The White House has published an up-to-date version of its National Strategy for Combating Terrorism document, containing some useful insights even though Europeans would express some of it differently [More >>>]
Peter Taylor’s article in the Guardian of 1 September 2006 draws wholly illegitimate conclusions from interviews with or about angry Muslims about the Iraq war being the ‘reason’ for terrorism in the UK, repeating the canard about Blair and co. denying any connection between them [More >>>]
In a recent Ephems entry I remarked, not for the first time, on the media’s repeated assertions that Tony Blair (in the words of a Guardian columnist, chosen at random) “famously [sic] insists that there...
A controversial and thought-provoking speech on the middle east and the west by an eminent Israeli scientist asks a number of uncomfortable questions and offers some unpalatable propositions [More >>>]
Language can be abused in unwitting self-betrayal, by clothing platitudes in pretentious and trendy costume, or by plain old-fashioned murder. Some examples [More >>>]
Some of our ministers are employing ‘life coaches’ at vast public expense, according to the Sunday Times. Terrifying. [More >>>]
The Defence Secretary has emerged from obscurity to pardon WWI soldiers executed for cowardice. This suggests a need to identify other figures from the past who suffered punishments now regarded as unjust and who should similarly be pardoned now [More >>>]
The foiling of the UK terrorists’ plot to bomb aeroplanes in mid-air between Britain and the US (still cautiously referred to in the Guardian and elsewhere as the “alleged” plot) has prompted the emergence...
Oliver Kamm’s article (Guardian 18 Aug 06) makes the right points on Lebanon, however controversially. First post in Windows Live Writer [More >>>]