November 25, 2007

November 25, 2007 by yorksranter 0 comments

What might explain this astonishing result?

I can’t begin to imagine why LibDem polls are up; especially as at the same time more of the population now oppose than support ID cards.

November 25, 2007 by yorksranter 0 comments

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Whilst we’re on the Pakistan blogging, immense respect is due to the Pakistan Policy Blog

November 25, 2007 by yorksranter 0 comments

Pair of Pakistan Politics Posts!

Whilst we’re on the Pakistan blogging, immense respect is due to the Pakistan Policy Blog. It looks like Nawaz Sharif is coming home – like football, remember that? – apparently because the Saudis insisted that he be released from exile in Jeddah. The PPB makes the very good point that Musharraf has been gradually mutating…

November 25, 2007 by yorksranter 0 comments

Pakistan, NOIA, and a rebel data centre

This NYT story is an example, I think, of the way one’s mental models control one’s perception. The report deals with a proposed U.S. policy of providing the Frontier Corps, the paramilitary police of the North-West Frontier Province, with aid directly rather than via the Pakistani military. This is one thing. It is not an…

November 25, 2007 by yorksranter 0 comments

Slower and slower

Dan Hardie keeps getting desperate e-mail from stranded Iraqi employees of the British Army. I haven’t yet, but I do regularly get people on NewSkies satellite-Internet links searching for information on how to apply for asylum. Expect dramatic news from him tomorrow; you’ll need to write to them. Apparently David Miliband doesn’t think the matter…

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