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This week’s TLS (out now etc.) has a review of that Worstall‘s blogging compilation book thing. The reviewer’s name may be somewhat familiar to readers of this blog… *ahem* It’s not available online, so here you go and stuff: Blogs … Continue reading →

Via Rachel: Please come and join us for a 7/7 Anniversary Memorial Service. This Saturday 7th January 2006, 3pm at the Cenotaph, Whitehall, Westminster. This Saturday at 3pm there will be held an informal ceremony at the Cenotaph, near Downing … Continue reading →

Brian Barder has rounded up his views on the whole Craig Murray / Uzbekistan torture affair. Unfortunately, he’s mis-read the problem. (Please note – despite appearances this is not intended as a flaming…) I’ve always found Barder Snr fairly good … Continue reading →

I’ve put my finger on why Cameron’s “the NHS is safe in our hands” speech sounded a bit odd: he said “Under a Conservative government, the NHS will remain free at the point of need” – not, as is traditional, … Continue reading →

Can anyone tell me where the proof is behind the Independent’s Terror suspects describe alleged torture ‘in front of MI6 agents’ headline? I don’t doubt that it’s possible, but it hardly tallies with the sixth paragraph of the article: “However, … Continue reading →

Scotland still a bit crappy; Scots still money-obsessed misers. Yep, 299 years after the Act of Union (something some seem to want to scrap), England is still better and Scotland retains its peculiar, under-developed charm (life expectancy of just 54? … Continue reading →

There was a good rundown article in yesterday’s Sunday Herald which makes for a top-notch intro to this little spat, which I’ll paste in a comment in case it falls offline, as well as a letter in today’s Herald from … Continue reading →

Happy New Year and stuff. It’s 2am, I’m pissed up on booze and trying to entertain at least four nationalities until they decide to leave. Hurrah. 2006 had better not be as shit as 2005. And who’s idea was it … Continue reading →

A good round-up from Tim Ireland, and more on that Enron memo from Murray himself and Lenin which are worth a look. The Associated Press has now picked up on the story, and via its newswires this is cropping up … Continue reading →

(A good summary at The Register for those who came in late, or see earlier…) A little bit of Uzbek-US relations. Speaks for itself, really (click for big): Rumsfeld likes the torturous Uzbek regime and all (and again). Always easier … Continue reading →

Following Lenin’s lead, more in-depth posts about the latest attempts to mislead the public over the extent of Britain’s interest in torture are cropping up at Bloggerheads and former Ambassador Craig Murray’s own blog. Murray was sacked for trying to … Continue reading →

Five days with no news, plenty of beer, wine, whisky, champagne, port, armagnac and cognac, obscene amounts of top-notch food and even some snow. Hurrah. I return to discover that I made it to number 8 in Blogpulse’s top blogposts … Continue reading →

Not that it matters – these days under new measures put through the elf-packed workshops of the north pole, if Santa suspects you of having even thought of being naughty it’s no pressies for you. And he’s probably been tapping … Continue reading →