BABY P MARCH DRAWS THOUSANDSIt didn't reveal any such thing. It simply showed that the Diana Syndrome is alive and well and still looking for an outlet.
Large demonstrations, despite the severe weather, in several large cities, reveal the depth of anger and compassion over the failures of social services to protect vulnerable children.
Thousands have taken to the streets in a grassroots campaign, calling for an overhaul of local authorities' children's services, that's been growing since the investigation into the death of Baby P in the London borough of Haringey.
William Hague:
"Trying to force the Lisbon Treaty down the Irish people’s throats again is not only a dangerous distraction from that agenda, it is profoundly undemocratic. It is no wonder that the EU is seen as increasingly unaccountable and out of touch if it won’t listen to what people are actually saying. Gordon Brown goes to this summit without any democratic mandate on the Lisbon Treaty. If our unelected Prime Minister insists on forcing the Irish people to vote twice, the case for letting the British people vote once will be morally unanswerable.”
A bipartisan Senate report released today says that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials are directly responsible for abuses of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and charges that decisions by those officials led to serious offenses against prisoners in Iraq and elsewhere.
The Senate Armed Services Committee report accuses Rumsfeld and his deputies of being the principal architects of the plan to use harsh interrogation techniques on captured fighters and terrorism suspects, rejecting the Bush administration's contention that the policies originated lower down the command chain.
Via David BadashI wish you would use your platform to stand for something, rather than against so many things. I wish you would stop your incendiary attacks against a group of people you obviously know little about, but who, for some very strange reason, you seem obsessed with, and frightened by.
And I wish, Dear Michelle Malkin, you would just leave us alone. Because until you do, until you stop your ugly, hateful, uninformed, senseless attacks on the gay community, I promise you, we’ll be alert and vigilant and call you on every one of your ugly lies. We’re here, Michelle, and we’re watching your words.
In a televised speech to the nation, Robert Mugabe said that cholera no longer existed in the country.
"I am happy to say our doctors have been assisted by others and WHO (the World Health Organisation)... so now that there is no cholera," he said.
If there’s one lesson to be learned from the Shannon Matthews affair, it’s that there are no lessons to be learned.Via Jonathan Watson
Put it this way. Human nature being as it is, some welfare mums are criminals, some are heroes struggling under terrible circumstances, and many are just ordinary folk. There’s a distribution of qualities.
But we can infer nothing at all about the shape of any distribution, or its average or standard deviation, from just seeing one extreme data-point.
So, how come so many people think they can “learn lessons”?
Cognitive biases, that’s how.
Australian police seized 500,000 images and 15,000 videos showing the abuse of children as young as 12 months old.
The arrests were made in a series of raids around the country, following a one-year investigation into an online image sharing network.
"The videos seized as part of this operation have to be among the worst we have seen," said Australian Federal Police officer Andrew Colvin.
"Some depicted sexual abuse of children lasting more than two hours."
Two police officers attempt to stop Photojournalist Marc Vallée reporting on a blockade of the Greek Embassy by Greek and British anarchists in London, England on Monday 8th December 2008.
A cadre of Chinese officials who blew through around $94,000 of the Glorious Taxpayers' money on a recent junket to the United States are in hot water after a bag of recepits left on a Shanghai subway found its way onto the Internet.
In addition to traveling to far more cities than the budget allowed, the junket stayed at a $700-a-night hotel in Las Vegas and, apparently, took in a "homosexual show"...in San Francsico.
Women will not be able to buy the Pill off the shelf like paracetamol but will have to go through a face to face consultation with a suitably qualified pharmacist before being issued with the hormonal contraceptives.
Currently women have a prescription written by a GP or family planning doctor who takes blood pressure and a medical history and then a pharmacist dispenses the tablets.
A bipartisan Senate report released today says that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials are directly responsible for abuses of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and charges that decisions by those officials led to serious offenses against prisoners in Iraq and elsewhere.
I wish you would use your platform to stand for something, rather than against so many things. I wish you would stop your incendiary attacks against a group of people you obviously know little about, but who, for some very strange reason, you seem obsessed with, and frightened by. 
In a televised speech to the nation, Robert Mugabe said that cholera no longer existed in the country. 
Two police officers attempt to stop Photojournalist Marc Vallée reporting on a blockade of the Greek Embassy by Greek and British anarchists in London, England on Monday 8th December 2008.