One of the gay men who sued the Christian B&B owners in
Cornwall, who have now been forced to sell up, said in an interview “to some
extent, they brought it on themselves.” There have been several outraged
responses to this, though they are not so much directed at the actual content
of the comment, but rather at its lack of condemnation of the intolerance,
vindictiveness and criminality directed at the B &B owners.
The Romanian ambassador to the UK has complained that
Romanian doctors in the UK are suffering racist comments, and blamed it on
UKIP rhetoric about Romanian criminals. Nigel Farage of UKIP responded that “there are 80,000
Romanians in the UK that we know of, and yet there have been 27,500 arrests in
the last 5 years in London alone, so there is clearly an issue.”
The Archbishop of Canterbury commented on the suicide
bombings that killed 81 Christians in Pakistan while they were leaving church,
referring to the dead as “martyrs… who were testifying to their faith by going
to church.” He added that Christian communities which have existed “in many
cases since the days of Saint Paul” are now under threat in countries such as
Syria and Egypt, but that Christians were called to “pray for justice and
particularly issues around anger … and, as Jesus did at the cross, to pray for
those who are doing us harm.”
A married London cab driver has been jailed for 6 years
after tying up his pregnant mistress and forcing her to take abortion pills that
killed their baby daughter.
In sport, the Americas Cup of sailing went to a final
deciding race after the USA boat, with Britain’s Ben Ainslie as one of the
crew, won seven races in succession against their New Zealand opponents to turn
an 8-1 deficit into an 8-8 tie. The New Zealanders held a massive lead in one
of the race only for light winds to
cause them to run out of time, meaning that the race was drawn. The USA won the
final race by 44 seconds to claim the Cup.
The fingerprint sensor on Apple’s new iPhones has been
successfully spoofed. If a photograph of a genuine fingerprint can be obtained,
a fake fingerprint can be created with just a laser printer and some special
gum. Apple claim their sensor is “the most advanced ever”, but the spoofers say
that it merely uses a higher resolution than most sensors, and so can be
spoofed with a higher resolution photograph.
And finally, a man in the West Midlands phoned the police to
make a complaint under the Sale of Goods Act; he complained that the prostitute
he had hired wasn’t as pretty as she had claimed to be. He was reminded that he
was the one committing a crime, and reprimanded for wasting police time.
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