March 2004

Joshua Claybourn celebrates the death of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin by likening him to Saruman. Call me a liberal European, Josh but I find it slightly tasteless to rejoice over any death- especially one carried out in a manner to lower the Israelis to the same level as the terrorists. If the methods [...]

Having forgotten both the UK mothers day and Joshua Claybourns blogday: I feel terrible. Still a belated congratulations is better than none at all. So this link and a phone call to my mum have absolved my guilt. Joshua has a great blog, which has long been one of my favorite reads. It is one [...]

Holywood take note- I guess some distributors must be kicking themselves as the Passion grosses more than the Matrix reloaded and keeps going strong. I wonder how it will do in pagan England where it opens next week.

Andrew Sullivan couldnt get much clearer about his views of the Spanish: “Romano Prodi, the chief of the European Commission, puts it as bluntly as anyone: ‘It is clear that using force is not the answer to resolving the conflict with terrorists,’ Prodi said. ‘Terrorism is infinitely more powerful than a year ago.’ This is [...]

Andrew Sullivan says f the appeasement brigade really do believe that the war to depose Saddam is and was utterly unconnected with the war against al Qaeda, then why on earth would al Qaeda respond by targeting Spain? If the two issues are completely unrelated, why has al Qaeda made the connection? The answer is [...]

According to The Observer The Lott story-greatly loved by bloggers actually demonstrates that Bloggers and hacks need one another. Sad, but true. .

This extract from the statement claiming responsibility for the bombings says it all.

In the understatement of the millenium the BBC reports Our correspondent says the late swing to the Socialists raises one disturbing thought -if al-Qaeda was responsible for Thursday’s attacks, it appears to have had significant influence in changing the government of a leading Western democracy. As I write this I am in Spain. The flight [...]