Category Archives: War

The Daily Mail is running a long and savoury hatchet job on George W. Bush this week, based on a biography published last year in America. Today’s episode has a brisk rehearsal of his business career: failing quite lucratively as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

CNN’s transcript of the final exchange between Richard Reid and his judge is full of miserable unintentional comedy. According the BBC, who should have known better, the high point was when Reid told the judge “Your flag will be brought … Continue reading → Continue reading →

When the Earl pulled out his bloody great tool at tea To do the pageboy wrong, His chaplain cried in incredulity “How long, oh lord, how long!” And so, I suppose, we are meant to cry when we see the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have noticed a new distortion of thought in the British Left: I will call it the Suez Fallacy becasue it appeared to me most clearly in a report on opposition to the war among Labour constituency chairmen. The term … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My old colleague Richard (D.) North just pointed me at a long, but incisive piece by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in the Spectator. The historical point of the argument was to show how many Jews had been anti-Zionist in the early years … Continue reading → Continue reading →

On the other hand, he’s got the coming year quite right: “Blair – again – is doing the right thing. Leadership means telling people what they don’t want to hear. It’s not just possible there will be a terrorist attack … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Andrew Sullivan has a bash at the Foreign Office, on the back of this Telegraph report. It proves, he says, that the Foreign Office will always blame the Jews. But it seems to me to prove something more worrying: the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s nice to see a liberal who can manage real, informed contempt, as opposed to the smug and ignorant sort typified by Richard Dawkins calling Bush “An illiterate buffoon.” Here’s Joshua Michael Marshall: “It’s one thing to be a hawk … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You have to read this, from the Wall Street Journal, a little carefully to discover that the spine of the argument is three good reasons against the war: Continue reading →

is worth a hell of a sight more than 10,000 words. Danny O’Brien has just place on the web a photograph of some of the forms he must fill in for a permanent US residence permit. (Caution. It is a … Continue reading → Continue reading →