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The news is full of the foiled airliner attack plot in the UK. The possible attack has as usual been followed up by an all-out assault on common sense and…

A friend sends me today a link to David Byrne’s blog. 

Byrne’s latest entry is about ultra-Christian, ultra-right wing community schools that conflate the Bible with a political agenda. Are…

Three weeks into the war in the Lebanon and the UN has finally agreed, after some intense wrangling about the specifics, to prevaricate some more. The process in the UN…

Perhaps. Yesterday I mocked the Israeli Injustice Minister Haim Ramon for suggesting the world had given its permission for Israel’s campaign in Lebanon. Lo! Today the US State Department dismissed…

Yesterday in this space, I speculated that Israel’s apparently deliberate and definitely fatal targeting of UN personnel in Lebanon might have been designed to force their withdrawal. Today, Australia announced…

In another demonstration of iron restraint that BBC online reader Steve Gross (see below) would have to be proud of, Israeli armed forces have killed four UN personnel. The attack…

One individual, a Steve Gross from the US quoted on the BBC website tells us, “Israel is acting with tremendous restraint, were they targeting civilian populations there would be thousands…

As Israeli warplanes batter Lebanon and the army gathers on the border ready to invade, thousands are leaving the country. Ships from several countries are lining up in Lebanese waters…

Sixteenth century French mystic Nostradamus was well known to be a football fan. Recent research has revealed that he has predicted the results of the 2006 World Cup, right down…

I just noticed that Blair is an anagram of Liar B. Which suggests a retailer of second-rate porky pies. ‘Blair’ is not an actual anagram of ‘war criminal’ but it…