Month: May 2005

Do you remember Barbara Boxer reading Dick Lugar the riot act at the end of the last Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on John Bolton? She was determined to get a commitment from Lugar that the State Department would...

As disenchantment with Tony Blair boosted the Liberal Democrats, Labour has been playing a familiar card for all it’s worth: “Join ranks against the Tory menace!” But should the LibDem supporters pay heed or...

Lynndie England has had to plead guilty.  Her crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people,  with no sense of the moral implications. If you’ve been told all your life that the...

My sister-in-law just returned from six months living in The Gambia, where she has been teaching and doing some nursing (and for those of you who don’t know where The Gambia is, its in very West Africa, surrounded on 3...

Last night, I was feeling pretty cashed. Tired and bleary and grumpy. So I exercised my own personal “nuclear option” and stayed off the computer for the evening. Instead, I worked on a crossword and watched a...