2003

One may recall that very soon after the collapse of the Ba’athist regime, a business had started up offering a world standard, GSM mobile phone network in Baghdad and some other parts of Iraq. That was, until the Americans saw it differently and confiscated most of their equipment. This was no doubt why – they…

As I was walking out of the railway station in Staines, Surrey, along the path next to the tracks that connects the station to the town centre, I noticed that all lampposts on the way had been plastered with stickers reading “Africa for Africans! Asia for Asians! Europe for Europeans!”, over a brief blurb on…

Israeli soldier killed on Lebanon border “A UN official told Reuters that one of its water trucks had been hit by three bullets from the Israeli side. No one on the Lebanese side was hurt, said officials.” Now where have we heard that before? Do they just get the red mist whenever they see anything…

Another excellent blog..Alas, a blog

A horrible experience this morning! BBC Radio 5 running a phone in about the former Conservative minister David Mellor (you know, the weird fatfaced one who was appointed Secretary of State for National Heritage by Major – they called him the “minister for fun”, but he was sacked for having quite a lot of fun…

Link An excellent and well designed blog on left-wing and US labour issues. Especially this table showing the link between union membership and elections. (nb – the states that voted Republican are shown in red and vice versa, paradoxically)

The documents I referred to in the last post are both available under Downloads.

The much trailed ISG report is out and it says, as expected and widely pre-announced, that they have found no weapons of mass destruction. All the government excuses predicted in the Ranter of 25/09/03 have so far appeared. Sure, the ISG apparently believe that Saddam Hussein had an “intent at some point in the future”…

Due to the continuing problems with my Blogstreet RSS feed, I’ve decided to scrap it. We now have our own feed powered by RSSify – the link is the XML button down on the sidebar just above the Blogging Brits links.

Seattle Times report Hopes of the much-talked of “revolution in military affairs” that Donald Rumsfeld likes so much rest in part on the volley of new weapons projects that his team are spending reams of money on. One that’s about to be tested is the Stryker family of wheeled armoured vehicles, and the new army…