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Setanta Sports package - A subscribers warning

If you are taken in by the blandishments of setanta sports to subscribe to their sports package, beware.  If you ever want to cancel it they appear to have a system in place to make it as difficult as possible to cancel the Setanta subscription. I had to phone, as I was told email cancellation is not acceptable.
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UK immigration figures scaring public

The latest home office government figures show that nearly six hundred thousand immigrants entered the UK last year. This is leading to a position where, regrettably, conspiracy theorists comment that Enoch Powell’s apocalyptic speech decades ago about the dangers of uncontrolled immigration is coming to fruition.
Enoch Powell was not against immigration, many immigrants to the [...]

Northern Rock to cost you £40 billion

And now we know, as more details emerge of borrowing from troubled Northern Rock, that the guarantee of deposits in the bank is going to cost 3% of UK GDP.  Northern Rock experienced the first run on a UK bank in more than a century. With loans and debts which are coming up for repayment soon, [...]

Alex Salmond conspiracy to take Scotland out of UK

SNP leader Alex Salmond used his speech at the SNP conference yesterday to once again, in the words of firebrand George Galloway, create a partition between England and Scotland. Since the discovery of North Sea oil, the SNP have been constantly trying to push secession from the UK, purely from the point of greed, which [...]

UK Government to follow US lead on Iran

UK premier Gordon Brown has announced that the UK will boldly follow in the footsteps of the US when it comes to any forthcoming war with Iran. When questioned about whether the UK will support US military action against Iran, Gordon refused to rule any option out, instead of, as previously laid out by Justice [...]

Craig Venter - DNA evil

No wonder the Chinese don’t give a nickel for intellectual property rights or copyright laws when you have scientists like Craig Venter trying to claim ownership of DNA patents. Critics on Newsnight rightly labelled Venter as a ‘land grabber’, involved in a conspiracy to deny others the possibility of using human DNA technologies.
Those who suspect viruses like [...]