Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

A Couple of Questions for Lord Goldsmith

When the former Attorney- General, Lord Goldsmith appears before the Iraq Inquiry tomorrow, I have little doubt that the panel will spend some time on his advice given to the government at the beginning of March 2003. This forms the... Read more →

Sizer - well and truly sized up

The Revered Stephen Sizer Today, a story has exploded over the blogosphere. Late last year, a Christian student blogger, Seismic Shock, was 'debating' with a fellow Christian, the Rev. Stephen Sizer. The Reverend Sizer's writings appeared on a Holocaust denier... Read more →

New powers given to the Attorney by the Guardian

I often despair at the inaccuracy contained in some newspapers! The Attorney General has no power to increase sentences. She has the power to refer the case to the Court of Appeal on the grounds that the sentence was 'unduly... Read more →

Glasgow humour.

'My uncle told me this from when he was a boy living in the Gorbals where an old couple were blown out of their window in a gas explosion...everyone was out in the street saying "oh that's terrible int it"...... Read more →

Is Dr Pangloss really dead?

François-Marie Arouet-Voltaire Voltaire wrote this letter shortly after the Lisbon earthquake. This “Act of God” killed an estimated 70,000 out of a population of 185,000, many of whom were attending the mass. It occurred on All Saints Day 1755. Les... Read more →

Blair, the Observer and another deception

I've just finished reading Nick Davies' ' Flat Earth News'. Ian Hislop called the book 'A must read for anyone worried about journalism-which, on this analysis, should be everyone'. Perhaps this is an example of what Hislop means. The second... Read more →

Doune Castle-Stirling

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So the Mail and Telegraph are grumbling about a referendum in Iceland- with threat of being kept out of the EU. Now which papers support referenda in the UK and would rather like us to exit the EU? Read more →

More Sam Harris Wisdom

'Either the Bible is just an ordinary book, written by mortals, or it isn't. Either Christ was divine, or he was not. If the Bible is an ordinary book, and Christ an ordinary man, the basic doctrine of Christianity is... Read more →

No Peter, we are not about to see the end of the Euro!

Peter Oborne, in today's Observer is the latest Eurosceptic to predict the downfall of the Euro. Remember all those voices who predicted the single currency wouldn't last the year? He suggests that because Spain, Greece and Ireland have high levels... Read more →