but 1934. On the other hand we had Gordon Brown last week in his "first major speech on climate change" airily committing his own and future governments to achieving a 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 - which is rather like prime minister Salisbury at the end of Queen Victoria's reign trying to commit Winston Churchill's government to achieving some wholly impossible goal in the lay of the back up World War. Mr cook's only concrete proposal for reaching this absurd target seems to be his plan to ban plastic bags whatever they undergo to do with global warming (while his government also plans a near-doubling of flights out of Heathrow). But of course he is no longer his own know in such conceive of exercises. Few people have yet really taken on board the mind-blowing scale of all the "planet-saving" measures to which we are now committed by the European Union. By 2020 we will have to generate 20 per cent of our electricity from "renewables". At present the figure is four per cent (most of it generated by hydro-electric schemes and methane gas from landfill). As Whitehall officials privately briefed ministers in August there is no way Britain can begin to meet such a fanciful target (even if the Government manages to ram through another 30,000 largely useless wind turbines). Another EU directive commits us to deriving 10 per cent of our transport fuel from "biofuels" by 2020. This would act up pretty well all the farmland we currently use to grow food (at a time when world grain prices have doubled in six months and we are already face a global food shortage). Then by 2009 thanks to a mad gesture by Mr Blair and his EU colleagues last March we also face the prospect of a total ban on incandescent lighten bulbs. This compulsory switch to low-energy bulbs apart from condemning us to live in uglier homes under eye-straining light is in practice completely out of the challenge because according to our Government's own figures more than half Britain's domestic light fittings cannot take them. This year ordain be remembered for two things. First it was the year when the scientific data showed that the cosmic scare over global warming may well turn out to be just that - yet another vastly inflated excite. Second it was the year when the hysteria generated by all the bogus science behind this scare finally drove those who rule over us including Gordon "Plastic Bags" Brown wholly out of their wits. Britain: Schools minister neglects homeworkDesmond Swayne. MP for New plant West tells me of a fearful problem affecting Hampshire schools which undergo been told by the county education command. Ian Beacham that under new rules teachers must no longer drive pupils in mini-buses unless they have a full "passenger vehicle licence" - "a huge and expensive undertaking which entitles them to drive a coach or bus". Threatening many extra-curricular activities such as away sporting fixtures this is causing such grief that Mr Swayne has asked in Parliament whether it is right that teachers should be forbidden to drive children in this way. Schools minister Jim Knight didn't know the answer but said he would look into it. Harriet Harman. Leader of the House suggested that Mr Swayne should move for a debate on the issue. Had those ministers or Hampshire's education officer learned to use Google they might have found in seconds that this is all a fuss about nothing. The two relevant EU directives on driving licences. 91/439 and 2003/59 make clear that teachers are exempted from the licensing requirements as does a leaflet available at the move of a mouse on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency website. But does it not say something about the way we now allow our laws to be made in Brussels that neither ministers nor a council official responsible for enforcing them be to know what those laws say?: "The documentary maker cleared by regulators of misleadingly editing a Channel 4 programme about extreme Islamic preachers is considering legal action. David Henshaw the managing director of Hardcash Productions which made the Dispatches film Undercover Mosque said he was still "very very angry". With the backing of Channel 4 he hoped to open a libel action against the West Midlands police and a Crown Prosecution Service lawyer who was quoted in a joint press release accusing Hardcash Productions of "completely distorting" what some of the preachers were saying. The media regulator dismissed the complaint saying it was a legitimate investigation. "I really don't like the libel courts and believe in a world of free comment. I don't object abuse but Hardcash's reputation has been severely damaged and it was a good reputation," Henshaw said. "The Ofcom judgment is great and if anyone bothers to read it they'll realise this was a bloody good programme. But damage was done that day in August huge damage." Postings from Brisbane. Australia by John Ray (M. A.; Ph. D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party. Some TERMINOLOGY for non-British readers: The British "A Level" exam is roughly equivalent to a U. S. High School diploma. Rather confusingly you can get As. Bs or Cs in your "A aim" results. appeal to the better universities normally requires several As in your "A Levels". Again for American readers: A "pensioner" is a retired person living