On the need for us all, especially in the EU, to resist Professor Glennon’s demand in Foreign Affairs that we all recognise the failure and lapse of the Charter rules on use of force, now the most important issue facing the world; need to re-admit the US into the international community.
The awesome implications of the new American doctrine of the right to overthrow repressive governments of other countries, contrary to “the supreme law” of the US
Iraq – pace the Attorney-General, the US-UK attack was illegal (our second illegal war under Mr Blair)
Once again I have to say I’m sorry that this is the first new entry in Ephems for several weeks, indeed months. It has taken even my hi-tech son and his arcane skills this amount of time to re-establish the ability to upload fresh material to the web site. However, I’m back at last, hoping I haven’t permanently lost too many previously loyal and regular visitors during the closure.
Just time to scribble a few notes before J. and I go off tomorrow for three weeks on our third cruise — this time to the Mediterranean, the Dardanelles and the Black Sea (including Yalta as in Conference and Odessa as in Steps), stopping off at Istanbul among other places on the way. I’ll try to write a cruise diary on the laptop as we go along and put it on the web site when we get back. The diary of our last, all-too-eventful cruise last year is a reminder of what can easily go wrong during a life on the ocean wave. Better luck this time, we hope.
