This is not the first time, I’ve taken a risk by posting on my blog (29 June 2006: Warning, reading this blog may get you arrested.) but here we go. This morning, Bilal Zaheer Ahmad was charged with offences under the odious Terrorism Act for posting a list of those MPs who voted for the …
Tag Archive: iraq
Nov
17
2010
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Nov
09
2010
Bush admits to use of torture
[The Independent: Bush says waterboarding saved UK lives] In an interview on NBC, to promote his memoirs, George W. Bush has admitted to the use of the torture technique known as waterboarding. He asserted that it was not actually torture because, in his words, “a lawyer said so”. Well, Dubya, there are plenty of lawyers …
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Jul
27
2010
The Seven Link Challenge
Various people I follow on Twitter (RevdLesley, TheChurchMouse) have responded to the Seven Link Challenge – which is supposed to improve one’s blogging. There are seven categories of posts and you have to name one for each. I’ve been blogging for a long time (getting on towards ten years now, started on Advogato in 2001) …
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Apr
08
2010
The only party to get it right on defence
The BBC have a really handy at-a-glance guide to where all the parties are on the big policy areas. I was looking at the summation of the three main parties’ positions on defence. Labour “… ended active UK military involvement in Iraq …”A quick reminder that it was of course Labour who took the country …
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Mar
25
2009
How independent will Iraq inquiry be?
[Ref] David Milliband has said that the UK government will hold an inquiry (which the Lib Dems rightly say must be held in public) into the Iraq war once all UK combat troops have left the country. The thing is, does anyone really believe such an inquiry – even if it is a public one …
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Jan
15
2009
I find myself surprised
I find myself surprised to be agreeing with David Miliband today – to an extent at least. Writing in the Guardian today, he says that the use of the term War on Terror is wrong and serves to galvanise the will of terrorists. It does more than this in fact, it serves as a recruiting …
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Jan
08
2009
12 days to go…
…until we’re freed from the tyranny of the Bush regime. To mark this occasion, the BBC has compiled a list of the best Bushisms – the ways in which the outgoing moron president has got his tongue in a twist. They range from the simply funny (“at the whim of a hat”) to the startlingly …
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