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Child database 'will ruin family privacy'

Such a system may also hold inaccurate information, tarnishing families or children unfairly. "Families' privacy and autonomy is being shattered as the Government puts them all under surveillance," they say. "Government policy proposes treating all parents as if they cannot be trusted to bring up their children."

Source: Telegraph (online), November 22, 2006

UK Doctors Face Jail if They Refuse to Euthanize Patients

In a statement yesterday Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor of England has warned doctors that they may face prison sentences if they refuse to starve and dehydrate patients to death. Criminal charges of assault could be laid against doctors or nurses who refuse to allow patients to die, even by removal of food and hydration tube.

Source: Life Site, November 21, 2006

Doctors face prison for denying right to die

The Lord Chancellor has warned doctors they risk going on trial for assault if they refuse to allow patients who have made 'living wills' to die.

Source: This is London, November 17, 2006

Babies 'designed' to be free of disease

Two babies have become the first in the world to be born after their mother underwent a screening process pioneered in Britain to ensure that they were clear of an inherited disease.

Source: Telegraph (online), November 15, 2006

Church supports baby euthanasia

The Church of England has joined one of Britain’s royal medical colleges in alling for legal euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies.

Source: Times Online, November 12, 2006

Euthanase disabled babies, say doctors

One of Britain's leading medical colleges is calling on the health profession to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies.

Source: The Austrailan - Health (online), November 6, 2006

Revealed: How BA bans men sitting next to children they don't know

British Airways has been accused of treating all men passengers as potential sex offenders after it was revealed it has banned children from sitting next to male strangers - even if their parents are on the same flight.

Source: Daily Mail (online), November 4, 2006

Council proposes link between cost of parking permits and individual car emissions

The owners of “Chelsea tractors”, people carriers and top of the range prestige cars face a threefold increase in the cost of their parking permits under plans unveiled by a Liberal Democrat council.

The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames is also planning to crack down on two car households, with a 50 per cent additional levy on the second vehicle.

Source: Telegraph (online), October 25, 2006

Fury as BA says it would allow Muslim veil but not cross

British Airways has been accused of appalling double standards after admitting Muslim staff may be allowed to wear veils - just weeks after it sent a Christian home for wearing a cross.

Check-in worker Nadia Eweida has been on unpaid leave for a month after the airline banned her from wearing her tiny cross on a necklace over her uniform.

Source: Daily Mail (online), October 25, 2006

Hospital admits to burning aborted babies in waste incinerator

One of the country's leading hospitals is throwing aborted babies into the same incinerator used for rubbish to save only £18.50 each time, it has emerged.

Daily Mail (online), October 23, 2006

DNA database 'should include all'

Tony Blair called yesterday for the national DNA database to be expanded to include every citizen.

Source: The Telegraph (online), October 24, 2005

BBC confesses bias on religion, politics

An internal British Broadcasting Corporation memo reveals senior figures admitted the national news agency was guilty of promoting left-wing views and anti-Christian sentiment.

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 23, 2006

Mankind to be wiped out by language police

But Glasgow City Council, whose senior figures include Lady Provost Liz Cameron and leisure director and First Minister's wife Bridget McConnell, is clear about the problem of oppressed women in its ranks.

The issue is laid out in "Language Matters: A Guide for Good Practice", which has been circulated to the council's staff and elected officials....

"Don't assume it is acceptable to address women by endearments such as 'dear', 'pet' and 'love' when you would not address men in such a way," the guide instructs. "Don't refer to women as 'girls', for example, 'the girls in the office'."

Source: Scotland on Sunday (online), October 22, 2006

Universities urged to spy on Muslims

Lecturers and university staff across Britain are to be asked to spy on "Asian-looking" and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence, the Guardian has learned.

Source: Guardian (online), October 16, 2006

Airline bans woman from wearing cross

British Airways has banned a Christian woman from wearing a cross on a necklace to work, a British newspaper reports.

Source: WorldNetDaily, October 15, 2006

Council launches 'shop your neighbour' dustbin hotline

Homeowners are being asked to spy on their neighbours and report them if they are not recycling, it emerged....

The plan to get residents to report their neighbours was revealed after Teignbridge District Council distributed thousands of leaflets asking residents to look out for people who do not recycle correctly.

Source: ThisIsLondon, October 12, 2006

Schoolgirl arrested for refusing to study with non-English pupils

A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English.

Source: Daily Mail (online), October 13, 2006

Row as 7-year-olds are taught to act out smoking cannabis

Primary school pupils are being told to pretend they are smoking joints at a party and dealing acid and ecstasy in controversial new drugs education classes....

Children as young as nine are required to assume the part of drug-dealers while seven-year-olds can act out drinking alcohol at a cousin's wedding.

Source: The Daily Mail (online), October 6, 2006

Insurance car tracker will be spy for police

Police will be able to tell whether drivers who crash were speeding by checking the black boxes being fitted to thousands of cars by Britain’s biggest insurance company.

Source: TimesOnLine, October 5, 2006

And the gays went in two by two . . .

It was supposed to be a joke, but colleagues in a politically correct town hall failed to see the funny side when a Tory councillor suggested that nowadays Noah would have been unable to insist on taking only animals of the opposite sex in his Ark....

