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A question Was Winston too drunk to watch TV during the 80's? Because that's the only explanation I can think of for him thinki...

A manifesto for liberal internationalists Timothy Garton Ash has what is effectively a manifesto for liberal internationalists in the Gu...

Still busy As you can tell from this morning's post, I'm still busy thinking about my essay. But it should be done by tonight, ...

Sheep and trousers People objecting to the hoax butchering of Shrek the sheep on Eating Media Lunch on the grounds that "it's ...

Build the other dam The loonies are now trying to exploit the fading electricity transmission crisis to ram through the Dobson hydro ...

Stupid, stupid, stupid As one of his final acts in office, US viceroy Paul Bremer has excluded Moqtada Sadr and his followers from stan...

Good news for a change The Italians last night captured the mastermind behind the Madrid atrocity, and the Belgians rounded up a cell a...

Victory to the Iraqis The US will get their resolution , but the Iraqi government will get to be consulted over major military operation...

Busy Bloggage will probably be light for the next few days, as I try and get words out of my head and onto paper for an assignment.

Shocking familiarity A small part of the BBC's D-Day docudrama (on Prime on Sunday night) covered on the story of a British commando...

Where it leads A story I missed a few weeks ago shows both the ultimate destination of the Bush administration's doctrine of unfette...

Princeps legibus solutus est The Pentagon just keeps on leaking. The latest is classified legal advice to Donald Rumsfeld contending t...

A GE project the Greens should support Genetically modifying crops to make petrol While it's not a solution to our dependance on...

David Slack's book, Bullshit, Backlash and Bleeding Hearts , is due out on Tuesday. And meanwhile I'm condemned to wade through a...

Bishop a bigot, film at eleven I'm struggling to find anything intersting to say about Bishop Vercoe's bigotry . Really - a Bis...

Calling a spade a spade A report by the UN's Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights has for the first time called a spade a spade...

Guess I need to make another job-ad First, the Director of Central Intelligence . Then, his Deputy Director of Operations . Who...

Shouldn't I be doing something else? As preparation for another assignment, I'm considering the ways in which Labour has retreat...

Risky The Greens have decided not to stand any electorate candidates next election . It's a risky strategy, but one that makes cl...

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