Busy working out fancy HTML code and stuff. Have some interesting bits and pieces:

• How British and American conservatives united to stop Bush endorsing the EU constitution as favour to Blair
• The race to ratify the European Union constitution is like a steeplechase in which the hurdles become progressively higher and more intimidating
• If Britain is doing so well, why doesn’t it feel like it?
• Did Blair sign up for the Iraq war in August 2002?
• Michael Portillo on the British shift to authoritarianism
• The Labour party finally twigs – Blair is a liability
• Meanwhile, has Michael Howard found a way to win? (Erm… in a word – no)
• Who’s George W to lecture Putin on democracy?
• The Putin and Yukos saga gets even more Cold War with the uncovering of a Stasi spy
• Oh, and despite his talks with George, Vlad’s still shipping out nuclear fuel to Iran
• Eurotunnel starts acting like a small African republic
• “The old bastard. The stupid bastard.” – Ralph Steadman on Hunter S Thompson and a bit from Tom Wolfe
• An interview with Fran�ois Mitterrand’s illegitimate daughter
• An obituary of the founder of Amnesty International
• The British Navy’s pink carpet
• The effect on the peacekeepers – the UN’s commander in Rwanda in 1994 relives the genocide
• Can a movie really effectively deal with genocide? And a review
• The Case for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
• Are NATO and the European Union partners or rivals?”