Author: Londonbear

This diary is written on the working assumption that there is no conspiracy involving Bush and Blair and any desire to cover bad news. I am going to be looking at how the two administrations are presenting or exploiting the...

I suspect that many on here also have a quiet peek at a certain orange site. As the owner is probably one of the more well known bloggers and even got employed to cover the UK General Elections, I suspect it may be a somewhat...

Gill Hicks (middle) was the last person to be removed alive from the bombed railway carriage at Russell Square on 7/7/2005. She lost both legs. This morning walking on artificial limbs and supported by her husband, she laid...

Saturday marks the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme in the first pan-European Civil war of the last century. The sound of a series of whistles broke the morning still. By the end of that day, the British Army had...

Many people will be on or have relatives on medication to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) so the news that there is new advice on treating it is not entirely out of place here. It comes from the British “National...