Category Archives: War

That I have been fumbling to say about the warhards is here Continue reading →

I was there, with wife and daughter; so were a lot of other people: the police reckon 150,000 and this is credible. Estimates of 400,000 from the organisers are not. They are simply plucked out of the air to match … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Who writes the Smallweed column in the Guardian? It reads like Ian Aitken sometimes, sometimes like Paul Routledge. But this week contained one of the most perfect pieces of abuse that I have ever read. Continue reading →

The Daily Telegraph is often the most informative newspaper in England, because the most slanted. This is largely true of the war in Iraq, which the paper wants more even that Ariel Sharon. The leader I have linked to — … Continue reading → Continue reading →

An interesting split is developing in the British right-wing press. The Times and the Telegraph are in favour of war, of course. The Telegraph is being thoroughly consistent. It will always argue for the world to be run by a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Acting dumb and nasty: Nick Denton (moreover, First Tuesday, yes, that Nick Denton) argues that we should invade Iraq to crush Arab millennial dreams. Continue reading →

One of the most absurd of all present day pundits is Victor Davis Hanson, whose theory that there is such a thing as a Western Way of War, which descends from Pericles to Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf, isn’t quite completely bullshit. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There is one thing I simply don’t understand about the war party. Continue reading →

A question asked of Gary Trudeau in the feedback to his Doonesbury site. I especially like the idea that anyone who laughs at Shrub has blood on his hands. It’s as enlightening as being instructed by Waggy Jim that it … Continue reading → Continue reading →