A prime example of how locking people up without putting them on trial can lead to resentment, anger and alienation: Arrested December 2003 and released without charge after six days, then re-arrested in August 2004 by request of the United … Continue reading →

After much pondering, I have decided to drop the cloak of blogging semi-anonymity, step out from behind the curtain and reveal my real name. You won’t have heard of me, don’t worry, and with a little bit of link-following or … Continue reading →

Using Blairite logic, if Tony doesn’t follow Thailand’s example and force us all to register our pay-as-you-go mobiles to ensure they can’t be used in a terrorist attack, he will have blood on his hands if, as I hope will … Continue reading →

Sorry, busy – check out Soj’s superb (as usual) EuroPDB if you have a hankering for newsy stuff. Glad to see her forced blogging retirement ended up being short-lived.

I was going to do a “Peter Mandelson is a twat and so is France” round-up, but trade talks are simply too damn tedious. Thankfully the Curious Hamster has done it for me. Ta, boss.

Utterly predictable – I mean, OBVIOUSLY it’s the 15 people rounded up for a show trial who are guilty here, not the government forces who massacred hundreds of peaceful protestors… “the judge… repeated many of the details of the government’s … Continue reading →

Following the Blair camp’s “the police know best” line on the whole 90 days thing, should we follow the (alleged) example of this former senior policeman? Is Tony going to propose new legislation to make us all fuck children? At … Continue reading →

I’d never heard of her before, but this load of abject bollocks (though entirely expected) earns her a place on my Commons cunts list: “I very much hope that we will never have another terrorist atrocity in Britain. But if … Continue reading →

A tad late for Rembrance Sunday, this, but found the press release amongst the hundreds of emails awaiting me back at work. Channel Four and the Imperial War Museum have teamed up to launch a couple of websites which could … Continue reading →

From my news catch-up reading, nice to see that some things never change – Central Asia is still riddled with corruption and politically-motivated murder while facing economic crises – all of which are still being denied by these various near-psychotic … Continue reading →

Here you go, a few snaps from the trip. This will likely be a pisser for anyone on dial-up, I’m afraid, and no idea how it’ll look as I’m using Blogger’s picture hosting for the first time. It was an … Continue reading →

And trying to catch up with everything I missed. A lot of mental shit’s been happening in both the UK and on the continent while I’ve been away, so it may take me a while. Best missed headline so far? … Continue reading →

A message from a London bombs survivor to the Safety Elephant, Blair and co.: “I hear your voices dripping sympathy and concern, saying you do this ‘for the victims’, Tony, Charles, and the rest of you…and I am disgusted that … Continue reading →

I’ve missed loads while out enjoying Japan and stuff, from Blunkett going out on his arse to the government’s majority being reduced to one on an important terror-related vote (a vote to which a certain vocally anti-war MP for Bethnal … Continue reading →