A poll for the Independent on Sunday finds that 71% of British people now want withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan within a year. Roughly half those asked also believe that our role in the country increases the threat of terrorism against us - the exact opposite of the reason that the Government has consistently and emphatically repeated as it's case to the public for our staying in the country.
We're still not aware of any huge names in camera manufacturing with production facilities in Afghanistan, nor do they have any local branches of Icelandic banks so quite what the supposed threat is... who knows?
See how meaningless the 'terrorism' card becomes when they use it against everybody?
But if you wanted to know what real terror is, look no further than the Mail on Sunday which reveals there was "Terror as 60 people left injured after crush to see JLS turn on Birmingham's Christmas lights". Moral of the story? We don't need to fight wars in Afghanistan. We just need to ban boybands.
Meanwhile, The Observer has an interesting headline which reads: "UK leaders fear anger of frustrated army families". We had to see what that one was about but, disappointingly, our brave troops have no reported plans to stage a coup d'etat and return the power over our nation to it's people. Which is a shame.
If our troops have no plans to rid us of our own tyrannical leaders, we could cast a glance at the Russians. According to the Sunday Express, the powers that be are nervous that there is danger of collision between commercial flights into and out of Britain as Russian military planes perform "missions around UK skies".
Even if the Russians invaded, quite how we'd distinguish them from the communists who have already overthrown our nation state is a bit of a mystery.
The complete bull of Labour's "climate change" and faux green credentials are revealed to be exactly that as the Sunday Telegraph exposes that 27 towns and cities are at the centre of reviews into the extent of their green belt. For some time, we've had green issues rammed down our throats and told how much the country needs immigration. Now we get our green belt under threat because this lot want to build all over it. Ask most Brits whether they would rather pay carbon taxes as penance for "man made global warming" or shut the doors to Britain and preserve our countryside and... oooh... could this blogger be in amongst the majority of public opinion by preferring to do and look after the latter?
The Sunday Times reports that Hatty Harperson and Trevor Philips of the Equality and Human Rights Commission have a hand in a review to consider the demanding of every single person in Britain to state on the 2011 census whether they are gay, bisexual or heterosexual. The question is apparently aimed at monitoring "the progress of equality legislation". However, would you really support such questions being asked by a Government with the track record of this one? History suggests this would be a very unwise move.
And finally... the News of the World reports how the lovely Prince Harry gave a gay man a peck on the cheek in a nightclub as a 'thank you' for a kind comment about Diana and for a bottle of Stella or something. Not as sensational as it sounds in their headline. Rather cute and inclusive of the very charming young Royal. We'd like Harry even if he wasn't Diana's son. But he is. So we adore him.
...but what would the census people make of that friendly peck on the cheek?
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