Beautiful Lebanese Singer Najwa Sultan

Najwa Sultan is one of most beautiful Lebanese singers. She was and raised in Deir el Kamar, Lebanon. Despite her basic singing abilities, she is beleived to have taken private singing classes with music instructors Fouad Awwad and Michael Karkash. She started her career by targeting mostly the male audience from the Gulf Region, in addition to Jordan and Syria. Her earlier songs were mostly popular shaabi styled ones, but her most recent work includes some dance and electronic music as well. Najwa Sultan has released more than 7 albums including “Maly Malo” and “Elly Bahebo”.

Vincent Tabak case lines up legal eagles

The Joanna Yeates murder case is intriguing from a criminal justice viewpoint. Some murders are so low profile nobody outside the local nick knows they ever happened. Some are the exact opposite. This case is the latter. It has all the ingredients to make the press excited. What they tend to forget is that people are involved, both victim's family and accused's family. In this case, others are drawn into the case by just the mere fact they lived nearby or just happened to be close by at the time.

I see that Tabak (whose name is Tobacco in Dutch) has Paul Cook as his barrister. He appears to be a suitable choice. The prosecutor will be Ann Reddropp, head of the Complex Case unit at the CPS South west group. She once came a cropper up against a judge who criticised the CPS for bringing a case of racial aggravation.

A man was up in court for saying "F*** off you Paki, I want an English doctor, not a f***ing Paki." Judge Darlow remarked: "This was a single sentence to a man who should not have taken it so seriously. He is a man of some considerable standing in society and I cannot see that it caused him any distress or hurt. It should not have caused a problem in this case. To charge rather than let it go by with a caution strikes me as rather odd. We let people hit each other and break into people's homes and they are not charged." Ann Reddrop, prosecuting, said: "When there is a burglary and it is in the public interest there will be a prosecution. This was a police surgeon and he is entitled to the same protection as anyone else."
The judge then stated: "So next time call him a fat bastard and don't say anything about his colour."

There's something about the English legal system that never changes. I don't know about fat bastards but I get the impression it's sometimes about fat ladies waiting to sing. Even when they do, it's not always over. That's why I find the case of Vincent Tabak intriguing. Something is stopping the fat lady singing in my mind.

Sexist views in the news for Sky News

I was wondering what had happened to Richard Keys. Sort of. Then I hear he's been talking in that blokish way Sky blokes talk. Does it surprise me? Not really. I can't think what all the fuss is about. Football is full of blokish blokes. It's year's since I went to a top flight football game. It was all blokish stuff then. If young women want to mix with the lads' game, they will need cloth ears. Also an ability to absorb four letter words as if Noddy spoke them.

Sky Sports or News or Whatever has taken Keys and his mate to task. I never watch Sky Sports. Sort of watch Sky News. Too much Murdoch gives me the collywobbles. All a storm in a tea cup. I mention this only because some seem to think it matters. I don't think so. Football will implode under a mountain of debt or be crushed in the stampede of angry fans trying to get at greedy foreign owners. It's not a game anymore. It's a cynical business.

Vincent Tabak's family hire a "professional spokesman"

According to De Telegraaf, one of the top newspapers in the Netherlands, the family of Dutchman Vincent Tabak, the man accused of murdering Joanna Yeates, has hired a media man to protect their side of the events. They have suggested that the British media has not portrayed them in a favourable light. The family is convinced of his innocence and now feel the need to present their views in this way.

I suspect that certain cultural differences may be beginning to emerge. This story is full of twist and turns. I just don't get the sense that it is going to be that straightforward.

Gordon Brown hacked off with hackers

Gordon Brown may not have been the best prime minister, but he did get to be in that office. Whatever one may think of the leadership of the country, it is no excuse to try to listen in on phone conversations. I have no clue what the News of the World got up to when trying to get stories. We do know someone went to jail for phonehacking. We do know that many famous people are rightly concerned that their phones may have been hacked into. We do know that Andy Coulson has resigned because he can't give 110% to the job. What we don't know and should is if there has been anything going on greater than that already prosecuted. The Metropolitan Police seem to have put this matter on a back burner.

Newspapers should investigate wrongdoing, report on all manner of issues and allow the publication of comment and opinion. It's called a free press. What they can't do is listen into private conversations in order to inflame passions in others. Do I want to know what goes on in a famous person's bedroom? I do not! However, should I know whether a policeman on duty is cavorting with a politician's wife whilst ostensibly protecting that polician from harm? Yes, because it tells me whether a lack of integrity exists where integrity should exist.

Why Scotland Yard is so cavalier about all this I do not know. But they should start turning over a few stones to see what crawls out from under. Something is going on and if it is not all sorted out soon, it will fester causing unnecessary trouble all round.

Vincent Tabak charged with the murder of Joanna Yeates

Vincent Tabak, a Dutch architectural engineer, who lives in the same apartment block as Joanna Yeates, has been charged with her murder. He will appear in court on Monday.

This is progress in the case, but it does not mean it is the conclusion. Depending on his plea, Tabak will be able to have a defence or instruct his counsel otherwise. There should be no rush to judgement. There has been too much of that already in this matter and in other cases down the years a similar attitude has prevailed. The media needs restraint now as before.

BBC institutionally Left-wing or just plain biased?

Daniel Hannan, in his Telegraph blog, suggests that the BBC is not impartial but that it should be. He asks the question "How is this impartiality to be secured?" and answers by sayng," By the best possible method: the new chairman will be subject to a confirmation hearing by MPs. Instead of being, as in the past, a government placeman, the successful candidate will have to satisfy MPs of all factions – for no party has an absolute majority on the Select Committee – that he will be disinterested."

The BBC is rather peculiar, has irrational tendencies at times and moves through life with some very odd views in tow. I think they are completely and utterly incomprehensible regarding the Ordinariate. It would never suit their purpose to have on Thought for the Day anyone from it. I've never heard anyone from Forward in Faith given airtime, other than to be pilloried for antiquated views, but they've got half a dozen female clerics on hand as if everyone accepts this as the norm. The country may well do. Many have no clue or interest in matters of faith. But why should some be excluded? Has the BBC made a pact with female clerics?

The same is true about those they cannot abide. The BNP is one such organisation. Instead of simply saying that Nick Griffin was able to appear on Question Time in a similar way to Respect or the Green Party due to advancement in electoral support, a whole rigmarole of committee talk is put in place with the eventual programme being a bad joke.

It's as though only certain opinion is permitted, anything else is strictly monitored and given short shrift. We may not agree with some views. That's OK, but a fair hearing is what the BBC should offer, without appearing to be some kind of Stasi-light filtering service. When it came to Griffin's appearance on Question Time all we got was Dimbleby acting like some kind of second rate schoolmaster bating an errant boy.

Peter Sissons has a piece in the Daily Mail claiming standards have fallen at the BBC and accusing producers of being too mired in political correctness to do anything about it. I wish they could see how they are seen by others. Maybe they don't have any mirrors in the corporation?

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