Monthly Archive: January 2004

Fun for all the family…

It also transpires that Saddam rejected part of the resistance. Although he called for jihad against the occupiers in the tapes slipped out to al-Jazeera and other Arab media, he was writing more careful...

Ideology and electoral politics so dominated the domestic-policy process during his tenure that it was often impossible to have a rational exchange of ideas. The incurious President was so opaque on some important issues...

And oldie, but goodie. Earlier here.

The international news agency Reuters has made a formal complaint to the Pentagon following the “wrongful” arrest and apparent “brutalisation” of three of its staff this month by US troops in Iraq … “They...

So the “solution” to cows infected with BSE is to attempt to divert the most infectious tissues (spinal tissues, brains, nerves) from direct human ingestion towards ingestion by pigs and poultry on the assumption...

Four generations of the current president’s family have embroiled the United States in the Middle East through CIA connections, arms shipments, rogue banks, inherited war policies and personal financial links … Ted Koppel put...

[Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill] likened Bush at Cabinet meetings to “a blind man in a room full of deaf people”.

The weirdness continues… A few days ago I got one of those free credit reports and, checking it, was amazed to see that a debt collection agency, the Collection Bureau of America, had registered...

So long since the last post, I have been rather busy and soaking up the rays… Got engaged to Lisa – on Christmas Day! Bought a guaranteed child slavery-free war-free diamond, from Canada. I...