David Davis’s decision to stand down as an MP and fight a by-election on the subject of civil liberties, be it brave, foolish, principled or vain (and it is probably all four), will only become interesting to me in the unlikely event that it resolves some of those unanswered questions raised during the debate over [...]
Saturday 8th September 2007
I bet he’s furious. After three long years he finally psyches himself up to do his first television address in ages, intoning his beautifully crafted and meticulously rehearsed prose, so to spread fear and unease in the hearts of the infidels and apostates; and what is the reaction? No one even has the common decency [...]
I was depressed to hear Alan West state over the weekend that the war against terror “will take 10 to 15 years” to complete, if we all just knuckle down. No, I wasn’t depressed because 15 years seems like a long time – in fact it seems like no time at all to rid the world [...]
The Stockwell shooting was a tragic event, and people are understandably discussing where this leaves the “Shoot to Kill” policy for dealing with suicide bombers. The problem with much of the comment I have read and heard on this matter is that many seem to have jumped to their conclusions the moment they heard the [...]
Yesterday’s leader in the Telegraph was full of righteous indignation about “the ‘buts’”; people who were “lining up to suggest that the (London) bombers had been forced into their terrible actions by the policies pursued by our own government”. It continues
The idea that Iraq - or even Palestine, a cause notoriously ignored by Arab and [...]
Now a week has passed, is it okay to use the London bombs to make a political point? I would say not, that it is never appropriate to use such a tragedy to advance your political opinion, but we do, all the time. We comment on events to illustrate why our view of the world [...]
I have just been watching the Breakfast programme on BBC1, and they have a reporter in Leeds, where it appears three of the four London bombers originated. During the course of his report(which you can watch here) Graham Satchell says he has been speaking to neighbours in the streets surrounding the houses raided by police [...]
Via The Sharpener
WE DEFY TERRORISM
We pledge to assemble in London in a public demonstration of respect to the victims of the July 7 atrocity, defiance of the murderers who carried it out
and solidarity with the people of London.
This pledge was started by the Sharpener group blog, and is being hosted on Pledgebank.
To sign it, go [...]
For the second day running, London is the main story across the world’s headlines; so congratulations to the terrorists for that.
Congratulations also for leaving some husbands without wives, some children without mothers, and perhaps some parents childless. Some of the mourning may even be from the bombers’ own families. Well done.
What else have they achieved? [...]
The BBC is screening one of its adverts at the moment promoting their current affairs documentaries, Panorama and Whistleblower. I haven’t seen Whistleblower before, but the clip they are showing makes it pretty obvious what it will be about. We see a BBC journalist on board a plane, explaining how easily she has managed to [...]