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Just two days ago the Telegraph was describing Tony Blair’s response with words like “sensibly“. Looks like they’ve decided he’s had enough time of that…

Telegraph - If the Iranians hate us, let them also fear us

Iran would not have kidnapped our Servicemen without having considered our rules of engagement, our diplomatic isolation […]

Categories: History

They seem to like that sort of thing.

The Times - EU refuses to back Britain over call to threaten exports freeze Blair is left to make a statement of disgust after the airing of another video from captured British troops

European foreign ministers failed last night to back Britain in a threat to freeze the […]

Categories: War and Peace

Der Spiegel - Evil Americans, Poor Mullahs By Claus Christian Malzahn Forty-eight percent of Germans think the United States is more dangerous than Iran, a new survey shows, with only 31 percent believing the opposite. Germans’ fundamental hypocrisy about the US suggests that it’s high time for a new bout of re-education.

The Germans have […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

See the little feet desperately paddling.

Popular Mechanics - Rosie O’Donnell 9/11 Conspiracy Comments: Popular Mechanics Respond

It’s a good thing people like Rosie are too smart to read such obvious lies.

Categories: Science and Nature

Funny, just yesterday I was wondering if there was ever a situation in which a man could wear a top hat without coming off all camp or postmodern about it. I don’t think there is. Unfortunately.

Contra Costa Times - Beaver dam must go, officials say MARTINEZ: Blockage interrupts flow of Alhambra Creek, could cause […]

Categories: Science and Nature

National Catholic Register - In God’s Outback Cardinal George Pell On Translating the Mass, Climate Change And World Youth Day BY Edward Pentin

It’s a danger to try to identify it with any particular individual or movement, but I’ve been much taken by a marvelous contemporary novel by Canadian Catholic writer Michael O’Brien called Father Elijah. […]

Categories: Science and Nature

Asia News - The first Catholic Church in Doha in over 14 centuries

Work has begun on the first Catholic Church in Qatar, which after a 14 centuries has finally received permission to open a place of worship in the country. The building which lies south of the capital – will not be […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Select Society (Cleanthes) - A PPPPPPlauge of oPPPPPPinion

Whilst his first main observation (”Iran can now play with a country it does not fear, using the captured, female, naval rating to ‘tug at our heart strings“) is spot on, I think he makes two mistakes. First, he suggests that the […]

Categories: War and Peace

The Telegraph - Cap of good hope

Flat hats are the nearest we have to national dress. They are our equivalent of the beret. Asda has now announced it is surprised to be selling three times as many in the affluent South East as in the North. But the tweed cap […]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Look on those monuments to megalomania, and despair Our columnist on Burma’s bizarre but predictable architectural vision Ben Macintyre

First, Burma. Poor Burma:

In the foetid depths of the Burmese jungle, on the road to Mandalay, slave labourers toil to build a glinting new metropolis for their military overlords. This is Naypyitaw, “Seat of […]

Categories: Art and Literature

LGF - 9/11 Denial on Mainstream TV

Rosie O’Donnell is now officially a Truther. She came out today on “The View:” Video: Rosie melts down.

He’s got the video too. I’m not going to watch it.

On the bus today, some middle-aged woman got on with a Coach shopping bag, and another middle-aged lady next […]

Categories: Entertainment

“Trading Up” by Sam Ryskind

Categories: War and Peace

Gerry Baker was on Hugh Hewitt last night, which was a great comfort. More on that later.

So, the Brits are letting this backfire on the Iranians and let world public opinion come around to the idea that maybe the US isn’t actually the biggest danger to peace on earth. Key to this is […]

Categories: War and Peace

It’s a measure of how much I appreciate a good joke that this doesn’t upset me:

BBC - Bush serves up the jokes at meal

“A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice-president had shot someone. “Ah, those […]

Categories: Politics

Times Online - Woman sailor ‘confesses’ on Iranian TV

Iran has broadcast a film of the lone woman among 15 Royal Navy personnel seized in the Gulf last week, in which she says she “obviously trespassed” into Iranian territory. As the seven sailors and eight Marines were paraded on Iranian state […]

Categories: War and Peace