Lowering our flag is a shameful surrender to Ulster’s gangsters

  • Under the 'Good Friday' agreement, flying the Union Flag is illegal in Northern Ireland on 348 days of the year

By Peter Hitchens




'No surrender': Protestors wave Union Flags in front of Belfast's City Hall earlier this week after the Union flag was removed from the building















Kate’s right to ditch the pro-drug propaganda

I am glad Kate Winslet has pulled out of the latest propaganda campaign against anti-drug laws, a documentary by Sir Richard Branson’s son, Sam, called Breaking The Taboo.

Breaking The Taboo: Kate Winslet briefly featured in a YouTube Clip promoting a new documentary on drugs


Far too many celebrities and politicians have been beguiled by the case for surrender. Sir Richard himself (who was barely coherent  in a drugs debate I had with him on Channel 4 News last Thursday)  is one of them.

Whose interests do they serve? I can only assume that they simply don’t understand what they are doing, or the dangers they are playing with.

A request to any prominent person asked  to back this campaign: arrange a visit to the locked wards of Britain’s mental hospitals, and ask the relatives of their occupants what they think caused the problem.

Tax with an extra shot of hypocrisy

Why are we such cringing serfs about tax? Our money belongs to us. It isn’t pocket money from the State, but our own.

If they want it, they should prove they know what to do with it.

What evidence is there that the Government, that incompetent waster, would spend money better than Starbucks? Who do you think would pay in the end, if Starbucks paid more tax  – why, the customers.

Even Leftist politicians are careful not to pay too much tax when (for instance) they inherit property. Leftie BBC journalists are fond of (legal) arrangements to keep their tax low.

Why should coffee shops be expected to behave differently?

So who’s euphoric about Egypt now?

It is strange how muted is the TV coverage of the descent of Egypt into Islamist despotism,  and the brutal behaviour of the new regime to protesters. Compare this with the euphoric, uncritical coverage of the original Cairo ‘Spring’.

As this doomed, overrated event repeatedly proves the pessimists right, can we learn nothing? No. The world’s media are still promoting an intervention in Syria, where we will replace bad with worse, at a cost of many lives.

Plugging this petition is proof of BBC bias

Last weekend, almost every BBC radio bulletin I listened to, over several days, mentioned a petition calling for full implementation of the Leveson Report into the press, and said that the number of signatures was rising.

Unless they can show that they have ever  done this with any other comparable petition,  I believe this is objective evidence of BBC bias on a matter of public controversy. Will the BBC Trust act?


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