Professor James Holmes has a piece online today in which he calls himself a "reluctant convert" to the idea of stationing LCS's in Singapore and according to Holmes, perhaps in the Philippines.  Here's a key thought from Holmes:  "The LCS, then, may be the right ship for the Southeast Asian theater while drawing the venom from Chinese rhetoric. In some ways, an LCS squadron wou...

Downhills Primary School in Haringey is fast becoming a political battleground. Before Christmas, David Lammy, the local MP, a bunch of union leaders, left-wing opponents of education reform and Labour councilors wrote to The Guardian complaining about Michael Gove’s plans to convert primary school with poor academic records into academies. In the New Year, Michael Gove responded with a spee...

I was never a convert to the theory that by going into an alliance with the Conservatives, the Libdems had committed suicide as an independent political party. They had a plausible plan and get-out clause. But Osborne's budget on Tuesday killed the original plan and now there's a real chance the Libdems will be wiped out at the next election.

Omar Sharif slaps the face of a woman for not waiting her turn to take a picture with him. Apparently, she REALLY should have waited her turn! The face slap in the video below, as reported by TMZ, occurred on the red carpet of a film festival in Doha, Qatar. Sharif, a convert to the Muslim faith, caught heat in the Arab press 36 years ago for kissing Jewish actress Barbara Streisand in the movie "...

“In the absence of a gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good and thereafter decline to accept checks a...

Figures in a Government consultation paper on the funding of academies have revealed that Michael Gove’s policy of getting schools to convert to academies is expected to cost nearly £600 million more than planned over the two year period 2011 – 2013.   This confirms what Lib Dem activists have been saying for some time

A Christian psychotherapist who tried to convert a gay man to become heterosexual has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

FROM AFP Former prime minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth, a rights campaigner and Muslim convert, said on Wednesday that he should be tried for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq. Booth, the half-sister of Blair’s barrister wife Cherie, is in Malaysia for lectures organised by Viva Palestina, a British-based organisation associated with controversial politician

So, it seems that Lauren Booth, sister-in-law to Tony Blair, isn’t so much a slightly tiresome attention seeker as bang on trend. By converting to Islam, as she very publicly did last year, she’s put a face to the growing numbers of white Britons who have become Muslims, a group that last week was estimated at 100,000. Her scapegrace father, Tony Booth, unhelpfully suggested that becau...

The Pope's offer to Anglicans to convert to Catholicism risked inciting discrimination and even violence towards Catholics in Britain, according to leaked US diplomatic cables.