Craig Murray writes today,
A friend of mine in MI6 told me earlier this year that for the first time, the Israeli nuclear arsenal is now bigger than the British nuclear arsenal.
There’s another league table we’re doing badly in. I think we still have more nukes than India, Pakistan and North Korea (though, how do we [...]

I seem to have developed a bad habit for reading the comments under Daily Mail articles. There are many more than before as they no longer moderate the comments for every article. I’ve trudged through two lots today. The first is about the Haribo sweet wrappers with the alleged sexual connotations and the other about [...]

Do dogs have ‘dignity’? Can you ‘murder’ a cat?
The comments left by Daily Mail readers under two articles today seem to suggest that people these days care more about animals than human beings.
The dog story is about poodles done up to resemble other animals at ‘creative grooming’ dog shows in America.
It’s not really my bag, [...]

I don’t know why I bother sometimes. I’ve just read about 22 year old Gary Reinbach who has died of cirrhosis of the liver after being refused a transplant because he couldn’t demonstrate that he would stay off the drink after he left hospital.
Of course he couldn’t prove it – he was already dying!
So, the [...]

I have just received this tweet from someone I follow on Twitter:
To forgive… is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Compare these two cases involving murdered sons.
Margaret Mizen is mother of the murdered 15 year old Jimmy. A couple of days after she lost her son, she said:
“I just want [...]

It seems men are more attracted to the ‘girl-next-door’ look than a ‘perfect’ model or actress according to a new study.
I agree. Watching the semi-naked, plastic dolls on Top of the Pops, gyrating while miming their latest innuendo-laden record is not what I consider the epitome of femininity. There are other words that spring to [...]

One of my favourite bloggers, Tom Harris MP, wrote today that Alan Johnson is “a great man”.
Certainly, he seems favourite to be next Party leader based on this poll by LabourList a couple of weeks ago. Johnson was preferred by 38% of Labour respondents.
Why I mention Tom Harris is because I submitted a comment to [...]