It used to be difficult to shut Tony Blair up, especially on the subject of Iraq. Remember his epic war speech to Parliament, when the phrase ‘weapons of mass destruction’ was repeated more than 15 times? Now he only speaks for $400,000 a pop to neocons or lectures the Pope on theology. He might yet [...]
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An open letter to Gordon Brown, saviour of the world's banks, apart from Iceland, the UK and . . .
March 17, 2009 – 12:52 am
As Gordon and Alastair puff out their chests and iron their M+S Let’s Pretend We’re Businessmen suits (made in Indonesia) to host the G20 Global Summit on the global economy, a letter from Steven Katirai, whose Google search reveals him as a capital markets consultant based in the North East of England, has been doing the rounds on [...]
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, or [...]
Now Gordon has spun off to Afghanistan – make that Pakistan (see above)
December 13, 2008 – 5:16 pm
. . . . “I’ll put a girdle about the earth in forty minutes” Puck, Midsummer Night’s Dream
We heard this morning that UK Gordon Brown has broken off his constructive discussions with EU leaders to appear in Afghanistan to mourn the death of four British soldiers, killed in two bomb incidents, one where a 13 [...]
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 [...]