Afternoon session at Chilcot. So it all went wrong when those pesky Iran and Al Qaeda outsiders got involved. Even though there was a 911 issue. But Al Qaeda? And the criminality! Who’d have guessed the blighters would have fought back? Blow me down, is that what happens when a country’s infrastructure is allowed to […]
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What’s the chance of the Chilcott Iraq Inquiry arriving at a satisfactory objective conclusion? Andy Beckett asks in The Guardian if the inquiry can do a better job than past whitewashes. Then there are the inquisitors themselves. None of them is a lawyer, despite the Iraq war being a minefield of legal issues. All are
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Has this man no shame? Just when you think he can’t get any worse, Tony Blair hits rock bottom and breaks through to a whole new bottom no-one knew anything about. Our former British Prime Minister dons fishnets and high heels and makes yet another tranche of loot, this time hundreds of thousands from giving
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Another picture in the frame this week. News of Gordon Brown and his offer to loan Barack Obama the painting that inspired Barry in his youth — Hope by Victorian English artist George Frederic Watts. It would have hung in the Oval Office except it’s indelibly associated with preacher Jeremiah Wright, the man who introduced
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The press is telling us that the Haitians are primitives to be feared, hence the slowness in distributing food. But I was looking at this picture when it dawned on me what I was seeing. I’m looking at the photograph of 15 year-old Fabienne Geismar shot dead by police for stealing three pictures. See the
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The Haiti earthquake disaster relief effort has turned into a scandal. While the desperate survivors wait to be dug out of the rubble, the media depicts them as savages, aid piles up undistributed at the airport, an army of bureaucrats fill in forms when they venture out of their safe zones, and an army of
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