Blair, Blunkett and Booth
Sunday, July 31st, 2005As Tony Blair lends the Home Office back to David Blunkett, a public dialogue between Tony and Cherie Booth QC is developing about the role of the judges in the effort to counter terrorism.
Entries in July, 2005
Blaming those who can’t blame the bombers
Sunday, July 31st, 2005It’s refreshing to read an eloquent denunciation of those on a recent Question-Time programme who sought to blame everyone except the bombers for the London bombings
Ethiopian famine relief: old myths demolished (2)
Sunday, July 31st, 2005David Rieff’s original attack on Live Aid and the Ethiopian famine relief effort in 1984-86 appeared in Prospect magazine. Prospect has now published my letter (and two others) rebutting Rieff’s mean and unfounded charges.
Shoot to Kill, and other remedies?
Sunday, July 31st, 2005The government’s proposed new measures in response to 7/7 are surprisingly moderate, subject to scrutiny of the details; and the police, on the available evidence so far, had no real alternative to the action they took in killing the innocent (as it turned out) brazilian at Stockwell tube station.
More on the London bombings
Sunday, July 10th, 2005E-mails flying around in the last few days have been polluting the air with glib denunciations of Tony Blair for supposedly having precipitated the London bombings of 7/7 by joining the Americans in invading and occupying Iraq.
London’s 7/7
Thursday, July 7th, 2005A nasty business in London.
