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February 23, 2007 | Politics

John McCain, Liberal Hawk Darling No More?

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Worrying trend of the day: following Hillary Clinton’s drift to the right, former Republican Most Liked By Democrats John McCain…

January 31, 2007 | Politics, Religion & Philosophy, Science & Technology

An Even More Inconvenient Truth

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When I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry, I can only mock. Pillar of society and father of seven…

October 21, 2006 | Politics

Unbelievable Ignorance

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Headline on BBC News today: “Bush to consult top Iraq generals.” What, you mean the fucker isn’t in constant bloody…

October 13, 2006 | Politics

The Iraqi Holocaust

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At last, among all the chatter, an informed and well-reasoned defence of the study on Iraqi civilian deaths published in…

September 29, 2006 | Politics, Religion & Philosophy

A Step Too Far?

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Spiegel Online have a rightfully indignant opinion piece on the slippery slope Europe is navigating in its treatment of muslim…

August 16, 2006 | Politics

The Plot To Bomb The World

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Hysterical tales of terrorism and impending doom unsettle me. Not because I’m worried about being blown up or burnt down,…

June 28, 2006 | Politics

Ritter’s Myths

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Scott Ritter is still one of the few people who embodies that rare combination: an opinion on US policy in…

April 4, 2006 | Politics

Waiting for the Barbarians

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British defence secretary John Reid would like to see the Geneva conventions and other international laws swept aside to fight…

March 9, 2006 | Politics, Religion & Philosophy

South Dakota Goes Medieval

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So the South Dakota Legislature has reinstituted a ban on abortion, putting the entire United States on a slippery slope…

February 20, 2006 | Politics, Religion & Philosophy

Ayaan Hirsi Ali On The Right To Offend

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While the worst of the storm surrounding the Danish cartoons of Mohammed was raging, I remained uncharacteristically quiet on the…

January 18, 2006 | Politics

Al Gore, Statesman

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Al Gore, about whose leadership qualities I wasn’t quite convinced in the past, is proving himself to be more and…

January 2, 2006 | Politics

Blair Government Allowed Torture

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We start 2006 with a sad indictment of the morality of the British Government, who have finally devolved to the…

December 29, 2005 | Politics

What Eliot Weinberger Heard About Iraq in 2005

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Eliot Weinberger wrote an essay entitled What I heard about Iraq in 2005. Sadly, the dwindling number of supporters of…

December 19, 2005 | Politics

Theroux on Africa

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Paul Theroux has an excellent opinion piece in the New York Times on Africa and foreign aid. Himself a member…

December 3, 2005 | Politics

The Fairy Tale That Leads America

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To which degree is America’s foreign policy (and has its foreign policy always been) driven by religion? To a very…