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Dr James Martin has just finished presenting the annual Commonwealth lecture 2010, and as one of the “lunatic bloggers” which he criticized for bankrupting newspapers, I felt I might just take issue with a couple of points whilst the various acquaintances from Oxford University and the Commonwealth tuck into their refreshments. Dr Martin mentioned a [...]

There are two procedural issues with the new UK Iraq War Inquiry which severely limit it’s ability to robustly investigate the issues surrounding the British involvement in the war. There are also two further issues which should set alarm bells ringing for observers and those concerned about possible findings. UK Border Limitations The inquiry is [...]

Eurelection Result Don’t know what to do. I’m so full of fire. Body wants to smoke, to drink. Crazy with desire. Where will all this end? What were people thinking? How did they arrive at that – What had they been drinking? Feels like we just lost the cup, Feels like life’s not worth it. [...]

The World’s Greatest Blog has been raising concerns for some time regarding the privacy infringements potentially being committed by Phorm and its clients; BT, Talk Talk and Virgin broadband.  It seems now that the EU is the only body capable of  defending UK citizen’s right to privacy. UK privacy law is so broadly drawn, its [...]

On a walk around Edinburgh the other day we stumbled across a cemetery near Calton Hill. It is owned and maintained by the council and contains the remains of many of the city’s notables including David Hume – a famous philosopher who had a go at the social contract theories of Hobbes and Mill. Despite [...]

Over the last few years, academics and teachers have been complaining that so much history teaching in schools concentrates on the first and second world war. However, let this recession be a lesson. “Lest We Forget” was an appropriate epitaph to the fallen soldiers of the two world wars. We have forgotten what they fought [...]

When President Obama was elected, it was thought a lid had been lifted of all of the pro-Iranian press in the West. Suddenly there are tourism guides in the travel sections of newspapers, news about how stylish the women are and how friendly it’s people can be. There are pro-Iranian people articles everywhere. The reason? [...]

George Bush, cheese-hater. That’s how the outgoing 43rd President will be remembered by generations to come. According to the Times, One of George Bush’s final acts in office was to slap duties on all sorts of EU imports from chocolate to chewing gum but none was as punitive as the 300% increase in duties on [...]

While the Western world was finishing off the turkey and stuffing, Israel thought it might be a good time to invade the Gaza Strip. After four days of aerial strikes, 383 Palestinians are dead and 800 are wounded. 62 of the dead have been confirmed as being civilian. There have been 4 Israeli deaths. It’s [...]

Mumbai has seen a number of attacks on its hotels, railway stations and public areas from a team of (allegedly) twenty-five gunmen. The newspapers keep dropping the word Al-Qaeda into their articles and saying it “bears all the hallmarks” of an Al-Qaeda style attack. I would like to stop them there. Can anyone pin down [...]