Criminalisation of soliciting is also racist. It’s frequently used, for example, to arrest migrant sex workers/prostitutes and deport them. Victims of trafficking deserve our protection; they should have the legal right to choose to live in the UK for as long as they want, and they should not face deportation back to countries where they [...]

This article in the Evening Standard by Andrew Neather, a former advisor to the UK Government, seems like it should be a big story. Here are some excerpts:
It didn’t just happen: the deliberate policy of ministers from late 2000 until at least February last year, when the Government introduced a points-based system, was to open [...]

This is why the Democrat Party in the US is in a hurry to enact transformative legislation:

National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted August 5-8, 2009
By Rasmussen Reports
I’m going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please let me know which political party you trust more to handle that issue. [...]

Fraser Nelson looks at new numbers from the Office of National Statistics and comes up with the following startling fact:
there are fewer British-born workers in the first quarter of 2009 than Q1 of 1997.
I think this just refers to workers in the private sector, but it’s still pretty remarkable.

Leave it up to Triumph International to develop another crazy publicity bra! We’ve seen the solar powered bra and the shopping bag bra, and now there’s a new “marriage hunting” bra. Called the Konkatsu Bra, it is meant to bring attention to Japan’s struggle to keep the birthrate up. The LCD panel displays the amount [...]