Was HM Government ‘complicit’ in torture? No, says MI6 head Sir John Scarlett. A slightly more nuanced line comes from Ministers David Miliband and Alan Johnson: Yet intelligence from overseas is critical to our success in stopping terrorism. All the most serious plots and attacks in the UK in this […]
It has come to this. I am transformed from a hoplessly progressive Guardian reader into hopelessly progressive Guardian writer. My Response to Timothy Garton Ash’s recent article about Michal Kaminski has appeared. The article as I drafted it for the paper has been tweaked by Guardian HQ in certain respects for unclear […]
Update: welcome Iain Dale readers. Loftily principled Edward McMillan-Scott (MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber) weighs in on the Kaminski saga: On July 14, in Strasbourg, I stood and won against a Polish MEP, Michal Kaminski, for the post of Vice-President of the European Parliament, because he symbolised the rise […]
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has made an extraordinary intervention in the controversy about the Conservatives and Michal Kaminski: "The British public rightly judge politicians by their actions. So far, they haven’t had much to go on with David Cameron. But this reversion to the right-wing extremes of his own party […]
Timothy Garton Ash (whom I know and respect of old) bangs on again about the UK Conservative Party’s engagement in the newly formed European Conservatives and Reformists formation within the European Parliament: The farce of David Cameron’s Latvian legion becomes more ridiculous by the day. Last month, I deplored the […]
Is belatedly linked to by me here, hosted by Cabalamat. Look out for Prodicus and a massive array of adjectives on the EU as a Stalinist plot, a point of view unappealing to one of his commenters who says it is instead a fascist plot. And Raedwald looks at liberating road traffic […]
My young issue of the non-distaff side had a turbulent upbringing. Between 1996 and 2003 they lived in Russia, Croatia, Bosnia, USA, England, Serbia and Poland. Seven countries in some seven years. This took its toll in educational terms. In Sarajevo they were among the first intake in the newly […]
In the UK most political letters announcing the writer’s resignation say what they have to say, perhaps with a feigned or even real sentence or two of respect, then stop. Some go into some vital policy detail, albeit in thinly coded and very general terms. See Geoffrey Howe’s letter to Margaret […]
Is hosted by Mr Eugenides, holding back his rage (or not). Here is one link to another pseudoynmous blogger: an English magistrate giving us insights on the law in practice. And there are some gruesome things happening in Norwich… And Unmitigated England rebukes Sir Paul and pigs out, as it were, on […]
Let’s leave it to Devil’s Kitchen to tear to shreds the latest utterances of the government in its plans to spend money it does not have on even more profligate scales than now. Let’s instead focus on something missed by D’s K in the offending Telegraph article. A juicy eggcorn: […]
