Category: Politics
Tom Kelly & Walter Mitty
Tom Kelly and the Walter Mitty faux pas: couldn’t have happened if the old rules governing disclosures to the media had been observed.
The case for war
Was the government’s public case for joining the Americans in invading and occupying Iraq firmly based on reliable information in its possession, or did the government dress it up, embroider or otherwise misrepresent it in order to gain public support for the war?
On David and Tom Kelly
The affair of The Kellys, Tom and David. Likeliest scenario: Dr Kelly did make allegations as reported by Gilligan, but was forced to deny it by threats to his job and possibly pension. Unfortunate that this affair diverts attention from more serious questions about the real reasons for the attack on Iraq.
Sentencing
the end, we hope, of the Home Secretary’s power to keep people in jail longer than the judges think necessary;
Michael Meacher & The Summit
allegedly dropping a highly competent Environment Minister from the team for an Environment conference.
Attacking Tony Blair through Cherie
Cherie Blair’s comment on suicide bombers seemed to me (and many others) perfectly unobjectionable; and now that it has at long last become quite unacceptable to treat married women as mere appendages of their husbands (however exalted), I can’t believe that people are still saying that she has no right to express her own opinions on whatever subject she likes without being in any way inhibited by the possibility of not following the government’s or party’s line