Israeli brutality is rightly condemned, but with Hamas as government of Palestine there seems no longer any basis for a settlement with Israel and little chance even of a truce [More >>>]
The Financial Times reveals that the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Microsoft have ganged up to drive Tony Blair from office — official [More >>>]
Internal evidence suggests the hand of the CIA in the FCO’s advice on rendition to No. 10 [More >>>]
Phil Edwards of ‘Existing Actually’ has resurrected a striking poem from his younger days, ‘Our Infant’, addressed to Lenin and meditating on Lenin’s ‘infantile disorder’ [More >>>]
Ruth Kelly might have won more respect and saved herself much unnecessary (and objectionable) work if she had been prepared to defend a fair and defensible system against ignorant and hysterical attack [More >>>]
Brokeback Mountain is beautiful and moving and I hated it. King Kong is marvellous [More >>>]
“Lord Crickhowell also made a coruscating attack” – or did he? [More >>>]
The latest appointment of the British ambassador to the Holy See breaks with tradition in two significant ways, and has aroused strong objections in the Vatican [More >>>]
The hysterical witch-hunt over rabid child abusers being cleared in their thousands by the Education Secretary to infest our schools (according to the media) should be treated with scepticism [More >>>]
Some random thoughts on current politics and other things {More >>>]
