The Sun is at it’s most vitriolic this morning, labelling the MPs who defeated the government as “traitors” on its front page. It goes on to claim that they ignored the wishes of the vast majority of Britons and humiliated Tony Blair. In a bizarre piece of reporting, it also says the “the limit was… Continue reading “Traitors”
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On Further Reflection
Let’s look at it another way. Yes, we saw Tony Blair defeated for the first time. But they’ve managed to push through a doubling of the time that a suspect can be held without charge. That’s still pretty disgusting. Are there any “democratic” countries with a longer period? If I was feeling paranoid, I might… Continue reading On Further Reflection
Suspicious Behaviour on the Tube
Today’s Guardian has an interesting account by David Mery of the day he was arrested by the metropolitan police for acting suspiciously on the tube. This took place the day after the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in Stockwell station. Mery has a web page where he is keeping a record of the incident… Continue reading Suspicious Behaviour on the Tube
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Tube Holdups
This morning my tube was held up at Bond St for ten minutes and three carriages (including mine) were evacuated. All because someone left their bag behind when they got off the tube. Of course, London Underground’s method of investigating this was for the driver to wander up and carefully look into the bag. I… Continue reading Tube Holdups
Tube Disruptions
I’m not sure what to make of this. I’m just throwing it out there as a data point. Everyday we get tube disruptions in London (just look at Stef’s tube map). Some days are better than others. Today was a really bad day. And I’m not talking about this afternoon when incompetent bombers shut down… Continue reading Tube Disruptions
Blogging the Bombs
It’s a couple of days on, so let’s step back and take a look at what happened on Thursday. I’m still trying to articulate exactly how I feel about it all so let’s leave that for another post and instead look at more practical matters. Basically, it seems to me that Thursday 7th July 2005… Continue reading Blogging the Bombs
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George W Bush in October 2004 We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities.