Your instructions, gentlemen, based on the conclusions in this post. * David Miliband’s Statement on ‘Iraq: Locally Recruited Civilians’ of 9th October stated that Britain will help to resettle- in the wider Middle East, or in the United Kingdom- Iraqis who can prove that they have worked for this country’s soldiers or diplomats for a…
Read More Target for TonightSays Royal Holloway prof, and I suppose colleague, David Cesarani in a wankerish letter to the Guardian: Would Mearsheimer and Walt care to explain the power of the Armenian lobby? Apart from “why not ask them?”, I can offer a more useful answer. Aqoul: The bill, pushed by Armenian-Americans, who crucially are an important constituency…
Read More Intellectual RigourA short compendium of US illegal surveillance links: Qwest “threatened with loss of contracts” after pre-11/9 surveillance request, says exec on insider trading rap. Greenwald blasts immunity proposal. David Isenberg. Much detail. Laura Rozen. I have nothing very original to say, except to point out that there seems to be quite a big iceberg here.…
Read More Uninspired surveillance postWhat do the two halves of the Control Party – its Scottish and Northern wing, and its Southern and Posh wing, both – think should have no price in our society? Recap: a price is a measure of something’s value in terms of the alternatives you forgo by choosing it. Prices are a constraint; they…
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