Misbah Rana (Molly Campbell) situation – settlement

Finally there has been some kind of settlement over the Misbah Rana case. The long and short is that Louise Campbell (Misbah’s mother) will be free to come and visit her daughter in Pakistan at the expense of Mr Rana. Now I don’t necessarily think that is such a good judgement as it does not stipulate the number of times nor is it ideal for a mother to travel halfway across the globe and then travel back just to be with her daughter for a few hours. It also isn’t really a settlement as the ruling is dependent on the two divorcees finding an agreement between themselves – something which I think will take ages and ages. It does however also allow Misbah to remain in Pakistan regardless of the outcome.

However good or bad this seems, it appears that this is what the daughter wants.

Racism in Britain coming to the fore…

Well I never! In only a few days of watching TV, I was witnessing a mass evolution of what can and can’t be said on TV! A Newsnight debate yesterday hosted by Jeremy Paxman showed some unveiled racism from certain “intellectual” quarters towards Scottish people and a blatant opposition to Gordon Brown because he is Scottish. Not a debate about whether or not economically, militarily and feasibly; the union is right or wrong – but because he is Scottish. Forget the fact he has been chancellor for ages, his kids are going to be brought up as English (and Tony Blair was raised and educated in Scotland) but he is SCOTTISH.

BB clips today and stupid, ignorant and seemingly racist talk about Shilpa. All really beg the question why are people these days being forced to take sides on the basis of race? As children we never did and at university we certainly didn’t.