Here were the three “issues” debated on the Sunday Live programme this morning on the BBC.

“Should prostitution be socially acceptable”?

70% of viewers said yes and will presumably be inviting their daughters and sons to pursue this exciting new career route.

“Should Gay Weddings be allowed in Church”.  

Gay vicars on to say Yes. I say, sure – the same day they allowed in Mosques.

And finally, “Are we too soft on Islam?”

A categorical NO to that from the majority of speakers, in fact we are too hard on Islam, it appears!

This kind of formulaic left wing dross care of the License Tax is an utter disgrace.   

I was requested to update my online biography a few days ago. I didn’t have to struggle over what to put in or leave out, I am a fairly uncomplicated man, and I have few skeletons in my closet. I wrote about my family and my Grandsons, about my life in the worlds of Engineering, and my political beliefs.

I could have included, but instead omitted, the little-publicised fact that I once spent a night in a Brazilian jail on charges of drunkenness, damage to a café’s furniture and fixings and general mayhem. My excuse for the melee, along with the rest of the Officers of the ore-carrier I was sailing on at the time, was that the bar-owner wanted to close up at three a.m., instead of staying open and continuing playing selections from his Glenn Miller L.P.s. As anyone connected in any way with the music of Glenn Miller would affirm, a perfectly natural reaction!

The final point, the final sentence of my mini-history was a fervent wish that the Right to Free Speech should return to this over-governed, over-regulated, and overbearingly ruled Nation which I hold so dear!

I write this because, once more, the Thought Police have got their keyboard truncheons out over a UseNet group or WebSite which gives, or purports to give, advice about suicide. How to do it, when and where to attempt it, the list of horrors listed by this silly woman just drips on and on.

No, we cannot censor the internet. We couldn’t even if we wished to. True, nations-states like China, Burma, Iran do a fairly efficient job of blocking sites to which they wish to restrict access, but most computer users, if at all proficient, can find their way past the blocks. But a remote server can be anywhere, and all one needs is a PC or a Mac, access to a broadband connection, and that server can be maintained, accessed and updated from anywhere.

My point is simple; it is the very thought that someone feels the need to restrict access to views which they do not subscribe to, that is the totalitarian viewpoint. Much as I dislike and detest the clowns who demonstrate, with their placards of hate, against our Armed Forces, for example, as they rightfully parade through the streets of our cities and towns, it is because they have exactly the same rights as I to demonstrate in support of those Armed Forces that I do not hope that they may be stopped.

We should make sure that each and every viewpoint is allowed, there should be no marches banned, no demonstrations re-rerouted; if two different ideologies clash, that is their problem. As long as no innocent bystanders get caught up, let them have at one another. As I wrote a while back in a review of a book I admired, ‘we have a built-in predilection, almost at a genetic level, for ferocious violence’.

Maybe we should, just, ‘let our hair down’ now and again!

The Islamification of the UK continues – without little dissent. Now Halal meat is on just about every supermarket shelf.

Britain’s biggest supermarket chains are selling halal lamb and chicken without telling unsuspecting shoppers. Those stocking meat slaughtered according to Islamic law include Waitrose, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Somerfield and the Co-op. 

Fast-food chains including Domino’s Pizza, Pizza Hut, KFC, Nando’s and Subway are also using halal meat without telling customers.

But the UK’s second-biggest supermarket, Asda, has refused to confirm or deny whether it sells halal meat.

Initially, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Tesco were reluctant to admit they sold halal meat. But later they confessed to selling Islamically slaughtered lamb. Tesco also admitted selling some halal chicken without labelling it as such.

So, our large retailers bow the knee to Islam and don’t bother to tell us about it? Thanks. Slowly, very slowly, the crescent of Islam is casting a shadow over this land and we edge slowly into accepting THEIR customs whilst removing our own. 

The po-faced little Hitler’s in local Government seek to stamp out that menace called…humour.

Mother-in-law jokes, once the bedrock of British comedy, have been banned by the London Borough of Barnet because they are ‘offensively sexist’ and disrespectful to ‘family elders’

So, here are some good ones! I was very close to my late mother-in law but the jokes are still a laugh, except to those little Hitler’s in Barnet. 

Ed Miliband is the perfect modern leftist man. He does not marry, and he does not see a need to even have his name on his son’s birth certificate.

As the son of a North London Marxist intellectual, you might expect Ed Miliband to have a less than conventional approach to traditional family values. And the birth certificate of his 15-month-old son, Daniel, would appear to bear this out, as it includes everything except any mention of the boy’s proud father.

Although the section headed ‘Father’ is blank, Daniel’s mother Justine Thornton is named, along with her Manchester birthplace and profession, barrister.  Daniel was born on June 2 last year and the birth certificate was signed by Justine in Camden, near the couple’s London home, five weeks later on July 9.

There is no suggestion that Ed Miliband is not Daniel’s father and when asked why his name is not on the register, a spokeswoman for the new Labour leader suggested he simply had not had time to fill in the form.

This is not the only unusual aspect of his private life, as Mr Miliband is also the first leader of a major British political party to be living with his family out of wedlock. He and Justine, who will give birth to the couple’s second child in little over a month, are not married. Mr Miliband says: ‘We’ll get round to it at some point, but I don’t think people would mind if we didn’t”

I couldn’t care less if he ever marries, or indeed if he ever finds the time to put his name to his son’s birth certificate. But if one asks if such a man can defend traditional family values, forget it. 

It’s reported that a healthcare worker in Craigavon Area Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department is suspected of having tuberculosis (TB). The Public Health Agency said the worker ceased clinical duties as soon as the suspected case was identified.

This is the hospital nearest to where I live and I was wondering just HOW it could be that a TB outbreak could happen? TB is, as you know an infectious and deadly disease, but by the 1980′sit had become quite rare in the UK. But it’s on the rise again.

Here’s the question; Is unfettered immigration a factor here? TB is much more common in the 3rd world and thanks to years of Labour, the 3rd world has come to live amongst us.  

Did you read that by Islamists to kill Commonwealth Games competitors and kidnap fans emerged yesterday, as British athletes flew out to the event in India.

Security sources have warned of “specific intelligence” about a threat by an unnamed Al Qaeda-linked group to take hostages in front of a global television audience. Reports emerging from Australia suggest a number of countries are worried but will not upgrade travel warnings for fear of angering India.

“For fear of angering India”? What does THAT mean?

I hope these games pass peacefully, the run up has been most inauspicious with the shambles of the facilities becoming apparent, and it is India that needs to be careful it does not anger the those Nations entrusting the safety of their athletes to it. 

I popped into this old Belfast building the other day – the Ulster Hall.

Here are a few interesting facts about it.

Charles Dickens had three gigs in it back in the 1880′s. Sell-outs, apparently.

Led Zeppelin first publicly premiered a certain song called “Stairway to Heaven” in it back in 1970!

In 1995, I attended a political event which led to my interest in NI politics!

Now, you can pick which of these was the most momentous. In fact the MOST significant thing I remember doing was going to see The Clash play here back in 1977.

It’s been lovingly restored and is an oasis of calm for a nice coffee. 

Yes, one of my obscure musical headings which I figure no one will get but a prize to whoever can get the song, so that’s a start! To put another way, ATW is going to be moving home shortly and I will tell more in the next few days. A change is coming.