The website make-over: a tribute to the re-designer
The wholesale redesign of this website and the integration of my Ephems blog into it are entirely the work of Owen Barder: it has already attracted much admiration.
Author: Brian
Blair, Blunkett and Booth
As Tony Blair lends the Home Office back to David Blunkett, a public dialogue between Tony and Cherie Booth QC is developing about the role of the judges in the effort to counter terrorism.
Blaming those who can’t blame the bombers
It’s refreshing to read an eloquent denunciation of those on a recent Question-Time programme who sought to blame everyone except the bombers for the London bombings
Ethiopian famine relief: old myths demolished (2)
David Rieff’s original attack on Live Aid and the Ethiopian famine relief effort in 1984-86 appeared in Prospect magazine. Prospect has now published my letter (and two others) rebutting Rieff’s mean and unfounded charges.
Shoot to Kill, and other remedies?
The government’s proposed new measures in response to 7/7 are surprisingly moderate, subject to scrutiny of the details; and the police, on the available evidence so far, had no real alternative to the action they took in killing the innocent (as it turned out) brazilian at Stockwell tube station.
More on the London bombings
E-mails flying around in the last few days have been polluting the air with glib denunciations of Tony Blair for supposedly having precipitated the London bombings of 7/7 by joining the Americans in invading and occupying Iraq.
Husbands of queens
Jane Barder writes that husbands of Queens Regnant (queens reigning in their own right, not queens by virtue of being married to kings) have never been welcomed in England.