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Sharing authority with the UN?
More questions on the future of Iraq. Will the US accept the implications of sharing authority with the UN?
The trauma of moving
The traumas involved in moving from one’s sizeable home of 26 years to a smaller one unable to accommodate a lifetime’s detritus. Never again!
Ulrika Jonsson
Why the malicious media attacks on Ulrika Jonsson when reliable witnesses testify to her charm and decency?
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.
The Security Council and the world community
On the need for us all, especially in the EU, to resist Professor Glennon’s demand in Foreign Affairs that we all recognise the failure and lapse of the Charter rules on use of force, now the most important issue facing the world; need to re-admit the US into the international community.
The US and regime change
The awesome implications of the new American doctrine of the right to overthrow repressive governments of other countries, contrary to “the supreme law” of the US