Several districts in southwest Scotland expands boycott on Israeli products, bar stores from carrying English translations of Israeli books. 'A place that boycotts books isn't far from a place that burns them,' says Ambassador Ron Prosor
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Oh, man! You can get Juice cooties from books? As if paper cuts weren't bad enough.
If you look at American history, we have quite a few famous and influential people of Scotch or Scotch-Irish descent. I suspect all the smart ones have left by now.
Amid all the glad-handing and rictus grins that greeted Barack Obama everywhere he turned during his whistlestop visit to the British Isles, Boris Johnson will undoubtedly have made a particular impression upon him.
At the end of the state banquet in the presidents honour at Buckingham Palace, the Mayor of London took the opportunity to have a quick word. Could you please write me out a cheque for £5 million? Johnson asked him.
The request for the president to settle the congestion charge bill that his country has run up was made with charm. The president smiled broadly. If he was about to reach for his chequebook, however, the swift intervention of Louis Susman, Obamas ambassador to London and his former fund-raiser, put paid to that.
I think this is a matter where our position is already well known, he said to Johnson with a steely glare as Obama departed. Still, Johnson was delighted to have got his request in. Mission accomplished, he texted a colleague afterwards.
The American Embassy owes a total of £5,291,520 in unpaid congestion charge bills, which makes it the worst offender among the diplomatic missions in the capital.
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I expect the UN to pay its bills, we should pay ours. That's about the value of the embassy grounds and building, so let's call it a fair trade, give him the keys, and move on out.
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London's mayor is a petty baffoon. He makes our petty baffoon president look like a Welsh titan.
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London's mayor is a petty baffoon. He makes our petty baffoon president look like a Welsh titan.
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How are these assessed - are they capitation or is this a turnpike toll? (Checking wiki)
Yeah, Boris can go to hell. Embassies can be asked to pay for services, like parking fees or turnpike tolls, but this is a tax. One sovereign state can't assess taxes on another sovereign state, or the creatures of that state acting in an official capacity, as I understand it.
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A thug who carried out horrific acts of torture for Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe has been allowed to live in Britain to protect his human rights.
An immigration tribunal found Phillip Machemedze inflicted terrible injuries on political opponents of the vile Mugabe regime.
But despite ruling he was involved in savage acts of extreme violence including smashing a mans jaw with a pair of pliers immigration judges said he could not be deported.
They said the 46-year-old, who is HIV positive, could himself face torture if he was returned home, having turned his back on Mugabes Zanu PF regime.
Both he and his wife who was granted asylum can stay in Britain indefinitely.
Machemedze worked as a bodyguard to a senior Zanu PF minister, as part of Mugabes feared Central Intelligence Organisation.
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Britain has an unfortunate modern propensity to support thuggery in Africa.
eg: allowing British military to train the Kenyan police force while the UN has done something useful for once and unmasked them for terrible corruption leading all the way to the top.
Kenyan police take out and shoot anybody they don't like for whatever reason including petty jealousy over a girl at a bar. They do not respect the rule of law all the way up the chain to Police Commissioner.
But the British give them arms and training. disgraceful.
Here they just continue their not-so-fine tradition.
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by contrast the US quite admirably has banned corrupt Kenyan politicians from travelling to the US and also their families. Well done USA.
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