Category Archives: War

I was much struck by the Telegraph’s explanation, in its leader today, of why we are having problems with Muslims: After all, the question of whether it is possible to be a good British Muslim is not a new one. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I didn’t get any reply to my offer of a drink with Nick, perhaps because I teased him about being wrong about the war – nobly wrong, perhaps, wrong from admirable motives – but still completely and utterly shit-faced wrong … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There is a video going around (I’ll not link to it) apparently made by British mercenaries in Iraq. It’s shot out of the back of a moving truck/SUV which is driving down the fast lane of a dust-coloured concrete dual … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the minor consequences of the present catastroophe is that it lets us lose the Cold War in retrospect. I mean that for generations it has been an article of faith among liberals, conservatives, decent socialists, and everyone who … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There is a long plug/interview with Robert Kaplan in the Atlantic Monthly online (not sure if it’s paywalled) which fills me with a soft despair. Here’s why: Instead of the oppressive colonial domination that characterized other empires, Kaplan describes America … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal has come out for torture in its leader on Saturday: “Yet according to many Bush Administration critics, the aggressive and stressful questioning techniques used successfully against the likes of KSM put the U.S. on a slippery … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Call me sentimental but I would like to believe that if Mr Bush and Mr Cheney had actually run for office on a programme of legalising torture, they might have lost the 2000 election. Possibly they had no strong opinions … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Is it old age, or just encroaching sanity that means where once I would have dissolved in wet-farting indignation, this morning, I just laughed, happy and helpless, when I read Victor Davis Hansen’s prescription for the Bush administration: “The key … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You get shown the light in The Orlando Sentinel if you look at it right. Chris Wilson, the man who ran the NTFU board, has been busted by the local police on obscenity charges. This probably doesn’t affect the running … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have done for years is in G2 today. One snag I hadn’t foreseen — the copy was delayed by an hour when it got caught in the company’s spam filter. UPDATE What I originally filed is below the fold … Continue reading → Continue reading →