Spam is certainly getting stranger. Of course, I still get as many offers to extend my cock with surgery or Viagra as I ever did.But the 419 scams are definitely branching out from the usual Nigerian general seeking someone trustworthy to mind his millions.I mean, I assume this is a 419 scam. In some ways, things would be much sadder if this were in any way genuine:I WANT TO BE YOUR HOUSE GIRL Monday, 11 August, 2008 9:20 PM From: "balissunm@yahoo.com" Add sender to Contacts To:...
It's a harsh demand, I appreciate.I should, no doubt, be more unquestioning, more simply accepting of the horror stories constantly presented to me.I too should clamour for more funding for those fine organisations telling us of these horrible tales of kidnap, deceit, people-smuggling, slavery and rape.Yet instead, there's a little voice at the back of my head asking, where's the evidence?Where are all the women being smuggled into Ireland to become sex-slaves in brothels?Or indeed, where are the native single mums, plunged into the murky world of seasonal prostitution because of the cost of sending their offspring back to school? (Ruhama's latest press release.)Ruhama keeps telling us incessantly of these tidal waves of women's woe. And if a fraction of what they claim really does exist,...
Teflon Tone is, apparently 'sorry' about Britain's role in the slave trade. I wasn't actually aware that the UK was still trading in slaves. They're not? So why apologise now, two centuries after the evil practice was abandoned?This stunt is reminiscent of his apology to Ireland for Britain's fault during the Irish potato famine, which was delivered on the 150th anniversary of the Great Hunger back in 1997.On the one hand, it's sort of nice that Tony at least recognises that these were great wrongs. On the other, his predeliction for looking up anniversaries of horrors to apologise for smacks of PR nonsense.By apologising for things that happened generations before his birth, he can give the impression of being a compassionate leader, a Christian soul moved by the sins of his...