Monthly Archives: January 2004

WMD

January 24th, 2004 | Posted in General

I guess I just don’t get the controversy over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq.
Firstly, there was a period of several months before the UK and the US went to war with Saddam when he was warned of the pending action, when he had broken UN Resolution 1440 and when WMD was [...]

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Laws banning headscarves in France

January 20th, 2004 | Posted in General

For those who are not yet aware, France is implementing a controversial new law to ban women and girls from wearing headscarves in public schools. And of course this is being taken as some kind of prejudice against the Muslim religion. (Everyone is out to get them, remember?)
Please don’t get me wrong here [...]

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Howard & Howard?

January 12th, 2004 | Posted in General

Well we must confront now an obvious favourite in a presidential candidate in the USA - Howard Dean for the Democrats. Today’s Guardian article on Dean is written by an old acquaintance who does not know him as a left-leaning liberal, but instead a pragmatist, who asseses each issue individually and attempts to make [...]

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"In your own interest, learn to love the nanny state"

January 3rd, 2004 | Posted in General

Sorry? I should learn to “love” being nannied? By the state?
Tessa Jowell’s article in yesterday’s Times is disturbing. Not because I didn’t think people actually held views like this, but it is disturbing that this lady is the Culture Secretary (no, I don’t know what that is either) and a senior member [...]

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Michael Howard: REMEMBER THAT NAME!

January 3rd, 2004 | Posted in General

Because he may just be the only hope, at this point, that the United Kingdom has against the disjointed, lefty politics of Tony Blair. The Guardian just about had a cow yesterday when the Leader of the Opposition published his ‘I Believe’ document - a move which set out the principals which would inform [...]

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