Alternative music is a genre of songs and musical compositions (see Historical overview) set apart from the usual, market-oriented products. Instead of being created just for fun or for commercial purposes, the objectives of this rich musical heritage are to express, interpret and share the ideological evolution, the political opposition, the moral and social values, [...]

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Project Gutenberg is the brainchild of Michael Hart, who in 1971 decided that it would be a really good idea if lots of famous and important texts were freely available to everyone in the world. Since then, he has been joined by hundreds of volunteers who share his vision.
Now, more than thirty years later, [...]

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Spread the word: the National Union of Teachers are hypocritical, racist NUTs!
“Did you know that the NUT has a special section devoted ONLY to ‘black’ teachers?”
If you visit the NUT website (http://www.nut.org.uk/story.php?id=3026) you will be able to read all about the NUT’s “Blacks Only” division and of the special “Black Teacher’s Conference” they [...]

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“It’s no surprise to us. Every single member of the Young BNP Supporters’ Club can give you first-hand experience of bigotry and far-left extremism on the part of several teachers. Some of them are just following the National Curriculum, others are just Communist or pro-Islamic cranks. Perhaps we should just call them ‘NUTS’.”
This was the [...]

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THE battle over unauthorised parking in New York took a dramatic turn yesterday, after it emerged a traffic warden issued a ticket to a man allegedly suffering a heart attack in his car.
Relatives of the man, who has since died, have now issued a £55 million lawsuit against the city authorities, claiming the parking [...]

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Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast:
Nicole Kidman …. Satine
Ewan McGregor …. Christian
Et al
Moulin Rouge is a postmodern pastiche of over-the-top theatricality, which you will love or hate accordingly. Theoretically set in 1899, it loots the repertoire of twentieth-century pop song not only for its music but even for much of its dialogue. Other postmodern elements include the [...]

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Britain is the laughing stock across the world and that is something we all have to live with, unless we really want to improve our international image.
Just 60 years ago, British forces were lions on the global stage; we had military and civil forces to be reckoned with. Decades of politically correct teaching, decades of [...]

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• Five men arrested in raids around southeast England charged with terrorism• Anti-terrorist operation seized half-ton of substance used to make explosives
Key quote”You unlawfully and maliciously conspired with others to cause, by an explosive substance, an explosion of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious damage to property” - charge put to [...]

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MEL GIBSON’S film The Passion of the Christ may have spelled out the religious significance of Easter but for record numbers of Scots it is increasingly becoming a time for something different: the first sunshine break of the year.
More than a quarter of a million travellers were expected to pass through Scotland’s airports over [...]

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The parish-pump issue of whether the people of Derby can have a statue replaced is growing into a national controversy.
Once more the reason for this escalation of what should be a local matter is the insistence of a British city council enforcing a politically correct decision in defiance of what the voters actually want.
Offensive to [...]

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FOLLOWING the disappearance of the female from England’s sole pair of golden eagles, hopes that help might come from Scotland’s burgeoning population are slim.
Warnings that the species could die out in England were expressed by wardens at Haweswater, in the Lake District, yesterday. The female has not been seen for several weeks and conservationists [...]

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Celtic has always been more than a football club. Part of that extra quality of Celtic has been the social dimension linked to the reasons Brother Walfrid founded Celtic back in the 1880s.
Celtic Football Club has changed a great deal in recent years. The ownership of the Club has been transformed from few to [...]

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Key points
• Justice minister to streamline divorce and enhance family rights• Consultation process on changes complete by end of June• Catholic Church in Scotland raises concerns over threat to marriage
Key quote”Some will see any change to the law in this area as a defeat for traditional values. They should not, for the reforms [...]

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White folk have being deliberately excluded from applying for a post as curator of a Bristol art gallery. An advertisment for the job at the Arnolfini Gallery states
“The post is only open to African, Asian and Caribbean curators based in England. Asian, in this context, is taken to cover the continent of Asia from [...]

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The news released yesterday sadly was not an April Fools’ story. It is fact that one of Britain’s most liberal multi-cultural fanatics takes over the running of the BBC. This has been confirmed today following the formal approval of Her Majesty the Queen.
Yesterday the Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell appointed Michael Grade to the top position [...]

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Lee Barnes warns that Beverley Hughes was just one of many of the guilty parties in the immigration and visa fiasco.
With all the grace and dignity of a panto dame slipping on a banana skin, Beverley Hughes MP, the Blair babe, in charge of the Immigration Fiasco that we the British public are paying for, [...]

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Key Points• 5 members of terrorist cell in Madrid blow themselves up to avoid capture• Explosive devices discovered similar to those used in the Madrid bombings• Investigations centred on ‘Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group’ linked to al Qaeda
Key quote: “The core of the group that carried out the attacks is either arrested or dead in [...]

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ONE of al-Qaeda’s top officials has ordered the killing of Muslim leaders if they co-operate with intelligence services and the police to thwart terrorist attacks.
In a message to the followers of Osama bin Laden around the world, Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, the new leader of the terror network in Saudi Arabia, listed Muslim clerics “who [...]

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Key points• Tony Blair to take charge of immigration ahead of emergency summit• Decision comes after immigration minister Beverley Hughes quit• Opposition claims government policies play into hands of the BNP
Story in full: TONY Blair will today tell senior ministers they have 24 hours to rescue the reputation of Britain’s immigration controls ahead of [...]

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AFTER decades of population decline, some parts of the Highlands and Islands are now increasing their numbers.
A new report, published today, shows why people have moved to the area and has challenged some commonly-held perceptions. The results will now be used in efforts to help develop other more vulnerable and fragile areas.
The spectacular [...]

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