tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66578788128840819882024-03-06T20:03:14.332+00:00Musings of a DurotriganDurotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comBlogger742125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-83348228733296909752015-03-31T18:38:00.000+01:002016-06-16T10:19:19.266+01:00The Last Post
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<![endif]-->Well readers (yes, I know that there are at least two of
you, so I’m feeling justified in employing the plural), the time has come to
call it a day with respect to this blog, and Durotrigan will henceforth be
posting no more. For the occasional stray detractor who happens upon this news,
this will doubtless be a cause for some satisfaction, whereas for Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-23207212499857228032015-03-02T08:20:00.000+00:002015-03-02T08:20:52.899+00:00UKIP if you want to, but don’t get caught napping
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Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-27997130266908493882015-02-25T23:08:00.001+00:002016-06-16T10:03:28.401+01:0070% of French prison population is Muslim
So Newsnight stated this evening. A remarkable figure, certainly, but a surprising one? Islam and France are not compatible, insofar as a vanishingly small percentage of Muslims entertain the concept of secularism. No Muslim who rejects secularism is anything other than an existential threat to France, and to the French way of life.
Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-60685387729833460972015-02-24T21:33:00.000+00:002015-02-24T21:34:38.926+00:00Channel 4’s Immigration Celebration
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<![endif]-->Channel 4 is seemingly going into overdrive in the run-up to
the election, churning out a greater than usual stream of pro-mass immigration
propaganda. Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-37131471561364485112015-02-23T21:39:00.001+00:002016-06-16T10:17:20.773+01:00Review: ‘Children of the Great Migration’, Panorama, BBC1
This
evening, the BBC decided to launch an attempt to tug at the heartstrings and to
win yet more support for unrestricted mass immigration into the EU in general,
and the UK in particular. Its advance publicity for the programme read:
They cross six thousand miles of desert and sea to reach Europe, children travelling alone, on the world's most dangerous migration route. Some of them are as Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-59411331118352474392015-02-23T07:36:00.000+00:002016-06-16T10:21:19.347+01:00UKIP Clowns: 'Meet the Ukippers'
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<![endif]-->Last weekend Channel 4 launched its anti-UKIP pre-election
campaign with its docudrama ‘UKIP: The First 100 Days’, and yesterday evening
the BBC waded in with its own effort in the form of a fly-on-the-wall
documentary about local UKIP party members in Thanet South, where Nigel Farage
is mounting his bid for a Westminster seat in May. As was to be expected,Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-43059416114720754762015-02-23T07:05:00.002+00:002015-02-23T07:37:02.217+00:00Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind: Pounds Sterling, or Yuan?
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<![endif]-->Oh dear. Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind have both been caught out in a sting operation staged by the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4’s
Dispatches. The former Foreign Secretaries revealed that they were willing to
sell their services to a fictitious Chinese company, with Straw providing the
bargain-basement option, only asking for £5,000 – “So normally, if I’mDurotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-24892452565645837982015-02-21T15:22:00.000+00:002016-06-16T10:05:04.808+01:00Who will govern after 7 May 2015? Readers' opinions
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<![endif]-->This year’s General Election promises to be the most
unpredictable in living memory. For months, as assiduously documented by UK Polling Report, opinion polls have shown a narrow gap between the two leading
parties – Labour and Conservative – with the former generally maintaining a
narrow lead over the latter. However, this promises to be no typical GeneralDurotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-56837611652598395572015-02-18T17:48:00.000+00:002015-02-21T15:39:02.813+00:00Richard Dawkins interviewed by Evan Davis
Evan Davis is the sort of man that Islamists believe should be thrown to his death from the top of a tall building. This is not some lurid exaggeration, but a sad statement of fact, but for Davis, as for so many others at the BBC, the concept of the existence of clear, incontrovertible facts is viewed as something unsettling, rather than being something that should be acknowledged. Not so for Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-56804654394964252812015-02-17T18:09:00.000+00:002016-06-16T10:06:11.955+01:00Dire: 'UKIP: The First 100 Days'
Should national broadcasters be permitted to run
'docudramas' with the intent of interfering in the political process during the
run-up to a General Election?
Last night's Channel 4 offering, 'UKIP: The First 100 Days',
was as predictable and dull as it was woodenly acted and blatantly partisan.
How could a review conclude anything else? (Admittedly, I've not read the
Guardian review, so it Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-48357895121411716232015-02-10T21:51:00.002+00:002016-06-16T10:07:20.833+01:00Review: ‘Digging for Britain’, Episode 2, BBC4
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<![endif]-->This evening’s ‘Digging for Britain’, the second in the series, moved location from Norfolk to the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester, to
focus upon some of the more significant archaeological discoveries made in the West
Country during 2014. One theme which ran through much of the programme was the
question as to what extent the population of the region Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-20732703238322412922015-02-09T19:42:00.001+00:002016-06-16T10:10:06.863+01:00SNP: ‘The more seats we have here, the more powers we’ll have in Scotland.’
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<![endif]-->Thus runs the slogan on the first welcome image (reproduced
below) displayed on the SNP’s website landing page. However, for the English
this statement, given projections regarding the possible composition of the next
House of Commons, would be better displayed next to the SNP’s peculiar logo,
which looks for all the world like a noose.
Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-76732987699130703812015-02-08T08:30:00.000+00:002015-02-08T10:28:13.218+00:00Readers’ General Election Poll Results
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Feeling
tempted to vote Green? Then think again. Yesterday, the Green Party Leader
Natalie Bennett sought to grab the headlines by announcing that the Greens wish
to increase spending on social housing from £1.5 billion to £6 billion per annum
by 2017, building an additional 500,000 rented ‘homes’ by this year. ‘Homes’?
What form would these ‘homes’ take? Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-43204992922534973422015-02-05T13:47:00.000+00:002015-02-05T13:47:27.484+00:00Suzanne Evans pulls out of Question Time
This is disappointing news, that caused George Galloway to issue a tweet stating 'UKIP have pulled out of tonight's Question Time. Cowards.' Hardly fair, given that Evans is ill. Galloway was therefore forced to eat his words.
Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-3851863234560979252015-02-05T07:45:00.000+00:002016-06-16T10:15:36.035+01:00Question Time: George Galloway versus Jonathan Freedland?
Tonight’s Question Time will be broadcast from Finchley, and
judging from the panel it seems that it has been set up to engineer a
confrontation between George Galloway and “Liberal Zionist” and Guardian
journalist, Jonathan Freedland. Presumably, Tower Hamlets would have been
Galloway’s preferred London location, taking into account his
ethno-confessional predilections, but instead he finds Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-12146926278038122342015-02-03T21:43:00.001+00:002016-06-16T10:18:29.565+01:00Review: Digging For Britain, BBC4
Alice Roberts and Matt Williams co-hosted the latest instalment
in BBC4’s ‘Digging for Britain’ series, providing viewers with the first of
four regional updates relating to significant British archaeological finds made
during 2014. Tonight’s episode focused upon East Anglia and the Southeast,
taking in a wide variety of sites spanning from the Bronze Age to the Civil
War. Sitting in the Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-35692739098833196322015-02-03T19:18:00.000+00:002016-06-16T10:20:31.979+01:00James Herriot turns in his grave
It’s a far cry from the cosy world of James Herriot with
whom Thirsk has been associated for decades, for this is no tale of vets trying
to alleviate animal suffering, but of sadistic practices in a North Yorkshire halal abattoir. Not only are animals slaughtered legally on the premises of Bowood
Lamb, employing halal methods which inflict unnecessary and avoidable suffering,
but a number of Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-17766589931774711352015-01-31T11:15:00.000+00:002015-02-04T22:11:32.963+00:00UKIP's Call: Siren, or Clarion?
UKIP appear to have two solid policy objectives: to leave the EU, and to introduce a points-based immigration system. All well and good, but beyond that, what do we really know? Granted, these two issues are very important, and the three mainstream parties - along with the Greens, the SNP and Plaid Cymru - all possess the same policies regarding these themes:
they are pro-EU and pro-mass Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-24167706040972330552015-01-30T22:28:00.000+00:002015-01-30T22:30:31.250+00:00Interactive General Election Opinion Poll
Out of curiosity, I have decided to poll blog readers
regarding their political preferences in the forthcoming May General Election.
This poll is, of course, open to those who have the right to vote in the UK. Unfortunately,
I have no means of verifying the citizenship of participants, so must rely upon
the honesty of my readers in submitting their responses. If you should happen
to tick the ‘Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-63291424779004824652015-01-30T08:06:00.000+00:002016-06-16T10:22:23.036+01:00Halal Slaughter: Cutting England’s Throat
This morning, John Humphrys announced on Radio 4’s Today
Programme that the number of sheep and goats killed using either halal or
kosher methods without pre-stunning, reached the staggering figure of 2.4
million in the past year. This represented a 60% jump in the number killed in
this manner compared to the previous year. Why has there been such a surge?
Muslim agitation. Not ‘extremist’ Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-84807820677379445292015-01-29T10:06:00.000+00:002016-06-16T10:24:48.149+01:00Winter 2014-2015 Forecast: Here we go again!
It is January, normally the coldest month of the
meteorological winter in the UK. Outside, in many parts, today has witnessed
snow, sleet and blustery conditions; in short, wintry weather. The Thames has
not frozen over; the country is not blanketed in snow; snowdrifts have not
sundered village from village, and trains have not stopped running because of
‘the wrong kind of snow’. Yesterday, Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-80428036962374033242015-01-26T22:42:00.001+00:002016-06-16T10:26:32.913+01:00Review: David Starkey’s ‘Magna Carta’, BBC2
Having most recently appeared on our screens in characteristically forthright style on Question Time in an entertaining
head-to-head with Mehdi ‘Kuffar’ Hasan (not to mention the rest of the panel),
David Starkey returned to BBC2 this evening in his professional guise as a
popular historian, commemorating the 800th anniversary of the Magna
Carta. Indeed, this year also marks two other Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-16687050421448430882015-01-26T20:56:00.000+00:002016-06-16T10:26:49.655+01:00Review: 'The Great Car Con', Channel 4 Dispatches
Channel 4’s
Dispatches has produced much penetrating investigative journalism over the
years, and this evening’s episode confirmed what I have suspected for many
years: diesel is neither good for human health nor the environment, but
actually bad for both. A lungful of diesel is deeply unpleasant, as any regular
cyclist or runner will attest, so it came as no surprise to learn that the
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