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WMD
Another great report this morning on the Today programme, detailing some of the serious doubts being aired over Iraq’s having Weapons of Mass Destruction. The security services are still leaking that they were unhappy with the publicity being given to the so called mobile biological laboratories, and there seem to have been a number of…
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Corriere della Sera
Last Thursday, the Italian newspaper’s editor resigned “for personal reasons” in what was seen as a political decision from Berlusconi. Today, the paper doesn’t appear on the streets of Italy, but does seem to appear on the web.
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Al-Jazeera Exlusive
Last night BBC2 showed this documentary in the Correspondent series, going behind the scenes at Al-Jazeera, the Arabic news TV station, during the Gulf War. There’d been a lot of controversy over this screening seeing as it featured footage (albeit pixilated) of dead British and American soldiers that Al-Jazeera had screened. The Sun lead –…
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State of Play
I’m quite enjoying State of Play on BBC1, or in particular, BBC4, since they show the following week’s episodes, and once you get caught in that cycle, you’re not going to leave it. The fact that it stars both Kelly McDonald and Polly Walker, was always going to make it must see, but it’s a…
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MTAmazon
Well I did have a bit of a play around with MTAmazon, trying to replace US links with UK ones, but unsuccessfully. The whole Plugin is fairly small, and despite the fact that I didn’t understand how it was all put together, I did find the references to the XML that Amazon supplies, and the…
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The Joy of Torrents
So I’m late in the day. But I read about Bit Torrents recently, and finally got around to getting them working at home this weekend. Consequently I’m a couple of episodes ahead of the rest of the country with 24 (well it’ll be one episode after tonight’s is aired). Today’s actually been very frustrating, with…
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Government Screws Us Again
The ID Card fiasco continues with the Government claiming that all the responses sent via Stand were considered to be one response. See here and here. Here is my own response to my MP. Dear Ms Joan Ryan, I’m enormously disappointed to learn that feedback that I gave in my own capacity to the Home…
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Salam Pax
The Guardian has an interview with Iraqi blogger, Salam Pax.
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Tony Benn
So Geoff and I went to see Tony Benn speak this evening at an event supporting the publication of a http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/082646596X of his. The talk – well more a discussion – was at the Conway Hall in Holborn, a real old-school political debating centre. The turn out was reasonable and a very sprightly Benn spoke…
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Iraq: the Aftermath
So not only do we now have Rumsfeld saying that there may not have been any weapons of mass destruction at the start of the war but, unsurprisingly, it turns out that the Iraq document that Blair presented to the Commons, was ever so slightly spun, and the security services are still rather upset that…
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The Vice
Finally, ITV show the next (final?) series of The Vice. I knew that it was in the can awaiting a showing, but ITV being ITV, they don’t like to air quality fare such as this. It’s nothing short of spectacular that Carlton made this in the first place. Ken Stott’s character, Pat Chappel has been…
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The Year of the Sex Olympics
BBC Four showed this Nigel Kneale play last Thursday, and I got around to watching my tape this morning. It followed a documentary about British TV’s use of the hidden camera – another in the very good Timeslip series. The play has incidentally just come out on DVD, and it’s especially prescient about where the…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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