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  • Why The BNP Should Be On Question Time

    Why The BNP Should Be On Question Time

    14th September 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    I can understand the opposition and anger against the proposal of any BNP member appearing on the BBC's Question Time programme. Politicians have already said that they will not appear beside a BNP panellist for it may be seen as validating the BNP as a normal political party or giving them a platform of respectability. Some commentators are aghast at the idea of a BNP member debating politics on the...

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  • Why David Cameron Can’t Sack His Spin Doctor, Andy Coulson?

    Why David Cameron Can’t Sack His Spin Doctor, Andy Coulson?

    13th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    It's no surprise to me that there are allegations of mass phone tapping undertaken by NEWS OF THE WORLD journalists and their sleuths.  Among the hundreds of celebrities caught up in the controversy are Gwyneth Paltrow, Sir Alex Ferguson, Elle McPherson, Jade Goody, John Prescott and Alan Shearer.  There are suggestions that there might be a rash of law-suits filed against the NEWS OF THE WORLD  following their hundreds of thousands of...

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  • SEIZURE OF PEACE SHIP

    SEIZURE OF PEACE SHIP

    3rd July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    While our attention has been diverted by the death of Michael Jackson there has been an incident in the Middle East that has been ignored by the world's media.

    On the 30th June, a Free Gaza ship, named the Spirit of Humanity, was carrying aid and toys for the besieged children of the Gaza strip.  On board this ship were film-maker, Ismahil Blagrove, Nobel Prize winner and co-founder of the Community...

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Alex Wheatle

Alex Wheatle

Alex Wheatle was born in 1963 to Jamaican parents living in London. He spent most of his childhood in a children's home which he left at 14 to live in a hostel in Brixton. At 18 he was involved in the Brixton uprising and went to prison for 3 months. On his release, he continued to perform as a DJ and MC under the name Yardman Irie, moving in the early '90s onto the performance poetry circuit as the Brixton Bard. His second novel, East Of Acre Lane, won the London New Writers Award (2000) The Dirty South is his sixth novel. He received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008.

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