Deporting to torture
Mr Blair’s plan to deport terrorism suspects to countries liable to torture them, and to pass new laws forcing the courts to uphold it and sabotaging their rights of appeal, is a constitutional monstrosity.
Category: Politics
Mimi of Georgia on the war in Iraq
In her comment on a year-old Ephems entry, Mimi from Georgia indicts America’s leaders and Tony Blair for their actions in Iraq.
Are al-Qaida’s aims negotiable?
Some argue that al-Qaida’s aims are limited and capable of being at least discussed. I believe that their aims are so far-reaching as to be fundamentally non-negotiable.
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.