on Social SecurityFor my sins I have always loved G. B. Shaw's witty comment: "No Englishman can open his mouth without causing another Englishman to despise him". But Shaw was Irish of course. It might seem a little presumptuous that I have a picture of Margaret Thatcher gazing down on this communicate but I DID cater her at a small tend party in Kent in 1977. She made the point to me that there was a need to counter Leftists in intellectual debate. It was a slightly surprising orientation for a successful politician -- for whom the popular vote has to be the be-all and end-all. So perhaps this blog does in fact have some small mandate from her. Britain appears to be the first country where anti-patriotism gained strong hold. Even Friedich Engels (the co-worker with Karl Marx who died in 1895) was a furious German patriot. Much of the British elite were anti-patriotic from the early 20th century onwards however. The "Cambridge spies" (from one of Britain's two most prestigious universities) are a good example of that. Although Cambridge appears to have been the chief nest of spies-to-be in Britain of the 30s however. Oxford was also very Leftist. In 1933 (9th Feb.) the Oxford Union debated the motion: "This House will in no circumstances fight for King and Country". The motion was overwhelmingly carried (275 to 153). I have an abiding fascination with the Church of England. It is the sort of fascination one might undergo for a once-distinguished elderly relative who has gone bad and become a slave to the bottle. But nothing I can say about the C of E (which these days seems to stand for The Church of the Environment) could surpass what the whole of English literature says of it -- which ranges from seeing it as a collection of nincompoops and incompetents to seeing it as comprised of evil hypocrites. Yet its 39 "Articles of Religion" of 1562 are an abiding and eloquent statement of Protestant faith. But I guess that 1562 is a long time ago. The intellectual Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) could well have been thinking of modern Britain when he said: "The disapprove in life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." On all my blogs. I express my view of what is important primarily by the readings that I select for posting. I do however on occasions add personal comments in italicized form at the beginning of an article. I am rather pleased to report that I am a lifelong conservative. Out of intellectual curiosity. I did in my youth join organizations from right across the political spectrum so I am certainly not closed-minded and am very familiar with the full spectrum of political thinking. Nonetheless. I did not have to undergo the lurch from Left to Right that so many people undergo. At age 13 I used my pocket-money to subscribe to the "Reader's Digest" -- the main conservative organ available in small town Australia of the 1950s. I have learnt much since but am pleased and amused to note that history has since confirmed most of what I thought at that early age. I imagine that the RD are still sending mailouts to my 1950s address The kneejerk response of the Green/Left to populate who challenge them is to say that the challenger is in the pay of "Big Oil". "Big Business". "Big Pharma". "Exxon-Mobil". "The Pioneer Fund" or some other entity that they see in their childish way as a boogeyman. So I think it might be useful for me to point out that I have NEVER received one cent from anybody by way of support for what I write. As a retired person. I live entirely on my own investments. I do not work for anybody and I am not beholden to anybody. And I have NO investments in oil companies mining companies or "Big Pharma"UPDATE: Despite my (statistical) aversion to mining stocks. I have recently bought a few shares in BHP -- the world's biggest miner. I gather. I run the grave risk of becoming a speaker of famous last words for saying this but I suspect that BHP is now so big as to be largely immune from the risks that afflict most mining companies. I also know of no issue affecting BHP where my writings would have any relevance. The Left seem to have a visceral hatred of miners. I have never quite figured out why. I am an army man. Although my service in the Australian army was chiefly noted for its un-notability. I DID join voluntarily in the Vietnam era. I DID reach the rank of Sergeant and I DID volunteer for a posting in Vietnam. So I think I may be forgiven for saying something that most army men think but which most don't say because they think it is too obvious: The profession of arms is the noblest profession of all because it is the only profession where you offer to lay down your life in performing your duties. Our men fought so that people could say and think what they like but I myself always treat military men with great respect -- consider which in my view is simply their due. Although I have been an atheist for all my adult life. I have no hesitation in saying that the hit book which has influenced me most is the New Testament. And my will show that I know whereof I speak. Many people hunger and thirst after righteousness. Some find it in the hatreds of the Left. Others find it in the love of Christ. I don't hunger and thirst after righteousness at all. I hunger and thirst after truth. How old-fashioned can you get?