“I urge if we are truly going to embrace diversity all members should have compulsory equality training. I would urge those enlightened Conservative councillors, and I know there are some, to challenge Councillor Clutterbuck on his attitudes to minority communities.”

Source: TimesOnLine, October 5, 2005

Schoolgirls forced to strip to underwear in front of boys for PE

Parents staged an angry protest after their young daughters were forced to strip to their underwear in front of boys at school.

The girls, aged ten and 11, were left in tears after being ordered to change for PE in a mixed classroom under a school policy blamed on health and safety regulations.

Source: ThisIsLondon, September 30, 2006

Muslim teacher in carol concert tirade is made Ofsted inspector

A hardline Muslim teacher who caused a furore by denouncing pupils for celebrating Christmas has been made a Government schools inspector.

Source: ThisIsLondon, September 30, 2006

Cemetery to bury all, Christians too, facing Mecca

A new, $4.7 million cemetery in Nottingham is the first public graveyard in the UK to have all its burial plots aligned with Mecca and to inter those of all faiths in the Muslim tradition.

Source: WorldNetDaily, September 24, 2006

Big Brother is shouting at you

Big Brother is not only watching you - now he's barking orders too. Britain's first 'talking' CCTV cameras have arrived, publicly berating bad behaviour and shaming offenders into acting more responsibly.

The system allows control room operators who spot any anti-social acts - from dropping litter to late-night brawls - to send out a verbal warning: 'We are watching you'.

Source: The Daily Mail (online), September 16, 2006

Police officers who chase criminals could face sack

Police officers who launch chases over roofs, railway lines and busy roads could be sacked for putting the health and safety of criminals at risk, it has emerged.

Source: ThisIsLondon, September 15, 2006

Blair to target the ASBO babies

Tony Blair has unveiled a provocative campaign to crack down on future problem children before they are even born.

He set out plans for massively increased state intervention in the homes of 'nuisance' families to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Source: ThisIsLondon, August 31, 2006

'Big Brother' concerns as secret system of cameras is rolled out

A network of secret roadside cameras used to track terror suspects, drug traffickers and child abductors has been rolled out across Scotland, police have revealed.

Senior officers have told The Scotsman that the installation of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras was completed this month, allowing detectives to monitor the movements of suspects from a 4,000 name watchlist as they travel on major routes across the country.

Source: The Scottsman (online), August 26, 2006

Government may charge for info

The Government is already considering curbing Freedom of Information (FOI) laws barely a year and a half after they came into force, it was reported.

A leaked cabinet paper reveals plans to block "the most difficult requests" made by the public to Whitehall departments.

This is London, July 30, 2006

Three-year-olds to be taught about gay relationships

Children as young as three should be taught about same-sex relationships in a bid to stamp out homophobia in schools, it was claimed yesterday.

The National Union of Teachers, the country's largest teaching union, sparked outrage by demanding that nursery staff help to educate children about gay families.

The Daily Mail (online), July 21, 2006

Schools told it's no longer necessary to teach right from wrong

Schools would no longer be required to teach children the difference between right and wrong under plans to revise the core aims of the National Curriculum....

The draft also purges references to promoting leadership skills and deletes the requirement to teach children about Britain’s cultural heritage.

Source: Times On Line, July 31, 2006

Relatives to be targeted if DNA draws a blank

Criminals who have left forensic traces at serious crime scenes but cannot be found on the national DNA database are being targeted in an initiative encouraging police to identify offenders through their relatives.

Source: The Telegraph (online), June 26, 2006

Councils can grab homes left empty for six months

Homes left empty for six months can be seized by councils and rented out as social housing under legislation coming into force next month.

An Empty Dwelling Management Order will allow local housing authorities to take control of privately-owned homes if they have been unoccupied and are not likely to be occupied in the "near future".

Source: The Telegraph (online), June 16, 2006

Spy in the sky' keeps watch on speeding drivers

Work on setting up the world's biggest "spy in the sky" [satellite] network for tracking cars will begin within weeks, with around 10,000 black boxes to be fitted in vehicles in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Source: Telegraph (online), April 3, 2006

Identity cards a 'present' to terrorists and criminals, spy heroine say

A national identity card scheme will be a "present" to terrorists, criminal gangs and foreign spies, one of Britain's most respected former intelligence agents has told ministers.

Source: The Scottsman, March 21, 2006

Atheist wins discrimination case

A teacher who lost out on promotion at a Roman Catholic school because he was an atheist has won his claim for religious discrimination.

Source: The Herald (online), March 9, 2006

How we move ever closer to becoming a totalitarian state

But in the dusty cradle of Committee A, a monster has been stirring and will, in due course, take flight to join the other measures in the government's attack on parliamentary democracy and the rights of the people. The 'reform' in the title allows ministers to make laws without the scrutiny of parliament and, in some cases, to delegate that power to unelected officials. In every word, dot and comma, it bears the imprint of New Labour's authoritarian paternity.

Source: Guardian Unlimited, March 15, 2006

Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

Source: The United Kingdom Parliament, January 11, 2006

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