I don't see why, not. Sacha Baron Cohen made a career out of it, and consequently showed lot of people up as fools. Tony Benn immediately springs to mind. Funnily enough, I think it was former US Vice-President Alexander Haig who, not being in on the joke, said "But you're not black!"

Sacha Baron Cohen: now there's a traditional sounding name!

Talking of double standards, a friend of mine (Irish and thus white) is traveling to South Africa shortly and must undergo a chest x-ray at his own expense to prove he does not have TB!

Fair play to the South Africans for screening visitors to ensure that no further contamination arrives in their country, but whenever the idea of health screening for sub-Saharan (black to you and me) arrivals here is suggested, up goes the cry of "Wacist", followed by "Africans are no more likely to be infected than any of us!".

What is the saying? It's only racist when whitey does it!

Spot on!

It always amazes me how thin skinned these poor escapees from persecution are. If they were as vocal and stroppy in their own countries as they are here, then their homelands would surely become beacons of democracy in double quick time.

Afghanistan is the latest case in point. If every whinging complainant like Faisal (who shouldn't even have been given breathing space here) stayed at home they could surely make a sizable armed force, but no, that would involve putting themselves at risk. It's far safer, and more profitable, to freeload in the West than to be principled and at home.

If I lived in London I'd give my vote to Ken Livingston.

There are 2 reasons:

1) Boris Johnson's subsequent return to Westminster and the embarrassment that would cause Dave would be priceless.
2) Ken Livingston actually carrying out his promise/threat to turn London into a "beacon for Islam" would surely be a catalyst for nationalism.

Paddick doesn't even deserve consideration. I remember his remark after the tube bombings: "Islam and terrorism do not belong in the same sentence". Besides, any remaining decent police officers deserve better than to be answerable to a homosexual islamophile.

The key phrase is "gated community".

No-one to my knowledge has explained what the "victim" was doing there. OK, he was on his way home from a convenience store, but why did this involve intrusion and trespass on private property?

It used to be the case in the US that if you illegally entered private property, you were dead, no case to answer. Simple.

I went to a state Grammar School, complete with the King James Bible in morning assembly. Because I was good at Latin I took up the option of Greek.

I agree that there's some dodgy stuff particularly associated with the Spartans, but I am certainly normal.

From now on I've decided to take my cue from other posters and shun the homosexual word "straight".

True!

I usually refuse to use the word "gay" in the context of homosexuality. Occasionally on this site and others, if it is unavoidable I ALWAYS use quotation marks.

This corruption of a word has echoes of Newspeak as in George Orwell's 1984.

Incidentally, here in Ireland where I now live, there used to be a chain of shops called "Gay Wear". Sometime in the '70s sales plummeted for some reason. The chain was saved by renaming themselves "A-Wear". We should indeed find ways to reclaim the English language as it was meant to be used.

"But a judge spared her a return to prison because she had only recently been released."

I would have thought that would be reason enough to send her straight back - first to prison and then wherever she's from.

I think that with statements like that Williams is preparing the path for Charles "Defender of Faith", not "Defender of THE Faith".

I'll repeat what I've said many times, when Charles gets the top gig, there's sure to be an Imam up on the altar, alongside the Archbishop.

Quotes from Life of Brian:

Stan: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?!?!
Stan: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But ... you can't HAVE babies!
Stan: Don't you oppress me!
Reg: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the fetus gonna gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?

I've posted before how used to enjoy that movie on account of it's absurdity, but now it looks more and more like a documentary on political correctness.