Category: Politics

I got a bog-standard reply from my MP this morning regarding the Stand campaign against ID cards. Still at least it got registered, so power to the people. There also seems to be some indication that there might be a little backing down on the part of the Home Office, with Lord Falconer not quite…

Tony Blair has been facing the Commons Liaison Committee this morning, and is quoted as saying that it was “inevitable” that Al-Qaeda would attack Britain at some point. I don’t doubt that to be honest. But we can help ourselves by not blithely following Bush into a pointless war that’s certain to create more problems…

Resistance to the impending war on Iraq seems to be growing at about the same rate as the British Army is arriving in the Middle East. Yesterday more troop movements were announced, with one quarter of the British Army now in the process of being sent into the area. This makes it the biggest buildup…

Good to see that the weekend’s protests against going to war are beginning to be recognised in the media. The NY Times had this, while I noticed it high on CNN’s scope. In Britain, it seems as though February 15 could still be quite a big deal.

Maybe that’s a bit of an overstatement, but Blair is sticking to his guns over taking us into war. He told the press conference today that Saddam should disarm, and seems certain the UN Arms Inspectors will find something. Whether Hans Blix finds anything or not, I don’t know, but it seems that something or…

Get over to Stand to register your interest in ID Cards. The Home Office seem to think that everyone wants them and their consultation is nearly up. Tell them what you think.

Latin still has so much to offer us. Today the poet laureate, Andrew Motion, published a new poem on the front page of The Guardian. “Causa Belli” translates as “causes, motives or pretexts of war”: CAUSA BELLI by Andrew Motion They read good books, and quote, but never learn a language other than the scream…

So let me just see if I have this straight. If Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, the US can invade. And if he doesn’t, then he’s lying and we can invade. Hmm. Unsurprisingly he says he hasn’t.

Robert Fish argues in The Independent, that we’re being suckered into going to war. Very persuasive arguement too – look out for the “drubbing” of UN inspectors to determine when we’re likely to see the war.

Just got back from The Roundhouse in Camden where I saw Michael Moore Live. I know that I seem to be harping on about Michael Moore quite a lot at the moment, but you just can’t escape from the man right now. Bowling for Columbine opened properly this weekend, his book Stupid White Men is…

Well it looks like the Republicans are going to have an easy ride for the next couple of years, with a reasonably good win in last night’s mid-terms. Let’s just hope that the Democrats can come up with a credible candidate in time for the election in 2004. Isn’t it about now that those with…

I think I’m on some kind of politics “kick” at the moment. I don’t know whether it’s because I watched three episodes of The West Wing at the weekend (catching up – and discovering that if I record the late night repeat on E4, I get it commercial free), just reading about IDS and the…