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 →

Universal healthcare is terrorist recruitment tool

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Obama-You must not let Bush/Cheney off the Hook!

Last November, I blogged here about dragging Bush and his cronies into the dock to face punishment for the crimes they certainly committed during the time they all had their hands on the levers of power. I found this part... Read more →

Bush in the Dock?

Peter Harvey's Lavengro blog pointed me to this New York Times spoof. The "original" can be found here. One of the articles is headed " Court Indicts Bush on High Treason Charge. Clicking on that headline takes you to a... Read more →

Lost in Translation.....Again

Craig Murray here complains about the "shamelessness" of Brown's speech to the Knesset today. He also has a go at of his former colleagues at the FCO who were responsible for drafting such a "tendentious and warmongering" piece. But unusually... Read more →

The Leila Khaled principle- Revisited

One of the most stimulating-and lengthy-debates on Brian Barder's "magisterial" blog was on the post here in June 2005. This selection of Brian's post got me and perhaps others going. Are you seriously saying that in such circumstances ministers should... Read more →

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 →

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 →

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 →