Author: Londonbear

You may have already seen comments by the Camp Kommandant at Gitmo about the suicides being “an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.” but the latest comments from the US administration take the biscuit. As...

There seems to have been very little comment about the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling  on Tuesday that struck down an agreement between the EU and the USA. This requires that up to 34 pieces of information about...

While Blair was away playing poodle to George Bush, his deputy, John Prescott was sneaking off to play croquet on the lawn  of the “grace and favour” (rent free) country house he gets with the job. That’s...

The implications of the Speech by Israeli Prime Minister Olmert to Congress was the subject of a brief and immoderate diary by Carl Nyberg on the orange one. Depite the flames that it received, it was pointed out in the...

The Eurovision Song Contest was held in Athens on Saturday night. Finland won with a heavy rock anthem by Lordi, a group who never appear in public without their monster make-up. On Sunday, Montenegro held a referendum on...