Yes one wonders what all those meetings between Blair and Gaddafi were all about? Photo courtesy of Lakelander who is a Tory blogger but one who sometimes displays an intelligent and acerbic wit.
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As I was phoning people round yesterday to tell them of the date and time of my mother’s funeral, one conversation in particular highlighted the qualities which I attributed to mum in my short posting about her. The conversation was with the mother of a young lad who my mum befriended. Mum was widowed way [...]
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I’ve never believed Alistair Campbell or Tony Blair’s accounts of the lead up to the war in Iraq for one second. Respectively they are 1) A smart arsed media man and 2) A smart arsed lawyer/politician and they may know how to respond to awkward questions, but truth? nah sorry, they wouldn’t know truth if [...]
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Just how involvement in military action can be limited? I am no expert in the field but isn’t the whole essence of military action one of goals and strategy? Yes? In that case, what is the goal of military action in Libya? Is it, as France, the USA and the UK say, to protect the [...]
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“Religion is a force for good in the world” was the title for a debate in Toronto yesterday between former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaking for the motion and intellectual journalist Christopher Hitchens speaking against it. Hitchens, currently undergoing chemotherapy for aggressive cancer was nonetheless in characteristic sparkling form and I simply could not [...]
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I stumbled on this spelling error from Tony Blair in 2001. Inexplicably, the then Prime Minister of the country couldn’t spell tomorrow! (A statement of fact not a wisecrack). The Newsround (Childrens’ news) article at the time quoted thus: “Prime Minister Tony Blair’s admitted the mistake he made in an important letter was a spelling [...]
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Thanks to Ken Fitlike Apparently there’s now a nationwide campaign for people to surreptitiously place the book in crime sections.
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Apparently…………………..
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“Let me ask you one question. /Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could?” Bob Dylan (Masters of War) Via Colin Livett in today’s Guardian.
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