West End Extra
by JAMIE WELHAM
ANTI-terror laws have been used by Westminster Council to snoop on members of the public 82 times since 2005.
City Hall authorised surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) to spy on greengrocers refusing to convert from imperial to metric measure, investigate an anti-social “street preacher”, monitor retailers suspected of selling knives to children and identify dog-owners who allow pets to foul the pavements.

Daily Mail
By Christopher Leake
Last updated at 1:01 PM on 27th June 2010
British shoppers are to be banned from buying eggs by the dozen under new regulations approved by the European Parliament.
For the first time, eggs and ­other products such as oranges and bread rolls will be sold by weight instead of by the number contained in a packet.
Until now, Britain has been exempt from EU regulations that forbid the selling of goods by number. But last week MEPs voted to end Britain’s deal despite objections from UK members.

Daily Telegraph
The law lord ruling that backed the sacking of a Christian relationship counsellor was irrational, says Christopher Booker
Lord Justice Laws last week ruled that Gary McFarlane was rightly given the sack as a relationship counsellor for refusing to give "sex therapy lessons" to gay couples because it was against his Christian principles. According to Laws, "law for the protection of a position held purely on religious grounds is irrational, divisive, capricious, arbitrary".

The Ecologist
Molly Scott Cato
Molly would glady have been tied to the stake with the other Metric Martyrs... but, being that she wasn't, she's keen to point out why weights and measures matter to all
My inability to cope with metric measurements is a source of endless amusement to my children. My second son, who is now studying medicine at Cambridge, has to be called in on an annual basis to measure the dried fruits for the Christmas puddings, while my daughter has recalibrated my cake recipes by working out that an egg, which I still think of as 2 oz., actually weighs 100g. If economics must be, as it would seem from the academy, a matter of numerical precision, then you will have to count me out.
 

 BBC Comedy Extra
The Royle Family
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Statecraft by Lady Thatcher, 2002
Britain and Europe - Time to renegotiate
.... It sometimes happens that almost overnight a course of action which has previously been dismissed as unthinkable becomes a matter of sheer commonsense.  I witnessed such a turnaround when as British Prime Minister after our 1979 election victory I led a government which up-ended Keynesian economic orthodoxy and substituted monetarist policies deemed unthinkable by the post-war political consensus.

Daily Mail Letters Page
Labour has the cheek to announce 'new powers preserving the pint and
the mile come into force today after the Government's success in Europe'.

It was public protest, lead largely by the Metric Martyrs and the
British Weights & Measures Association, that made the EU realise how
unpopular its was edict, that we were to be stopped from using
traditional measurements.

Our craven Government is merely meekly complying with the EU
retraction of needless regulation.

What's next? Will we need permission from the all-powerful EU to breathe?

>Michael Plumbe
>Hastings

Belfast Telegraph
By David Prosser
Gordon Brown often talks about how politicians must take tough decisions, but he won't have faced too many dilemmas like the one that's troubled Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson in recent days.

 

The August Review
Globalism's effects are more advanced in Great Britain because of its affairs with the European Union. In this issue, Dr David Abbott, an English citizen and freedom-loving patriot, gives his personal account of what globalization has done and is doing to Great Britain. If globalism isn't effectively resisted, the United States is just a few short years behind the same fate.

Supplementary Indications
BWMA
Here is an excerpt of statutory instrument 3046 (our emphasis):
The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated
(a) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (b) in relation to units of measurement to be used for economic, health, safety, or administrative purposes, in exercise of the powers conferred by that subsection, makes the following Regulations: