Grooming – Muslim and Catholic
Child abuse knows no race or religion. In the United Kingdom: Detectives have charged 31 people with offences including rape and trafficking after an investigation into sexual offences against children …
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You can’t buy love – but you can buy lots of other things when you can’t buy love
Suing dating agencies – now there is an idea that I haven’t tried yet (partly because I’ve never used dating agencies): A mum who failed to find a partner after …
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We have an euphemism problem on our streets
Modern law enforcement seems to be increasingly as much about policing language as policing crime. Some cynics might say more of the former than the latter, or at least with …
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A brief guide to who you can and can’t criticise
Former editor of “The Spectator”, Mayor of London and Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has been at the centre of controversy for his remarks about burqas and how they remind him …
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In Norway’s war on drugs the drugs won
What to do about drugs is one of the issues I am genuinely agnostic about; I don’t like the idea of drugs and I think in most cases they are …
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Where is Europe’s G-spot?
Important questions asked, important questions answered: Lithuania’s capital is pressing ahead with controversial plans for a raunchy international advertising campaign that refers to the city as the “G-spot of Europe”, despite …
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They blow up so fast: Germany sounds alarm over jihadi kids
Suffer little children – because hate often begins at home, which makes it even more difficult to tackle: Children and adolescents growing up in families that follow radical Islamist teachings …
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We’ve got some pretty unpopular leaders
The current crop of Western leaders is failing to inspire the electorates much beyond their base. Is it just a coincidence, or do we live during particularly polarised and unsettled …
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New Roman library to open in Cologne
A nice archaeological discovery in the heart of the beautiful Cologne: The remains of the oldest public library in Germany, a building erected almost two millennia ago that may have housed …
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The right is the new punk, the German edition
i confess to guiltily liking heavy music from Germany, from Rammstein, which is just nasty, to In Extremo, which combines thumping guitars with bagpipes and draws from varied sources, including …
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