Archive for July, 2003
We’ve come a long way
Southern Italy and Northern Scotland were the poorest regions, and the largest recipients of aid, of the old European Union before it expanded to take in new East European members. I have recently been in both Italy and Scotland and have had the opportunity to talk with people who remember how life was in both [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2003 under Misc.
Memory Aid Part 7
Hmm, perjury seems to be establishing itself as a leitmotif…
Posted: July 24th, 2003 under Never forget.
Keeping Perspective 2
When people refer to the “hugely unpopular” war of liberation in Iraq it is worth pointing out the reality.
According to the latest ICM poll 51% of Britons believe the war was justified - three percent more than a month ago.
Among Labour voters 63 percent supported the war and the social class which most supported [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2003 under UK Politics.
Keeping perspective
Good sense and straight thinking on the ‘Blair crisis’ from Polly Toynbee today.
In the real world, Labour has a remarkably resilient leader, likely to win a never-before third term. Keep things in perspective. Whatever Blair’s deficiencies, keeping the Tories out matters most of all for poor pensioners, poor children, schools, hospitals and the low paid.
Another [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2003 under UK Politics.
How long?
How long are the US, UN, EU, UK and others going to stand by and let the slaughter continue in Liberia?
Posted: July 22nd, 2003 under International.
Dutch blogger
I really should have pointed readers to No Cameras sooner than this, given that the blogger Jurjen is a regular contributor to the comments boxes here at Harry’s Place.
Jurjen is Dutch but living in the United States and tends to share a similar outlook on international events to the contributors here. Well worth checking out [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2003 under Blogland.
Who knows why?
David Aaronovitch takes the scapegoaters to task:
Robert Jackson MP knows why Dr David Kelly died. It’s because the BBC delayed too long in admitting that he was the famous source for the Gilligan story. “If the BBC had made this statement while he was alive,” said the Conservative MP, “I believe he would still be [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2003 under UK Politics.
Bush the leftie?
Oliver Kamm- the self-proclaimed “pro-Bush leftie”- is a smart and often perceptive guy. So when he writes, “George W. Bush is truly the president, and soon once more the candidate, of the finest ideals of the liberal Left,” I can only shake my head and wonder if he’s noticed something enormous that I’ve missed.
I don’t [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2003 under Stateside.
Israeli single mothers fight back
Occasionally, when the violence and terrorism let up for awhile, you can get a sense of what Israel would be like if it could exist like any other democratic country.
The current relative quiet on the Israeli-Palestinian front shouldn’t lull anyone into believing that peace is at hand. But it has allowed Israelis to pay a [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2003 under International.
Kelly affair
If you haven’t followed all the details (and I haven’t) George Kerevan’s piece in the Scotsman today seems a reasonable analysis of the Kelly affair.
Tom Watson MP’s take is a calm and considered view from Westminster.
The main news story on the affair today is the Guardian revealing that the BBC turned down a truce offer [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2003 under Stateside.