Category: News

Well surprise, surprise. The “mobile labs” that coalition forces found are not quite that. They’re for manufacturing hydrogen for barrage balloons. Somewhat less harmful. I look forward to Blair apologising for saying otherwise.

Good to see that the Burmese (never Myanmar) are still up to their old tricks, holding Aung San Suu Kyi in “protective custody”.

As we learn that the Americans have caputered Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi deputy prime minister, we must begin to wonder where in the world he’s likely to be held. And Guantanamo Bay seems the likeliest destination. The front page of this morning’s Guardian carries a report that the Americans are shamefully holding children they captured…

I simply don’t understand why it’s happening. I can understand a good deal of the looting of public buildings, palaces and the like. By why was the National Museum destroyed. Every so often I think about the works that were lost for all time in Library of Alexandria. Somehow the destruction of libraries and museums…

So Baghdad has “fallen”. We got the no doubt iconic image of Saddam’s statue being torn down (in fact it made fascinating viewing as the TV news channels covered it all afternoon). There is still the question of where Saddam is. I can see him being on the run for quite some time. I can…

Now I don’t doubt that it’s pretty awful that captured US soldiers are being paraded around on TV, but quoting the Geneva Convention not allowing prisoners to be put on TV seems just a tad rich considering that last week, I seem to remember seeing Iraqis surrendering and being searched by British soldiers. There certainly…

It continues, and somehow the TV news coverage enthralls and disappoints at the same time. It does strike me that correspondents have far too little time to actually do any reporting rather than pieces to camera. Sky has poor David Chater reporting live practically around the clock. Last night there were a few explosions in…

Well obviously less than two hours after I wrote my last entry, the war really did start. Albeit in an unexpected way. It seems as though the Americans are going directly after Saddam. And there was me thinking that they had some kind of law about deliberately killing another head of state? (Second question down,…

No war just yet – but it can surely only be a matter of time. The B52s are still in Britain, so I’d say that the onslaught won’t start tonight.

Although I knew that the Correspondent programme I was talking about yesterday was delayed by 24 hours, I hadn’t realised the storm of protest its movement had generated. This article in today’s Guardian details the calls and emails. I’ve got to say that it was very strong programme that just shows the lack of true…

I’m not too sure what to think about the firemen’s strike that we’re enduring just now. On the one hand, I certainly wouldn’t want to endure a fire just now – but then I never would. And it has certainly caused me some inconvenience today, with the tube operating a far more restricted service than…

Well Michael Moore’s response to the (now captured) sniper attacks in the Washington area reflects my own. Although I fell asleep during the course of the programme, I tried to watch last night’s NBC News on CNBC Europe last night, and was that an eye opener. The programme had, I think, EIGHT correspondents scattered around…

A bit uncomfortable this, but like a previous piece I wrote about the recent Cambridgeshire child murders, I feel this needs something to be said. Today is obviously a year on from some of the most terrible scenes that many people have ever witnessed. Thousands of people lost their life in the various attacks in…