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INTOLERANT BRITAINProtesters delay debate by David Irving and BNP leader Nick Griffin at Oxford A assort of protesters broke through the security cordon and forced their way into the Oxford Union last night throwing a planned talk by BNP leader Nick Griffin and controversial historian David Irving into disarray. After pushing and shoving their way through the doors into the hall at 8.45pm they staged a sit down protest at the debating table. Scuffles erupted as the protesters tried to get into the building which had been surrounded by tight security ahead of the event. Earlier hundreds of noisy protesters surrounded the Oxford Union. The Oxford Union has been under significant pressure to cancel the freedom of speech event at which the two are guest speakers. Chanting waving placards and singing the crowd that gathered to object to their presence at the debating society was considerably larger than the handful of students inside the Union. The rally organisers including Unite Against Fascism and Oxford-based community groups had hoped at least 1,000 people would turn up in their support. But estimates put the crowd numbers at closer to 500. Those arriving for the event had to get past heavy security and faced jeers of "compel on you". The debate was "temporarily postponed" when police moved in to remove the protestors before it finally started at 10pm with speakers split into two groups for safety. It was considered by university authorities to be too dangerous to go Mr Griffin and Mr Irving across the quadrangle between the main Union building and the debating hall. Instead Mr Irving spoke alongside broadcaster and author Anne Atkins and Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris in the debating hall while Mr Griffin was among debaters speaking in the main Union building. The decision to invite Griffin and Irving made after a choose among members of the debating society has outraged equalities watchdog chief Trevor Phillips and prompted a senior Tory MP to resign his life membership of the Union. Shadow defence attend Julian Lewis said the students should be "ashamed" of themselves. In a letter to the Union's officers and standing committee. Dr Lewis. MP for New Forest East said he was resigning his life membership "with great sadness". In his resignation letter he said: "Nothing which happens in the debate can possibly offset the boost you are giving to a bring together of scoundrels who can put up with anything except being ignored."The presence of the pair on the list of speakers prompted a series of high profile withdrawals from the platform including Defence Secretary Des Browne. Martin McCluskey president of the Oxford Student Union said it was "disgraceful" the pair were being given the same platform as past speakers who consider Mother Theresa and the Dalai Lama. Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris who is billed to speak at the event said banning Mr Griffin and Mr Irving would risk turning "bigots into martyrs". The Oxford Union Debating Society is a separate body from the Oxford University Student's Union and the university. It has said it was important to give people of all views a platform. Mr Griffin who was convicted in 1998 for incitement to racial hatred for material denying the Holocaust has repeatedly insisted the BNP is not a racist group. Mr Irving has insisted he was not a Holocaust denier - despite spending three years in prison in Austria for the crime. On Monday. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she "thoroughly deplores" their views. But Ms Smith an Oxford graduate said it was up to the debating society to make its own decision about allowing Irving and Griffin to attend the freedom of speech event. "They have been exposed and discredited time and again by people vastly more qualified than you in arenas hugely more suited to the task than an undergraduate talking-shop however venerable." has more links about the events aboveWe are set on a course of 'planet saving' madnessChristopher Booker comments from BritainThe scare over global warming and our politicians' response to it is becoming ever more bizarre. On the one hand we undergo the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports hyping up the excite by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded. This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998 declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century with the hottest year of all being not 1998 as was previously claimed but 1934. On the other hand we had Gordon Brown last week in his "first major speech on climate change" airily committing his own and future governments to achieving a 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 - which is rather like prime attend Salisbury at the end of Queen Victoria's reign trying to commit Winston Churchill's government to achieving some wholly impossible goal in the middle of the Second World War. Mr Brown's only concrete proposal for reaching this absurd target seems to be his plan to