If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Transport Security Administration oversees safety in the American skies and maintains a list of items you can and cannot take on a plane in the USA. It’s so illogical.
Permitted items include
Screwdrivers up to 7in long
Scissors up to 4in […]

Since the July bombs on the tube, the police have been out in force every morning and evening at Liverpool Street, always with a perky-looking spaniel that seems to appreciate the attention.
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This story appeared on the front page of CNN this afternoon:

And at the same time this one appeared on the front page of the BBC:

That 3,500 member troop increase is an enormous number when you realise that the UK currently has only 850 personnel stationed in the country. They are being sent as part of […]

Why didn’t they just put a big banner over the door to the cinema: ‘Vote Kerry’. Or at least I assume that’s what The Village is about.
The following contains spoilers.
Without giving away the twist at the end, the plot is a fairly simple alegory on the so-called war on so-called terror. The people of a […]

The Voice of America is America’s version of the BBC World Service, but while the World Service manages to produce very balanced output, which is as likely to criticise the UK and its government as it is to promote it, every time I have listened to VOA it has presented a very one-sided pro-US stance. […]

Meanwhile in Downing Street, Tony Blair adds Andrew Gilligan to his Christmas card list.
Or does he?
The government has got pretty much everything it wants in the wake of the Hutton Enquiry: an apology from the BBC, being cleared of ’sexing up’ the report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, validation of its reasons for going […]

There was a day when the politicians would be careful to brand themselves at all times. The Tories would only ever wear blue ties. Labour MPs would always wear red. So what’s going on here, with Tory leader Michael Howard on the left and Tony Blair on the right? Has the BBC been Photoshopping the […]

From Metro:
an academic said yesterday that looters should be shot to deter raiding of Iraq’s achaeological treasures. Prof Elizabeth Stone’s appeal came as it emerged the national museum in Baghdad had lost about ten per cent of its artefacts. ‘I would like to see helicopters shooting bullets so people know there is a real price […]

Problems for Tony Blair:
BBC political editor Andrew Marr says very senior figures “right at the top of Whitehall” no longer believe the weapons [of mass destruction] are likely to be found.
Problems for George Bush:
On Tuesday the White House acknowledged that allegations that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from the African state of Niger were […]

In an unbelievable story in the Sydney Morning Herald an American judge has ruled that
“Iraq provided material support to Osama bin Laden and his terrorist group al-Qaeda for the September 11, 2001, attack and is liable to pay $US104 million … in damages to two victims’ families.”
Whether it is true that Iraq did have a […]