Boadicea's Chariot

Akhmed Zakayev, who , fought Russia as a senior rebel commander in two wars in 1994-2000, has been granted political asylum in Britain since 2003.

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Why? Because

The European Commission has threatened to drag France before the European Court over the issue of Roma expulsions. Sarkozy has responded with a promise to dismantle all illegal camps in France. Italy has openly backed France, but I wonder how many others are watching from the sidelines with silent sympathy.

This is an interesting clash between the Commission, and a democratically elected government of an important member of the EU: a founder member, indeed. Sarkozy knows that the mass of French people are behind him on this, and he is not going to genuflect to Brussels too readily. My bet is on the Commission finding a fudge.

To err is human – and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

This morning’s Today Programme included an item on a Women’s Institute group of songsters. Sarah Montegue addressed the group as ‘you guys’, but at the end of the piece spoke of them as ladies. Is this a sign of Montegue’s confusion, or news of a liberal WI policy towards hermaphrodites?

Motorists being ripped off when looking for bargain second-hand cars, OFT warns.

Aren’t our civil servants wonderful?

Hurrah! My only question is, why was it left to developing countries to put the kibosh on this? Should our own Government not have reminded the whacky Belgian and the equally whacky EU ‘Foreign Minister,’ that the UN Charter refers only to membership for sovereign states?

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.