Syringia Blossoms From The Curate's Garden

Poverty Causes Crime

A 22-year-old man who won £9.7m on the lottery in 2002 has been given an anti- social behaviour order (Asbo) after admitting criminal damage.


Economic Benefits of Migration

Police said he moved to the UK in 2001 and had been dealing in crack cocaine.


More Low Intensity Warfare

Mugilan Sutherman, 43, was assaulted in Failsworth, Oldham, after apparently refusing to give a group of teenagers a light for a cigarette.
He was found collapsed on Oldham Road and was taken to The Royal Oldham Hospital where he later died.
Two boys, aged 18 and 15, and two girls, aged 14 and 15, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.


Elsewhere ...

Trevor Phillips thinks reality TV is a force for good race relations. Great timing - the Guardian and Assistant Blog raise the awkward possibility that the Big Brother house may be splitting on racial lines.

A wonderful rant by the Gray Monk on how it's all going down the tubes ... James Hamilton's been getting tanked up ... and the saintly Rev Peter Mullen on (inter alia) the new Archbishop of York.

"The Church of England has spent the last forty years dismantling the English Christian tradition."