Have you heard the one about the blonde girl who gave birth to twins?  She searched the whole town looking for the other Dad.

OK, it’s not the best joke in the world.  It’s not even the best blond girl joke in the world (in English: Essex girl).  But is it the most offensive?  Or even just a teeny bit offensive?  Sufficient, say, for the purposes of a press complaint under the race hate code?

Well, Vigrid, a bunch of Norwegian guys with a certain political affiliation - Godwin’s Law notwithstanding - may be about to find out.

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Our cool Prime Minister, yeah, is looking like, y’ know, a bit of a dead man walking.  A drip-drip of killer Nu-Labour financial factoids is escaping into the public domain.  It can’t be stopped.

The latest development is that the people’s Prime Minister’s own fund-raiser - a man named Levy who was somehow elevated to the House of Lords - is distancing himself from, y’know, Tony’s slow-motion accident.  Since nobody outside Downing Street y’knew anything at all about the Party’s loan-funding, Tony is all on his lonesome.  Though, obviously, God still is right there.  Standing beside him.  What a pity He’s not interested in ermine.

The latest loan-shark to come out with a belly-up admission of involvement in Blair’s scandal is a property squillionaire named Andrew Rosenfeld.

He follows in the wake of the four frustrated Lords appointees: Rosenfeld’s business partner, Sir David Garrard, curry magnate Sir Gulam Noon (who’s had a bit of bother with Nu-Labour before), Dr Chai Patel and someone who might - actually might - be English, stockbroker Barry Townsley.

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A fine example of wysteria-hysteria from the Guardian’s social engineering

education correspondent Matthew Taylor appears on-line today.  See if you can beat my count of the wall-climbers’ inflations, distortions and outright untruths this flapdoodle peddles.

The rules are simple even for average folks of 100 IQ.  A palpable but minor inflation of the facts scores an inferior one point; an old-fashioned, uncomplicated distortion scores a downlow two; but a rip-roaring, black-hearted lie gets the full, Billy Bragg house.  Clue: there is more than one of the latter.

I scored a niggardly eighteen points.

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It was too much even for the journalist from the Melbourne Age:

A Vietnamese choir and African dancers were on hand as Victoria signed a sister-state agreement with Scotland yesterday. Confused?

Confused? Well, yes. Were the Vietnamese choir and African dancers supposed to represent Victoria or Scotland or something else altogether? And what if Tanzania and Vietnam were to sign such an agreement. Would they mark the occasion with a bagpipe rendition of Waltzing Matilda?

My thanks go to Geoff for pointing me in the direction of this Guardian article.

Britain secretly supplied Israel with plutonium during the 1960s despite a warning from military intelligence that it could help the Israelis to develop a nuclear bomb, it was disclosed last night. The deal, made during Harold Wilson’s Labour government, is revealed in classified documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and obtained by BBC2’s Newsnight programme.

The documents also show how Britain made hundreds of shipments to Israel of material which could have helped in its nuclear weapons programme, including compounds of uranium, lithium, beryllium and tritium, as well as heavy water.

Israel asked Britain in 1966 to supply 10mg of plutonium. Israel would have required almost 5kg of plutonium to build an atomic bomb, but British defence intelligence officials warned that 10mg had “significant military value” and could enable the Jewish state to carry out important experimental work to speed up its nuclear weapons programme.

Documents show that the decision to sell plutonium to Israel in 1966 was blocked by officials in both the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Office, who said: “It is HMG’s policy not to do anything which would assist Israel in the production of nuclear weapons.” But the deal was forced through by a Jewish civil servant, Michael Michaels, in Tony Benn’s Ministry of Technology, which was responsible for trade in nuclear material, according to Newsnight.

Peter Kelly, who was British defence intelligence’s expert on the Israeli nuclear weapons programme, knew Mr Michaels. He told Newsnight he believed Mr Michaels knew that Israel was trying to build an atomic bomb, but that he had dual loyalties to Britain and Israel.

Mr Benn told the programme that civil servants in his department kept the deals secret from him and his predecessor, Frank Cousins.

He had always suspected that civil servants were doing deals behind his back, but he never thought they would sell plutonium to Israel. He told Newsnight: “I’m not only surprised, I’m shocked. It never occurred to me they would authorise something so totally against the policy of the government.

“Michaels lied to me, I learned by bitter experience that the nuclear industry lied to me again and again.”

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The BNP website has a post on the truly macabre fate of fourteen-years old Charlene Downes.  You can be sure they would not do so if the mainstream media was doing its job.

Charlene was last seen by her family on 3rd November, 2003.  She had walked from her Blackpool home to the North Pier, and never returned.  For more than two years the police pursued their enquiries diligently, categorising the case as a murder investigation as well as a “missing persons”.  Some 3,000 men were DNA-tested during the course of the investigation, and an appeal was launched on the BBC’s “Crimewatch”.

A few days ago the breakthrough came and this brief report appeared - though originally in which paper, regional or national, I have not yet discovered.

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Neil Murphy, a government economic adviser, has described Newcastle as “hideously white” at a city conference.

Less than a year ago, Julia Gillard was interviewed by the Melbourne Sunday Age on the issue of feminism. What Julia has to say on the issue is important, as she is a leading member of the Labor Party and considered to be prime ministerial material.

Her views were clear and very much in line with feminist orthodoxy. Girls, she opined, should have choices, except that the choice to be a traditional stay-at-home mum was no longer an option. In her own words:

If one suggested to a girl in school today that her future life would consist of marriage, raising children and tending the family home, she would no doubt look at you as if you had just arrived from Mars ...

... while she may not know what course she wants to chart out in her life yet, she knows work will play a role in it – and an important one. Whether for the thrill of career, the social integration of work, the pay packet or for a mix of all of them, she’ll work. (The Sunday Age 8th May 2005)

So in May 2004 Gillard’s attitude was that women who wanted to be mothers would do so by mixing their careers with motherhood. To suggest anything else was out of this world.

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