Blair yesterday was given the title of honorary paramount chief by the people of Sierra Leone. In this picture, he’s being draped in a cermonial robe. Well, he may look slightly stupid but he doesn’t look nearly as stupid as a certain US President filmed dancing and beating a drum with Africans a month ago.
Archive of entries posted on May 2007
Please don’t stone me
I’m sorry, but I have to put up a link to this op-ed piece by…drumroll please…Fidel Castro. Please, if you’re from the US, don’t blacklist me or order my exile from the country. Just be open-minded and read the piece. It’s quite short. The main reason I am posting it is the math Castro uses [...]
Don’t let them in, never let them in…
I’ve come across an excellent article in this month’s issue of Foreign Affairs. It’s not actually an article, per se, rather it is a review of a recent book. The points made, however, are well worth a read. The summary is
Little-known heroes of the Holocaust were the rare diplomats who defied their superiors’ orders and [...]
Mitt Romney, AKA Blabbering Bush Jr
I’m still learning about all of the Presidential candidates both Republican and Democrat. I don’t admit to knowing a lot about him except that he’s the former conservative governor of Massachusetts, a rather liberal state that was the first to allow gay marriage a few years ago. What I’ve learned today is that he’s quite [...]
Further evidence that the US is going to go after Iran
The BBC is currently running this on its breaking news ticker. I know it was broadcast by Iran so the question remains, can we trust it? But nonetheless Bush identified Iran as part of the ‘axis of evil’ so it would make perfect sense to me that spying on Iran has occurred especially within the [...]
Who aren’t you going to call? A London Ambulance
I picked up a free London Lite newspaper on my way home last night because my other preferred free Metro had gotten slightly soaked in the pub mopping up a drink. I came across a rather shocking ‘article’ with the headline “Ambulances get £38 to NOT go to hospital.� It claimed that the London Ambulance [...]
Axis of Evil vs Evil Trio
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Britain, Israel and the US an ‘Evil Trio’ today. See the article here. I just find it kind of funny. So, the US has the Axis of Evil which is Iraq, Iran and North Korea and now several years later an Islamist cleric has taken to calling Britain, Israel [...]
Proud to be unpatriotic
Ok, before anyone goes reporting me to the FBI, let me explain myself. I was reading an article in Guardian today about Congress’s passage of the latest Iraq war funding bill and the fact that neither Clinton nor Obama voted for it when I came across this bit
Both Ms Clinton and Mr Obama faced a [...]
A plank of wood but at least he can read and write
An insightful op-ed piece in the Guardian today by former Vice-President Al Gore. I highly recommend it. If only Florida had gone the other way. If only daddy’s money hadn’t bought the Supreme Court. If only…
Hallelujah, no one else will have to go through what Tim and I did
The British Court of Appeal has today struck down a terrible Home Office rule that seriously affected my husband and I when we were trying to get married in 2005. The law made all people living in Britain who were born outside the EU (so me, as an American) apply to the Home Office for permission [...]