According to that last bastion of objective reporting, the Sun, school children are being punished for wearing clothes with England flags on them or even for being dropped off at school in cars with England flags on them.
Normally I’d take anything the Sun says with a pinch sack of salt but in this case it [...]
Professor John Curtice of the University of Strathclyde has helped produced a very detailed report published on Monday 25th February with the Think Tank “Institute for Public Policy” regarding the problems of post devolution. It Does make interesting reading.
Using the usual non-descript questions written by the British Social Attitudes Surveys 1999 to 2006 as follows
England [...]
CEP Buckinghamshire suggests that we should all become temporarily Scottish.
A very concise and entertaining proposal, well worth a read.
The St Georges Day Events website seems to have gone by the wayside lately - there don’t appear to be any 2008 events listed.
So, if anyone knows of any St Georges Day Events for 2008, please post details in the comments and we’ll consolidate them into a St Georges Day 2008 page if there are [...]
England had a blistering start with 10 points on the board in the first 13 minutes, 5 of which came from what will probably be the try of the tournament by Paul Sachi.
Jonny Wilkinson’s foot was perfect as usual.
England have played an excellent first half and the statistics don’t match the performance. France have [...]
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So far it contains 3 buttons for you to link to the CEP and 5 wallpapers for your desktop.
Instructions are on the bottom of the wallpapers page for you to submit your own creations.
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The Campaign for an English Parliament gives evidence to the Justice Committee
Yesterday Mike Knowles, head of the Media Unit of the Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP) gave oral evidence to the Justice Committee, a select committee of the UK Government’s Justice Department. The session title was Devolution: a decade on, which focussed on “The [...]
They did the big hard sell on the MMR vaccination on BBC One’s The One Show last night [Friday 22 Feb]. They hammered on about uptake rates being still well short of the World Health Organisation target that 95% of children should receive at least one dose of a mumps and measles vaccination (not necessarily [...]
Welcome to the inaugural News from the Trenches Branches.
Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire branches joined the fold this week bringing the total number of branch blogs up to 9.
Starting with Buckinghamshire, Terry Heath comments that Gordon Brown hasn’t managed to turn the English language into “regionish” or “this countryish” yet. Let’s hope one of the Britishness [...]
On Monday 4th of Feb I wrote to the Department for Children, Schools and Families regarding David Blunkett’s warning that there are not enough teachers trained to give Gordon Brown’s “Britishness” lessons.
Dear Sir/Madam,I see that David Blunkett has warned that there are not enough teachers trained to deliver Britishness lessons to English school children.
A lack [...]