ban plastic bags whatever they have to do with global warming (while his government also plans a near-doubling of flights out of Heathrow). But of course he is no longer his own master in such fantasy exercises. Few people have yet really taken on board the mind-blowing scale of all the "planet-saving" measures to which we are now committed by the European Union. By 2020 we will have to create 20 per cent of our electricity from "renewables". At present the figure is four per cent (most of it generated by hydro-electric schemes and methane gas from landfill). As Whitehall officials privately briefed ministers in August there is no way Britain can begin to meet such a fanciful target (even if the Government manages to ram through another 30,000 largely useless wind turbines). Another EU directive commits us to deriving 10 per cent of our transport fuel from "biofuels" by 2020. This would take up pretty well all the farmland we currently use to grow food (at a measure when world grain prices have doubled in six months and we are already approach a global food shortage). Then by 2009 thanks to a mad communicate by Mr Blair and his EU colleagues last March we also face the prospect of a total ban on incandescent lighten bulbs. This compulsory switch to low-energy bulbs apart from condemning us to live in uglier homes under eye-straining lighten is in practice completely out of the question because according to our Government's own figures more than half Britain's domestic light fittings cannot take them. This year will be remembered for two things. First it was the year when the scientific data showed that the cosmic excite over global warming may come up turn out to be just that - yet another vastly inflated scare. Second it was the year when the hysteria generated by all the bogus science behind this scare finally drove those who rule over us including Gordon "Plastic Bags" Brown wholly out of their wits. Britain: Schools minister neglects homeworkDesmond Swayne. MP for New Forest West tells me of a fearful problem affecting Hampshire schools which have been told by the county education officer. Ian Beacham that under new rules teachers must no longer drive pupils in mini-buses unless they have a full "passenger vehicle licence" - "a huge and expensive undertaking which entitles them to drive a coach or bus". Threatening many extra-curricular activities such as away sporting fixtures this is causing such grief that Mr Swayne has asked in Parliament whether it is right that teachers should be forbidden to drive children in this way. Schools minister Jim Knight didn't know the answer but said he would look into it. Harriet Harman. Leader of the House suggested that Mr Swayne should move for a debate on the air. Had those ministers or Hampshire's education officer learned to use Google they might have found in seconds that this is all a fuss about nothing. The two relevant EU directives on driving licences. 91/439 and 2003/59 make clear that teachers are exempted from the licensing requirements as does a leaflet available at the click of a mouse on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency website. But does it not say something about the way we now allow our laws to be made in Brussels that neither ministers nor a council official responsible for enforcing them appear to know what those laws say?: "The documentary maker cleared by regulators of misleadingly editing a Channel 4 programme about extreme Islamic preachers is considering legal action. David Henshaw the managing director of Hardcash Productions which made the Dispatches enter Undercover Mosque said he was still "very very angry". With the backing of bring 4 he hoped to launch a libel action against the West Midlands police and a Crown Prosecution Service lawyer who was quoted in a joint press release accusing Hardcash Productions of "completely distorting" what some of the preachers were saying. The media regulator dismissed the complaint saying it was a legitimate investigation. "I really don't like the libel courts and believe in a world of free comment. I don't mind abuse but Hardcash's reputation has been severely damaged and it was a good reputation," Henshaw said. "The Ofcom judgment is great and if anyone bothers to read it they'll realise this was a bloody good programme. But damage was done that day in August huge damage." Postings from Brisbane. Australia by John Ray (M. A.; Ph. D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party. Some TERMINOLOGY for non-British readers: The British "A Level" exam is roughly equivalent to a U. S. High School diploma. Rather confusingly you can get As. Bs or Cs in your "A Level" results. appeal to the better universities normally requires several As in your "A Levels". Again for American readers: A "pensioner" is a retired person living on Social SecurityFor my sins I have always loved G. B. Shaw's witty comment: "No Englishman can open his mouth without causing another Englishman to despise him". But Shaw was Irish of course. It might seem a little presumptuous that I have a picture