Thursday, 11 September 2014

A delusion of grandeur and global power

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On Thursday last week Mr Cameron told the Today Programme he did not need to secure Syria's agreement to bomb ISIL fighters on Syrian t...
Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Scottish Referendum debate should not have been about political pugilism

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In my view, the main problem with last night's "debate" between the SNP First Minister Alex Salmond and leader of the Better T...
Sunday, 24 August 2014

Nuclear redundancy

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I was intrigued by the launch by the Cabinet Office  of its new Government Property Finder tool, to allow citizens to locate and nominate su...
Thursday, 21 August 2014

Iraq, 19 years ago: the key meeting the media persist in ignoring

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Gen. Hussein Kamal, the former director of Iraq's Military Industrialization Corporation, in charge of Iraq's weapons programme,...
Saturday, 16 August 2014

Lauren Bacall and opposition to nuclear weapons

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Although most obituaries of actress Lauren Bacall understandably concentrated on her professional career on screen and stage, she did  have ...
Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Open Sesame!

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I have on my bookshelves a 230-page, lavishly produced volume entitled ‘Israel in the World: changing lives through innovation’, published i...
Sunday, 3 August 2014

Ed Miliband, Tony Blair and silence over Gaza massacres

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Labour leader Ed Miliband rightly criticized David Cameron for not speaking out against the slaughter by the Israeli Defence Force of ov...