When it comes to hiring staff, there are plenty of legal pitfalls employers need to watch out for these days.
So recruitment agency boss Nicole Mamo was especially careful to ensure her advert for hospital workers did not offend on grounds of race, age or sexual orientation.
However, she hadn’t reckoned on discriminating against a wholly different section of the community – the completely useless.
When she ran the ad past a job centre, she was told she couldn’t ask for ‘reliable’ and ‘hard-working’ applicants because it could be offensive to unreliable people.
Mrs Mamo, a divorced mother of two, added: ‘I had to battle to have “must speak English”, which they also said was discriminatory.
You never hear about ridiculous PC tyranny like this in any of the new democracies in Eastern Europe, nor in some third-world hell hole like Russia or Yemen. No, it’s always a declining Western country that, by habit, calls itself a democracy. Usually Britain.
They must have an unlimited supply of taxpayer money if they think this is a legitimate way to spend it. They also have videos on how to read a map (map reading courses are available from the council) and how to use a mobile phone (”I have my phone firmly in my right hand and then select the digit of choice – in my case, the left index finger. Place your finger on the button…”).
The British authorities obviously see themselves as caring parents, and their subjects as little children who must be guided by the hand because they can’t be trusted to take care of themselves. People who can take care of themselves don’t make good subjects.
A British WWII soldier repeatedly smuggled himself into Auschwitz to see what was going on there so he could tell the truth to others. During one of his trips, he saved a Jewish prisoner’s life, but he didn’t know it until just now. Videos inside.
So now Sen. Chuck Schumer is demanding that the British Government seek an immediate return of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi from Lybia to a Scottish jail. Good luck with that.
[Head of the Environment Agency] Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
It would involve people being issued with a unique number which they would hand over when purchasing products that contribute to their carbon footprint, such as fuel, airline tickets and electricity.
Like with a bank account, a statement would be sent out each month to help people keep track of what they are using.
If their “carbon account” hits zero, they would have to pay to get more credits.
Those who are frugal with their carbon usage will be able to sell their unused credits and make a profit.
Lord Smith will call for the scheme to be part of a “Green New Deal” to be introduced within 20 years when he addresses the agency’s annual conference on Monday.
But not to worry – it will only affect those evil rich people:
An Environment Agency spokesman … said: “A lot of people who cycle will get money back. It will probably only be bankers and those with extravagant lifestyles who would lose out.”
If you still can’t see that left-wing governments push this carbon hysteria as a way to redistribute wealth from those who create it to those who form these governments’ voter base, then you probably believe Al Gore is in the lucrative Gaia business for something other than the cash, the Nobels and the Oscars.
British doctors have invented an injection that stops snoring in around 70% of those who suffer from it, and it’s enough to have it done three times a year.
Huge increases in immigration over the past decade were a deliberate attempt to engineer a more multicultural Britain, a former Government adviser said yesterday.
Andrew Neather, a speechwriter who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a plan to ‘open up the UK to mass migration’.
As well as bringing in hundreds of thousands to plug labour market gaps, there was also a ‘driving political purpose’ behind immigration policy, he claimed.
Ministers hoped to change the country radically and ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’. But Mr Neather said senior Labour figures were reluctant to discuss the policy, fearing it would alienate its ‘core working-class vote’.
For the Left in any country, the ends always justify the means. And for their ends to be achieved, the country always needs to be changed radically – the more radically, the better. Just look at what’s happening in America now.
They decided a physical pat-down search was too intrusive, so instead they came up with a full-body scan that produces an image of the passenger’s naked body. It’s hilarious how excited this woman is about their solution.
While other two-year-olds are discovering the joy of playgrounds, Oscar Wrigley would rather be learning about wildlife or the history of Ancient Rome.
He has recently taken to conducting classical music as he listens in the back of the car and identifies the different instruments.
So his parents were not surprised when, at the ripe old age of two years, five months and 11 days, he became the youngest boy in Britain to be accepted by Mensa.
With an IQ of at least 160, he has the same score as the likes of Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
‘Oscar was recently telling my wife about the reproductive cycle of penguins,’ said his father Joe, 29, an IT specialist from Reading in Berkshire.
It is not clear from the story how many – if any – of the ex-soldiers behind bars are non-combat veterans:
The Government was under fire for failing to support British troops returning from war today after figures revealed nearly one in 10 prisoners is an Armed Forces veteran.