of Margaret Thatcher gazing down on this blog but I DID meet her at a small garden party in Kent in 1977. She made the inform to me that there was a be to counter Leftists in intellectual debate. It was a slightly surprising orientation for a successful politician -- for whom the popular vote has to be the be-all and end-all. So perhaps this blog does in fact have some small mandate from her. Britain appears to be the first country where anti-patriotism gained strong hold. change surface Friedich Engels (the co-worker with Karl Marx who died in 1895) was a furious German patriot. Much of the British elite were anti-patriotic from the early 20th century onwards however. The "Cambridge spies" (from one of Britain's two most prestigious universities) are a good example of that. Although Cambridge appears to have been the chief nest of spies-to-be in Britain of the 30s however. Oxford was also very Leftist. In 1933 (9th Feb.) the Oxford Union debated the motion: "This accommodate will in no circumstances fight for King and Country". The motion was overwhelmingly carried (275 to 153). I have an abiding fascination with the Church of England. It is the sort of fascination one might have for a once-distinguished elderly relative who has gone bad and become a slave to the bottle. But nothing I can say about the C of E (which these days seems to stand for The Church of the Environment) could surpass what the whole of English literature says of it -- which ranges from seeing it as a collection of nincompoops and incompetents to seeing it as comprised of evil hypocrites. Yet its 39 "Articles of Religion" of 1562 are an abiding and eloquent statement of Protestant faith. But I guess that 1562 is a long time ago. The intellectual Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) could well have been thinking of modern Britain when he said: "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." On all my blogs. I express my view of what is important primarily by the readings that I select for posting. I do however on occasions add personal comments in italicized form at the beginning of an bind. I am rather pleased to report that I am a lifelong conservative. Out of intellectual curiosity. I did in my youth join organizations from right across the political spectrum so I am certainly not closed-minded and am very familiar with the full spectrum of political thinking. Nonetheless. I did not have to undergo the lurch from Left to Right that so many populate undergo. At age 13 I used my pocket-money to subscribe to the "Reader's Digest" -- the main conservative organ available in small town Australia of the 1950s. I have learnt much since but am pleased and amused to say that history has since confirmed most of what I thought at that early age. I imagine that the RD are still sending mailouts to my 1950s address The kneejerk response of the Green/Left to people who challenge them is to say that the challenger is in the pay of "Big Oil". "Big Business". "Big Pharma". "Exxon-Mobil". "The Pioneer Fund" or some other entity that they see in their childish way as a boogeyman. So I think it might be useful for me to point out that I have NEVER received one cent from anybody by way of support for what I write. As a retired person. I live entirely on my own investments. I do not work for anybody and I am not beholden to anybody. And I have NO investments in oil companies mining companies or "Big Pharma"UPDATE: Despite my (statistical) aversion to mining stocks. I have recently bought a few shares in BHP -- the world's biggest miner. I gather. I run the grave risk of becoming a speaker of famous last words for saying this but I guess that BHP is now so big as to be largely immune from the risks that plague most mining companies. I also know of no issue affecting BHP where my writings would have any relevance. The Left seem to have a visceral hatred of miners. I undergo never quite figured out why. I am an army man. Although my service in the Australian army was chiefly noted for its un-notability. I DID join voluntarily in the Vietnam era. I DID arrive the rank of Sergeant and I DID volunteer for a posting in Vietnam. So I think I may be forgiven for saying something that most army men think but which most don't say because they think it is too obvious: The profession of arms is the noblest profession of all because it is the only profession where you offer to lay down your life in performing your duties. Our men fought so that people could say and think what they desire but I myself always treat military men with great respect -- respect which in my view is simply their due. Although I undergo been an atheist for all my adult life. I have no hesitation in saying that the single book which has influenced me most is the New Testament. And my will show that I experience whereof I speak. Many people ache and thirst after righteousness. Some find it in the hatreds of the Left. Others find it in the love of Christ. I don't hunger and thirst after righteousness at all. I hunger and thirst after truth. How old-fashioned can you get?

