Category: Politics

Some embarrassment for the government in the last 24 hours. On Monday, the government published another dossier detailing attempts that the Iraqis are said to have made to hide their weapons of mass destruction. Well last night it turns out that this document was something of a cut and paste job based on a graduate…

Some embarrassment for the government in the last 24 hours. On Monday, the government published another dossier detailing attempts that the Iraqis are said to have made to hide their weapons of mass destruction. Well last night it turns out that this document was something of a cut and paste job based on a graduate…

Well Colin Powell has been spending time at the UN presenting the US case for why Iraq should be invaded this very second. I want to see some thorough analysis of this presentation – and presentation it was with lots of graphics and audio clips. There were even some mock-ups of what a mobile chemical…

Now this is something I simply don’t understand. Tony Blair is reported today to still be insisting that the Iraqi regime is somehow (and this is undefined) linked to Al-Qaeda. Now maybe I’m missing something enormously obvious here, but despite Saddam eveninig saying himself in yesterday’s interview, that he’s not linked with them (and if…

These two stories explain my real problem with American society. Obviously the death penalty is really working in Texas, with 295 executions since 1976, and six already this year to date (excluding this one), yet it still ranks as the 14th most dangerous State in the US.

Interesting piece by Michael Cockerill in advance of a programme to be shown on Saturday looking at the ways the media treats politicians, and in turn the way politicians answer their questions. Is it any wonder that people are becoming less and less involved in political debate?

Interesting leader in The Guardian today, pointing out that North Korea may rapidly attain more importance than the Iraqi situation, despite that not being the order the Dubya wants to take them in. I guess the US isn’t exactly keen to get into Korea again.

I rushed home this evening to catch the interview. No not yesterday’s fascinating Jacko documentary with Martin Bashir, but today’s showing of an interview that Tony Benn conducted with Saddam Hussein at the weekend. I can’t pretend it was the most involving interview ever, with sometimes easy questions being lobbed at Saddam, and his ponderous…

There were a couple of fascinating articles in today’s Guardian. Firstly, the cover story of G2 looked at the amount of coverage given to the Space Shuttle explosion in comparison with other stories about peoples’ deaths. All the US networks carried lots of live stories about the story on Saturday, pre-empting usual programming. I must…

Finally the Stop the War March is allowed to use Hyde Park as a meeting point.

Now this really isn’t clever. The planned march in London in February 15, against war in Iraq, has been told that it can’t end in Hyde Park where a rally was planned. Upwards of 500,000 are expected, and so obviously it will need to end somewhere. The reason given is that the park is not…

Thank goodness that at political times like these we have journalists such as Robert Fisk to provide a counter-argument. Today in The Independent he has an article pouring scorn on the feeble parallels that are being made between Saddam Hussein and Hitler. As if this war is nothing to do with oil? Yeah, right. Yesterday,…