Shocking research by the probation officers’ union Napo shows some 8,500 former soldiers are currently in prison in England and Wales.
Another 12,000 have criminal convictions and are on the books of the Probation Service.
This means there are more than twice as many veterans in jail, on probation or on parole in the UK than the number of troops currently serving in Afghanistan.
Veterans in Scotland and Northern Ireland are not included, meaning the true figure is likely to be much higher. . . .
Domestic violence was by far the most likely conviction for a veteran, accounting for one in three cases. Other violent crimes accounted for around one in five convictions.
One in four said they had post-traumatic stress disorder, but many went undiagnosed. Others cited depression and behavioural problems.
The group who took part included veterans from the conflicts in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although the sample was small, the figures give the best indication yet about the sheer scale of the struggle faced by ex-soldiers when they come home.
I have a high respect for British troops, who are fighting bravely in Afghanistan despite the scarce and primitive equipment their government grudgingly provides them with, but it could be that in Britain, the Armed Forces attract people who are more likely to have behavioural problems anyway. One in ten is a staggering proportion.
Parents are being threatened with having their children taken into care after questioning doctors’ diagnoses or objecting to their medical care.
John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP, who campaigns to stop injustices in the family court, said: “Very often care proceedings are used as retaliation by local authorities against ‘uppity’ people who question the system.”
Cases are emerging across the UK:
The mother of a 13-year-old girl who became partly paralysed after being given a cervical cancer vaccination says social workers have told her the child may be removed if she (the mother) continues to link her condition with the vaccination.
A couple had all six of their children removed from their care after they disputed the necessity of an invasive medical test on their eldest daughter. Doctors, who suspected she might have had a blood disease, called for social services to obtain an emergency protection order, although it was subsequently confirmed that she was not suffering from the condition. The parents were still considered unstable, and all their children were taken from them.
A single mother whose teenage son is terminally ill and confined to a wheelchair has been told he is to become the subject of a care order after she complained that her local authority’s failure to provide bathroom facilities for him has left her struggling to maintain sanitary standards.
Maybe those British parents just need to be good subjects and stop questioning the government when it takes away their children. Government knows best, don’t they know?
Paul Lewis survived a free fall from 10,000 feet after his parachute failed to open properly, and now you can see a video of his little adventure recorded by his helmet camera.
What’s amazing in this story is how many Brits in the comments to the linked article say people like Lewis should not be treated by the country’s “free” healthcare system because their injuries result from unnecessary high-risk activites, and that they should be required to get private insurance before the government allows them to take part in skydiving or similar sports. Interestingly, there’s no discussion of refunding such people the healthcare taxes they’ve paid over the years.
Reality: Super-powerful, super-expensive 21st-century steam-turbine car that looks like a jet fighter smashes the record set by a steam-engine American car in 1906 by a whopping 11 mph by doing a jaw-dropping 139.843 mph.
They would’ve done better if they had simply taken the 1906 Stanley Steamer and covered the wheels to cut the drag a bit.
Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.
The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets – even a caravan – went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.
Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.
Latest figures show that over the past two years there were at least:
63 births in ambulances and 608 in transit to hospitals;
117 births in A&E departments, four in minor injury units and two in medical assessment areas;
115 births on other hospital wards and 36 in other unspecified areas including corridors;
399 in parts of maternity units other than labour beds, including postnatal and antenatal wards and reception areas.
Additionally, overstretched maternity units shut their doors to any more women in labour on 553 occasions last year.
Babies were born in offices, lifts, toilets and a caravan, according to the Freedom of Information data for 2007 and 2008 from 117 out of 147 trusts which provide maternity services.
One woman gave birth in a lift while being transferred to a labour ward from A&E while another gave birth in a corridor, said East Cheshire NHS Trust.
Others said women had to give birth on the wards – rather than in their own maternity room – because the delivery suites were full.
Tory health spokesman Andrew Lansley, who obtained the figures, said Labour had cut maternity beds by 2,340, or 22 per cent, since 1997. At the same time birth rates have been rising sharply – up 20 per cent in some areas.
This is happening despite the tripling of NHS funding since 2007.
Scientists have previously focused on how to prevent tumours from forming, but the new research has found key molecules called microRNAs which the cancer manipulates to spread around the body.
Breast cancer cells ’switch off’ these molecules, allowing the cancer to spread unchecked to other parts of the body.
This spread is responsible for 90 per cent of deaths from breast cancer and the team which made the breakthrough is working on a drug to stop this fatal process.