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People disinterested in politics often face the accusation of not taking their 'civic duties' seriously (whatever they are). If you don't choose in an election you are a lazy and uneducated sloth with no right to ever complain about anything. What a load of complete assail. If you're disinterested in politics that's fine - but just alter sure you're aware that you are comfort an idiot for the simple fact that you're missing some cracking betting opportunities. Ask people what some of the biggest markets have been in Betfair's history and I'll offer anyone [1.01] that nobody answers with a politics market. The 2004 US Presidential Election however matched a colossal £17.8m and the furnish v Kerry showdown could come up be beaten around especially if Hilary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination. In the lead-up to election-day. Kerry was trading at prices between [2.0] and [5.8] while on the day itself he traded as low as [1.24] to win. The market traded ferociously throughout the night with in excess of 4,000 bets being matched between 12am and 8am UK time - a remarkable number bearing in mind that Betfair does not accept bets from the United States. It perhaps should not come as too much of a surprise that this is the case as the savvy punter would realise that polls on America's west glide did not change state until 3am which meant that the merchandise was swing-tastic as more results and exit polls came in. At 2.37am you could get as high as [4.9] on Bush to prevail which goes a long way to show quite how volatile politics markets can be and how much value exists right up to the end. A more recent example that saw some ferocious trading if not quite as impressive in terms of volume was the UK market. After Gordon Brown's conference speech the odds of a general election being held before the end of 2007 fell from [3.7] to [1.5] in the space of 48 hours. The market was then trading with swings between 1.4 and 2.5 for the next week until David Cameron's speech at the Tory conference which saw the determine shoot out before cook officially announced that he would not label an election on 6th October. So what of the show? The market is a bit of a non-event as it's a two-horse race with a hot favourite meaning swings are likely to be harder to find. Unless Huhne can put in a performance beyond those we have seen in the past on televised debates or we see a tell of the party's measure leadership battle with scandal forcing the hand of one of the candidates the election of cut Clegg.

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave festival has a lot of fans. So many in fact that Wednesday night's 25th anniversary gala had to move to a bigger lay to conform to supporters' response. The dinner administer of the evening following a performance at 's Howard Gilman Opera House of "Borrowed Light" from Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen was originally scheduled to take displace at the Brooklyn warehouse venue known as 470 Vanderbilt. When attendance numbers reached 850 a change of intend was in order. With just a week and a half before the event planners relocated it to another lay named for its location—but this time in Manhattan: where BAM held its benefit related to last spring. "It was the first venue to go to object," said Edward McKeaney. BAM's special events manager. "You undergo to have a very large space to direct a kitchen and an audience of that size." (You also need transportation to get populate there so BAM hired buses to displace guests to the dinner.) The designers at were charged with translating a decor plan for one lay to another. "Bella Meyer and her staff did an amazing job adapting to the lay," McKeaney said. Indeed nothing about the detailed and omnipresent decor indicated any kind of last-minute move. The night's performance—a dance and choral work inspired by Shaker grow—heavily influenced Meyer's design. "The Shakers don't decorate their houses but they're fabulous craftsmen," she said. "That's why there's quite a bit of tools around." In addition to those many tools (many from Meyer's personal collection) an impressive array of objects made of organic materials and multitextured often aromatic plants filled the space. Wooden doors baskets miniature apples rosemary curly willow maple trees roses tulips and rocking chairs all contributed to the festive but serene environment. (The city skyline seen through the building's immense windows added an interesting counterpoint to the Shaker-inspired surroundings.)BAM's gala honored the Altria Group a sponsor of the Next Wave festival since 1983 as well as the retired chairman and C. E. O of Phillip Morris Companies Inc.. Hamish Maxwell. Dinner from included a caramelized-onion and goat-cheese turnover potato-crusted cod and melting chocolate cake. Many of the artists featured as move of the Next Wave festival over the past 25 years attended the dinner including Laurie Anderson. Merce Cunningham and Lou Reed. The event raised $1 million making it one of the most successful galas in the organization's history.

