“British policy fails because we behave too much like an ineffective old Jeeves, even when Bertie Wooster has gone berserk.” By Timothy Garton Ash. Britain’s Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, responded to my article about possible British complicity in the torture of Binyam Mohamed (Thus passim) with a reader’s letter in the Guardian, disputing its accuracy. [...]
Tag Archives: George W Bush
Ignoring India's poverty is a recipe for nuclear Armageddon
December 19, 2008 – 3:14 pm
Thank God for George Bush. He laughs in the face of fear as he gives more nukes to the country with the most hungry people in it. And the funny bit is that despite parts of the American Christian right actually jockeying for Armegeddon, he probably achieved all this by mistake, and in the process he [...]
UPDATE: Iraqi democracy in action, as predicted by THUS
December 16, 2008 – 1:42 pm
Unfortunately, my playful prediction that the Iraqi authorities would meet out summary justice to the shoe thrower was justified, as this BBC report illustrates: Shoe thrower ‘beaten in custody’. Apart from demonstrating absolute contempt for any civilised behaviour, this shows that George W Bush was either powerless to influence the actions of his ‘hosts’ in Bagdhad, [...]
Would you take a shoe for the President?
December 15, 2008 – 11:19 am
. . . . the answer is clearly no. Where was the Kevin Costner figure willing to throw himself in front of the Commander-in-Chief when enraged Iraqi journalist Muntadhar-al-Zaidi from Al Bagdhadiya TV, threw his loafers at George W Bush, ruining his latest ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech to the ungrateful Eyerakki people? Luckily, W is the mother of all [...]
European Court rules UK DNA database an abuse of Human Rights
December 5, 2008 – 11:51 am
By John J Kelly On December 4 2008 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the practice of holding DNA samples of more than 1 million UK citizens, some as young as 10 years old, who have no criminal record but who have been investigated in the course of police enquiries, is contrary to Article [...]
The spoils of famine
November 24, 2008 – 8:42 pm
Thanks to Jack Roberts of Big Idea and the Herald Sun for pointing out that Saint Bob Geldof charged $100,000 to speak in Australia recently about ‘the tragedy of world famine.’ Guests weren’t told that it was a paid gig, by no means the first, for Geldof, friend of the man who has done a [...]
God in one ear, Cheney in the other. "W" The Movie.
November 17, 2008 – 8:17 pm
George W Bush comes off lightly in the new biopic, ‘W’ to the dismay of pinko liberals everywhere. Oliver Stone was scripted to serve up a tale of a neocon Golem, spoiled rich son of a former CIA Director turned one-term President whose legacy was that he did not annex Iraq. He fixed the polls in [...]