If, whilst reading the reports about any EU negotiation, one ever comes across the words “French President Jacques Chirac praised the British Prime Minister” then it’s a pretty fair bet that Tony Blair has, once again, fucked up utterly.
It seems to be that kidnapping “important” foreigners (i.e. North Americans and Europeans and not just Turkish truck drivers) is big in the news from Iraq again. A German archaeologist called Susanne Osthoff has been kidnapped and Spiegel, at least, is describing it as “Merkel’s first big test“.
In the absence of the KSK finding out […]
Lots of people are starting to pick up on this letter at the CEP Blog from Terry White of the Communications Unit of the Labour Party:
Dear Correspondent,
Thank you for your email.
Neither the Labour Party nor the Labour Government are pursuing the policy towards England or the English that you claim.
England, as opposed to Britain, has […]
In the incoming statistics I noted a link coming from the “Top 40 Conservative European English Speaking Blogs”. It’s a trifle disturbing for someone who once stood as the communist candidate in the “general election” when I was at school. I think it’s because, being English I associate the idea of “being conservative” with (and […]
“The tactic involves police marksmen shooting a suspected suicide bomber in the head with no warning to stop them from detonating their device. It was developed as part of Operation Kratos, the Yard’s strategy to counter suicide terrorists.”
My emphasis. Fair enough. If that’s the best way to stop a suicide bomber, I wouldn’t want to […]
The final reading of the ID Cards bill passed with a majority of 25 yesterday. Mr. Nosemonkey as well as Andrew and John are more than a tad aggrieved at the number of Conservative MPs who didn’t bother turning up to vote against this nasty piece of authoritarian legislation.
What surprised me more were the Labour […]