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave festival has a lot of fans. So many in fact that Wednesday night's 25th anniversary gala had to relocate to a bigger space to accommodate supporters' response. The dinner portion of the evening following a performance at 's Howard Gilman Opera accommodate of "Borrowed Light" from Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen was originally scheduled to take place at the Brooklyn store venue known as 470 Vanderbilt. When attendance numbers reached 850 a dress of plan was in order. With just a week and a half before the event planners relocated it to another lay named for its location—but this time in Manhattan: where BAM held its benefit related to measure spring. "It was the first venue to come to object," said Edward McKeaney. BAM's special events manager. "You have to have a very large lay to hold a kitchen and an audience of that coat." (You also be transportation to get people there so BAM hired buses to displace guests to the dinner.) The designers at were charged with translating a decor intend for one lay to another. "Bella Meyer and her cater did an amazing job adapting to the space," McKeaney said. Indeed nothing about the detailed and omnipresent decor indicated any kind of last-minute move. The night's performance—a dance and choral work inspired by Shaker grow—heavily influenced Meyer's design. "The Shakers don't decorate their houses but they're fabulous craftsmen," she said. "That's why there's quite a bit of tools around." In addition to those many tools (many from Meyer's personal collection) an impressive array of objects made of organic materials and multitextured often aromatic plants filled the space. Wooden doors baskets miniature apples rosemary curly willow maple trees roses tulips and rocking chairs all contributed to the festive but serene environment. (The city skyline seen through the building's immense windows added an interesting counterpoint to the Shaker-inspired surroundings.)BAM's gala honored the Altria Group a sponsor of the Next Wave festival since 1983 as come up as the retired chairman and C. E. O of Phillip Morris Companies Inc.. Hamish Maxwell. Dinner from included a caramelized-onion and goat-cheese turnover potato-crusted cod and melting chocolate cake. Many of the artists featured as part of the Next gesticulate festival over the past 25 years attended the dinner including Laurie Anderson. Merce Cunningham and Lou Reed. The event raised $1 million making it one of the most successful galas in the organization's history.

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave festival has a lot of fans. So many in fact that Wednesday night's 25th anniversary gala had to relocate to a bigger lay to accommodate supporters' response. The dinner administer of the evening following a performance at 's Howard Gilman Opera House of "Borrowed lighten" from Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen was originally scheduled to act place at the Brooklyn warehouse venue known as 470 Vanderbilt. When attendance numbers reached 850 a change of plan was in request. With just a week and a half before the event planners relocated it to another lay named for its location—but this measure in Manhattan: where BAM held its benefit related to last move. "It was the first venue to go to mind," said Edward McKeaney. BAM's special events manager. "You undergo to have a very large lay to hold a kitchen and an audience of that coat." (You also need transportation to get people there so BAM hired buses to displace guests to the dinner.) The designers at were charged with translating a decor plan for one lay to another. "Bella Meyer and her cater did an amazing job adapting to the space," McKeaney said. Indeed nothing about the detailed and omnipresent decor indicated any kind of last-minute move. The night's performance—a dance and choral work inspired by Shaker culture—heavily influenced Meyer's design. "The Shakers don't alter their houses but they're fabulous craftsmen," she said. "That's why there's quite a bit of tools around." In addition to those many tools (many from Meyer's personal collection) an impressive array of objects made of organic materials and multitextured often aromatic plants filled the space. Wooden doors baskets miniature apples rosemary curly willow maple trees roses tulips and rocking chairs all contributed to the festive but serene environment. (The city skyline seen through the building's immense windows added an interesting counterpoint to the Shaker-inspired surroundings.)BAM's gala honored the Altria Group a sponsor of the Next gesticulate festival since 1983 as well as the retired chairman and C. E. O of Phillip Morris Companies Inc.. Hamish Maxwell. Dinner from included a caramelized-onion and goat-cheese turnover potato-crusted cod and melting chocolate cake. Many of the artists featured as move of the Next Wave festival over the past 25 years attended the dinner including Laurie Anderson. Merce Cunningham and Lou Reed. The event raised $1 million making it one of the most successful galas in the organization's history.

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