I guess I should have wrote about the cash for peerages scandal before now, but I didn’t want to rant about it until the details of the story had emerged. After all, the fact that politicians are corruptible and unscrupulous is hardly a radical concept.
For the record I would like to say [...]
On the ‘Cash for Peerages’ scandal
Budget Day
I suspect that Tony Blair will want to complete ten years in Number 10, so Brown´s tenth budget may well be his penultimate, not his ultimate as currently suggested. If Blair can hang on and ward off the lame duck tag, he will surely try for summer 07 for his much-expected retirement from Downing Street.
Brown [...]
Spendthrift Bush and the $9 Trillion Debt
So the US debt balloons to a whopping great $9 trillion in order to pay for Iraq without tax rises or further cuts in public spending. I guess Bush, like a spendthrift ever extending his mortgage, must be relieved that he´s been handed more free money to spend as he wishes. One can understand how [...]
English Parliament
In this Guardian article, the ex-Labour deputy leader Roy Hattersley, argues in favour of an English parliament to restore equilibrium to an unbalanced constitution following devolution to Scotland and Wales. This curious circumstance is currently being highlighted by the struggle to get the government´s education bill through parliament, which will only happen with Scottish (and [...]
Americans must be patient….
You have to give it to Dubya; the guy’s got some front.
It seems that the American people are going to have to be patient, while US and Iraqi forces fight “the enemies of a free Iraq.” The obvious question is: haven’t the American people been patient enough?
Almost daily, reports are emerging [...]
Milosevic and Saddam: lessons we have unlearned
Few people, beyond his wife and gangster son Marko, will rue the passing of Slobodan Milosevic, found dead in his cell in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The former Yugoslav president, and architect of the civil wars that tore the fragile Balkan union apart, was on trial for his alleged crimes against humanity. The [...]
tPod
Rory Bremner once called David Cameron a Tory iPod, not because he is posh and white, with a slightly glazed look, but because one could “download the policy they want.” Cameron does indeed seem to be all things to all men (and it seems; breast-feeding pregnant women too), a modern centrist politician not tied [...]
Is America Ready for a Mormon President?
With Mormon Harry Reid leading the Democrats in the Senate, and fellow Mormon and Republican Massachussetts Governor Mitt Romney making all the right noises for a 2008 bid, the US may need to face up to the idea of a President who believes that the chosen pure (white) people in America were wiped out by [...]
Bush in a slump
The quiet realisation of the American people, that they may indeed not have the best possible man in the White House, has been slow coming. While for some time Bush has been seen as week on domestic issues, now even in the war on terror he is viewed as a doofus: –
A poll [...]
