WHITE POWDERY STUFF BEATS BRITAIN

 
During the last week of January, the media extensively covered the newly built British Destroyer HMS Daring as it docked in at Portsmouth, its home port. Set to join active service later this year, the Royal Navy’s Type 45 vessel was hailed as the most advanced battleship ever and British Glory was flying at high [...]

ENGLISH HEROES, TABLOIDS AND AMIR KHAN

 
It is a wet and dismal Sunday morning and the newspaper itself came in a bit damp and limp. On an inside page, there is a tightly framed snap of English boxing hero Amir Khan sprawled out on the canvas. An unknown black Colombian boxer stands over him, gloved fists raised in triumph.
 
For the British [...]

KNIFE CRIMES AND YOUTH IN UK

 

            London has lost about two dozen lives to knife crimes since the beginning of this year. The victims were all in their teens or early twenties. Though the better newspapers do not mention it in first reports, many of these youngsters belonged to local gangs and had their pictures and exploits posted on youtube [...]