Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Halloween!!

Be frightened, very fightened. Thanks Hannah and Rachel. Cheers, t Read more →

It's all about hearts and minds!

Fallujah besieged This is a link to a report from an "unembedded" journalist inside Fallujah on the BBC's website. It's almost impossible to imagine the horror experienced by the sixty odd thousand inhabitants waiting for the Bush/Blair crusade to begin!... Read more →

Bush v Churchill Round Two

Steve Bell's take in yesterday's Guardian Read more →

Could Saddam have done Better?

In June if this year, one of my first postings was entitled “ Who’s Counting?” I quoted the civilian deaths in Iraq from the independent Iraq Body count site . As the Coalition “do not do body counts”, this site... Read more →

"Thirty Minutes for Buns"

If any one could bottle the aroma they could make a fortune. I’ve said that dozens on times as I’ve bought a couple of hundred grams of salami and some grana from the small Italian Deli a mile or so... Read more →

More on Blunkett -Second part

You may have guessed from reading some of the items on this blog that David Blunkett is no longer on my Christmas card list. He seems to be able to come up with some of the most ludicrous statements. This... Read more →

Roses And Revolutionaries

In 1992, an estate agent in Forest Hall, a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, advertised for sale a nine- bed-roomed property, Earlington House, for the then not inconsiderable sum of £200,000. The house had served as a home for First... Read more →

Res Ipsa Loquitur

Has Bush lost his reason? Read more →

The Making of a Terror Myth.

The making of the terror myth "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a... Read more →

About time!

Corriere della Sera - International Principal Bans Low-slung Jeans Circular in Avezzano high school.“Jeans reveal too much, causing embarrassment to students”. Students say they will do what they feel is right The principal claims according to current sensibilities, it is... Read more →