Posted: December 2010
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Posted: December 2010
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Can you imagine any leader less like Jesus Christ than Pope Benedict XVI? OK, Kim Jong-il is a shoo-in for a pathological psychotic seamlessly slipping on the inheritance of Stalin, Mao, and Hitler, Ahmadinedjad is nuts and dangerous, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko is getting some bad press at the moment,..
Posted: December 2010
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Somehow I failed to catch the short article A Very British Deceit in the September issue of the New York Review of Books, written by the superlative QC, Philippe Sands. I have now caught up...
Posted: December 2010
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Street violence has undermined the cause of students protesting against tuition fees. This is a tragedy because their principle is just and right...
Posted: December 2010
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The Guardian today: “Conservatives promised to run ‘pro-American’ regime”; they go on to describe the “humiliating detail” of what the Americans describe as the UK’s “paranoid fears” about the special relationship...
Posted: December 2010
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To the irreverent many Julian Assange has managed to retain the moral high ground. Yes, there’s lots of governmental huffing and puffing and there are even the ridiculous few who, with hyperbolic rhetoric, say he has blood on his hands and want him hunted down and killed – probably quite a number of them in quite a few countries, although it takes rabid American red neck politicians actually to voice that blood lust without any sense of irony...