Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

What the BBC doesn't report!

Anyone interested in what's really going on in Iraq could do worse than read the daily McClatchy reports. This one emphasises just how powerful the illegal invasion of Iraq five years ago has made Iran. Read more →

The only way to reduce short sentences, is to stop magistrates dishing them out altogether.

The prison population has almost reached bursting point......AGAIN. So the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw is blathering on, this time to BBC Political editor, Nick Robinson, about the use, by magistrates, of "short" prison sentences. Why don't they try Community Sentences... Read more →

Exactly how many kids are going to school in Afghanistan Mr Alexander?

One of the few boasts the UK/US governments are able to make about the slowly developing quagmire in Afghanistan is the number of kids that are now able to attend school. Here, a Home Office spokesman came out with the... Read more →

What do our Chief Constables spread on their toast?

Peter Fahy Mike Craik Bernard Hogan Howe I sometimes wonder just what our Chief Constables are spreading on their toast at breakfast time. One result is that the synchromesh linking their synapses and vocal chords is in desperate need of... Read more →