The torture interviews
Brian’s BBC interviews about the Law Lords’ ruling against the admissibility of evidence got by torture can be heard here [More >>>]
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Caribbean cruise diary
A two-part, light-hearted diary of a P&O cruise to the Caribbean in November 2005 [More >>>]
The home secretary’s disingenuous response to the torture ruling
My letter in today’s Guardian seeks to expose the misleading and perverse character of the home secretary’s reaction to the law lords’ ban on torture-tainted evidence [More >>>]
Inequality, opportunity and meritocracy
Our prime minister totally misunderstands the dire implications of untrammelled ‘equality of opportunity’ and a meritocratic Britain [More >>>]
A dialogue about plurals and other horrors
An exchange of messages about some linguistic howlers [More >>>>]
Harold Pinter’s Nobel lecture
Pinter at his most savage, eloquent and quirky in receiving his Nobel prize [More >>>]
Finding excuses for torture
Devising unlikely scenarios and finicky definitions to justify torture is a shameful and unacceptable activity [More >>>]
The Law Lords on torture: magnificent, but for the worm in the apple
A splendid judgment by the law lords banning the use of torture-derived evidence in UK courts, but imposing a test for determining whether torture has probably been used which in practice can never be satisfied: no wonder the home office is happy! [More >>>]
Guardian on Ephems on Sir Ian Blair
The Guardian’s daily blog excerpts includes an old item of mine from last August [More >>>>]
Ephems AFK
Ephems will be on holiday for the rest of November, so your killer comments will go unanswered for a while. (More >>>)