Author: Londonbear

In yesterday’s diary on the Orange One I gave the background to a letter to Blair in effect telling him to go and go now. Today seven of the signatories, one junior minister and six “Parliamentary Private...

Once in a while it is good to take time out to celebrate extraordinary individuals. Today is such a day. This morning in New York a remarkable lady completed a 6782 Km bike ride starting from the Golden Gate Bridge on 30 June to...

While I was doing some background reading on the net for my last diary (on Eurotrib) on the Amnesty International Report alleging prima face evidence of war crimes committed in Lebanon, I came across a link-up that the BBC did...

If you fly at all regularly it is almost certain you have flown on a Boeing 737. They have been the “workhorses” of the skys and are particularly popular with low cost airlines. It has been estimated that there are...

Richard Nixon’s lawyers tried to claim that the President was “as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time”. In the current debates about Presidential power in respect of the unauthorised NSA...