Category Archives: War

This is a priceless moment from the transcript of Michael White’s interview with Tony Blair. It doesn’t just stand up the virtues of Western democracy, free speech, etc. It makes me proud to be British. In what other culture, in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Some of you will have supposed that the idea of sending weapons inspectors to Iraq was to discover if there were any weapons there. Silly you. The Washington Post knows better: Continue reading →

I have been browsing the warhard sites, and as usual end up wondering how they can be writing from or about the same planet as I inhabit. This in particular caught my eye, partly because of its hysterical anti-Europeanism, so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Bill Emmott, the editor of the Economist, has a lucid op-ed in today’s Guardian arguing for the war. The kernel of his argument is that only force, or the wholly convincing threat of overwhelming force, will make Saddam comply with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

But this should be flyposted all over London. Continue reading →

is something you only tell to one person at a time, right? And this blog is such a minority taste that publishing here is, on average, telling fewer than one person at a time. So I’m not really about to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A perfectly wonderful essay by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, about the mid-term elections. It shows that quality of practical, tough-minded optimism which is probably the one thing I love most about America. Continue reading →

Think right now. Continue reading →

of purest frothing righteousness. Here’s a taste: Continue reading →