The torture interviews
Friday, December 16th, 2005Brian’s BBC interviews about the Law Lords’ ruling against the admissibility of evidence got by torture can be heard here [More >>>]
Entries in December, 2005
Caribbean cruise diary
Friday, December 16th, 2005A two-part, light-hearted diary of a P&O cruise to the Caribbean in November 2005 [More >>>]
The home secretary’s disingenuous response to the torture ruling
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005My letter in today’s Guardian seeks to expose the misleading and perverse character of the home secretary’s reaction to the law lords’ ban on torture-tainted evidence [More >>>]
Inequality, opportunity and meritocracy
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005Our prime minister totally misunderstands the dire implications of untrammelled ‘equality of opportunity’ and a meritocratic Britain [More >>>]
A dialogue about plurals and other horrors
Monday, December 12th, 2005An exchange of messages about some linguistic howlers [More >>>>]
Harold Pinter’s Nobel lecture
Monday, December 12th, 2005Pinter at his most savage, eloquent and quirky in receiving his Nobel prize [More >>>]
Finding excuses for torture
Saturday, December 10th, 2005Devising unlikely scenarios and finicky definitions to justify torture is a shameful and unacceptable activity [More >>>]
The Law Lords on torture: magnificent, but for the worm in the apple
Friday, December 9th, 2005A splendid judgment by the law lords banning the use of torture-derived evidence in UK courts, but imposing a test for determining whether torture has probably been used which in practice can never be satisfied: no wonder the home office is happy! [More >>>]
Guardian on Ephems on Sir Ian Blair
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005The Guardian’s daily blog excerpts includes an old item of mine from last August [More >>>>]
Caribbean cruise pictures
Thursday, December 1st, 2005Selected pictures from a Caribbean cruise on P&O Aurora, Nov. 2005 [More>>>>]
