As Owen has pointed out, the real objection to the US-UK extradition agreement is not that the US hasn’t ratified it or that it’s easier for the US to extradite from the UK than vice versa: it’s the agreement’s denial of basic rights and due process to those whom the US wants to extradite [More >>>]
Things are moving fast and becoming increasingly interesting in the affair of the book by Craig Murray, former ambassador in Uzbekistan, the passages deleted from or rewritten in it at the behest of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), and now the FCO's efforts to force Craig to remove from his website the texts and [...]
The Craig Murray controversy resumes with publication of his book (minus quotations from documents to which the FCO objected) and an FCO threat of legal action for breach of copyright (!) unless he removes the texts from the Web [More....]
A few amusing or striking items from this week-end’s press….
In a recent item in Ephems , I reported as a recent news item from the asylum that –
A man called Steve Jago has been arrested in Whitehall for carrying a banner bearing a quotation from George Orwell ("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act") and three copies of [...]
At last a response to my invitation to contribute to a Blairversefest: limericks, clerihews, Haiku, anything about Mr Tony… More, please! [More >>>]
Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winning film, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, is a superb and subtle film with a vital contemporary resonance. Gutter press cries of ‘anti-British!’ should be ignored [More >>>]
Some more news items tending to demonstrate that either the whole world has gone stark, staring mad, or else I have (no comments, thanks: just contribute more evidence) [More >>>]
A message to Carnival, US owners of once-British Cunard and Swan Hellenic, about some of the penalties paid by British customers when an American carnivore gobbles up a whole British species [More >>>]
