Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Powell's UN Presentation at the M.O.D?

Today I watched Vice Admiral Charles Style tell the world that the "Cornwall 15" had been ambushed in Iraqi territorial waters. The Iraq/Iran boundary in that part of the world is disputed, so it would not surprise me to see... Read more →

Harry's Bar!

You may think Prince Harry is accident prone. After all, it was only a year or so ago that he thought it was a wheeze to dress up in Nazi uniform and parade before the cameras. Now, just before he... Read more →

Sauce for the Goose?

I wonder how the UK government would react if the Iranians holding these 15 Navy Personnel declared them to be "anti Iranian combatants". After all, such a designation has about as much legal force in international law as "enemy combatant".... Read more →

Educating ASBOs

Back in August 2004, I mentioned how New Labour had smuggled a cunning device into English Law. Thousands of kids are being criminalised by the use of the powers contained in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. The civil law... Read more →

Bolton Spills the Beans!

We now know the truth why, last July the UK and the USA were so against the call for a cease-fire when Israel responded to Hezbollah's kidnapping of a couple of IDF soldiers. Nothing of this was mentioned at the... Read more →

"Britain and the Bomb"

During yesterday's "Trident" debate in the House of Commons, those opposing the signing away £bn30 to update our deterrent rightly dwelt on the proliferation issue. Why, they asked, if we need a weapon of mass destruction to deter an unknown... Read more →

Well Done the NHS!

A few days after my last post, my 84 year-old mother fell down at home. She appeared confused, but in no pain. The " out of hours" GP was called. He arrived within an hour and took another couple of... Read more →