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The Word Of Zhisou
The Life and Times of Me (and my half-baked plans to change the world)
tygerland.net
occasionally acerbic, cultural and political comment
It’s all good stuff, so you’d [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Iraqi Civil War
How many countries can you name that, having being released from an oppressive centrist regime, all work together to form a happy new country with little or no separatist ambition from the regions? I´m struggling – Germany survived WW2 and the downfall of Hitler … let´s make it harder: How many countries that were cobbled together [...]
The Neocon’s break ranks
Power
The polarising effects of the Bush administration have been assessed many times, both by ideologues on the left, and on the right. Pragmatic centrists such as myself, have also considered them, and found that it’s idealism that separates the two camps.
The Bush of 2000 was of course, we now know, and have always suspected, [...]
Terrorists Take Over US Port
President Bush is allowing a UAE company (Dubai Ports) to take control of six major US sea ports as part of the Dubai company´s acquisition of UK shipping company P&O.
Dubai Ports are an established and successful port management company and hail from the relatively western-friendly United Arab Emirates. Many US sea ports have long been privatised. The Bush [...]
Democrats Missing the Target
This excellent Guardian article backs up my point about criticism of Cheney over the hunting accident. Glenn Reynolds rightly points out how opponents of the Bush White House are just shouting about everything in a “scattergun” manner, thus drowing out real constructive concerns: “the response to the “cartoon jihad” by Islamic extremists has been limp. [...]
The Ice is Melting
The US are being taken to the UN for their failure to prevent temeperature rises which are damaging the protected area of Waterton-Glacier Peace Park (see here).
Despite Bush recently thawing his hostility to climate change science (well, he had to, really, he was starting to look stupid in the face of the overwhelming scientific concensus), this [...]
