After a couple of weeks in sunnier climes – stuffing myself on steak, sushi and overly fizzy beer – I return to find it’s business as usual:<\/p>\n
Charles Clarke is still planning on acting illegally<\/a>, there are still questions which may never be answered about the Stockwell shooting<\/a> which seems to be getting more unjustified by the day<\/a>, and there’s still a spat over the 21st July bomb suspect held in Italy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Elsewhere the US is continuing its attempts to undermine the UN<\/a>, with Bush’s appointee John Bolton trying to get the organisation to spend less time trying to alleviate poverty and scrap plans for rich nations to spend 0.7% of their national income on helping the poorest countries (the US currently gives 0.2%).<\/p>\n Over in Iraq, everything looks set to go tits up again<\/a>, in Iran there’s still no progress over their nuclear programme<\/a>, while Africa’s still screwed<\/a> and, following dickwad preacher Pat Robertson’s calls for the assassination of a democratically-elected leader<\/a> the US doesn’t like, a dictator the US does like is about to execute people who allegedly wanted to assassinate him<\/a>.<\/p>\n In all, nothing’s changed in the slightest. Even the cricket’s continuing in much the same vein<\/a>, with England doing well but not well enough to be uncatchable. I should go on holiday more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a couple of weeks in sunnier climes – stuffing myself on steak, sushi and overly fizzy beer – I return to find it’s business as usual: Charles Clarke is still planning on acting illegally, there are still questions which … Continue reading