{"id":350,"date":"2005-02-27T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/some-sunday-reading\/"},"modified":"2005-02-27T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-27T17:12:00","slug":"some-sunday-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/some-sunday-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Sunday reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busy working out fancy HTML code and stuff. Have some interesting bits and pieces:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/02\/27\/wbush27.xml&amp;sSheet=\/news\/2005\/02\/27\/ixhome.html\">How British and American conservatives united to stop Bush endorsing the EU constitution as favour to Blair<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=3700274\">The race to ratify the European Union constitution is like a steeplechase in which the hurdles become progressively higher and more intimidating<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/newspaper\/0,,176-1502140,00.html\">If Britain is doing so well, why doesn&#8217;t it feel like it?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/story.jsp?story=615231\">Did Blair sign up for the Iraq war in August 2002?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/newspaper\/0,,176-1502572,00.html\">Michael Portillo on the British shift to authoritarianism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/story\/0,6903,1426456,00.html\">The Labour party finally twigs &#8211; Blair is a liability<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/focus\/story\/0,6903,1426296,00.html\">Meanwhile, has Michael Howard found a way to win?<\/a> (Erm&#8230; in a word &#8211; no)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/27\/opinion\/27dowd.html?hp\">Who&#8217;s George W to lecture Putin on democracy?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;sessionid=45FPPSCQPXCFLQFIQMFSM5OAVCBQ0JVC?xml=\/news\/2005\/02\/27\/wruss27.xml&amp;sSheet=\/portal\/2005\/02\/27\/ixportal.html&amp;secureRefresh=true&amp;_requestid=24286\">The Putin and Yukos saga gets even more Cold War with the uncovering of a Stasi spy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/aponline\/international\/AP-Iran-Nuclear.html?hp&amp;amp;amp;amp;ex=1109566800&amp;en=fedba53cd807ee0b&amp;ei=5094&amp;partner=homepage\">Oh, and despite his talks with George, Vlad&#8217;s still shipping out nuclear fuel to Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2005\/02\/27\/cneur27.xml&amp;menuId=242&amp;sSheet=\/portal\/2005\/02\/27\/ixportal.html\">Eurotunnel starts acting like a small African republic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/newspaper\/0,,176-1502182,00.html\">&#8220;The old bastard. The stupid bastard.&#8221; &#8211; Ralph Steadman on Hunter S Thompson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/la\/?id=110006325\">a bit from Tom Wolfe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/newspaper\/0,,176-1502068,00.html\">An interview with Fran\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdois Mitterrand&#8217;s illegitimate daughter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Observer\/uk_news\/story\/0,6903,1426459,00.html\">An obituary of the founder of Amnesty International<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/geted.pl5?ed20050227a1.htm\">The British Navy&#8217;s pink carpet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/newspaper\/0,,176-1502059,00.html\">The effect on the peacekeepers &#8211; the UN&#8217;s commander in Rwanda in 1994 relives the genocide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/review\/story\/0,6903,1425995,00.html\">Can a movie really effectively deal with genocide?<\/a> And <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/screen\/story\/0,6903,1426007,00.html\">a review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmag.org\/content\/print_article.cfm?itemID=7301&amp;sectionID=41\">The Case for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=3690939\">Are NATO and the European Union partners or rivals?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/some-sunday-reading\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}