Did you know ISAF has been carrying out air missions to destroy Taliban radio towers? You do now, thanks to Thomas Wiegold’s blog. Specifically, Task Force Palehorse includes UAE Apache Longbow attack helicopters and American Kiowa Warrior reconnaissance helicopters, plus (according to comments) German ELINT specialists. And they go out and identify Taliban radio networks,…
Read More taliban mobile!I have just been reading the catalogue for the Design Museum’s exhibition on Kenneth Grange. An interesting thought – he makes the very good point that the problem with both the matt-black Apple laptops and the iDevices is that they soak up oil and fingerprints and human grease in general. This is of course the…
Read More things that didn’t happen: Ken Grange editionI have to say the only surprise I found in this story was that the list of conditions GPs failed to diagnose didn’t include death. “I prescribed Mr. Smith antibiotics and told him to come back in a week’s time, but for some reason he wouldn’t leave the surgery. Thwack…Fore! I wonder if he’s still…
Read More don’t listen to the doctor, dear. ignore him, then listen to the real doctorIn the light of the last post, don’t forget Will Lewis’s role at the Daily Telegraph. The Guardian wasn’t willing to say that the whole affair of the leaked Vince Cable tapes sounded much more like the actions of someone trying to sabotage opposition to the BSkyB takeover than someone trying to spoil the Torygraph’s…
Read More wer A sagt muss auch B sagenPeter Oborne‘s piece on post-Murdoch Britain is interesting, although mostly for the sheer otherness of his thinking. He’s at least got the good sense or moral minima required to end up on the right side of the debate, but he gets there through some truly odd reasoning. Can anyone remember even one instance when any…
Read More the giant squid meets the criminal octopus as the last Tory sings his swan songA comment pulls me up for inventing the Labour statesman “Nye Bevin”. Whoops. But this gave me an idea. Labour mashups! Take the front half of one significant socialist and match it with the back half of another, and see what you get. For example, Harold Cripps is obviously a 1960s trade union leader. Tony…
Read More as for that bastard Hopi Wegg-Prosser, though…This blog raised the question of Coulson’s vetting. It demanded that Dick Fedorcio be called in. It demanded an audit of telecoms intercept logs. So here’s another question. A timetable for defence vetting processes can be found here. A request for developed vetting, i.e. a top secret clearance, or what Andy Coulson was meant to…
Read More trumpetI thought I’d put together a list of things that upshot from the Murdoch hearings and immediately afterwards. NI was still paying Mulcaire Yates was told not to tell Cameron by Ed Llewellyn James Murdoch says it was all others’ fault, i.e. Hinton and Brooks Rebekah Brooks says George Osborne recommended Coulson 10 out of…
Read More he’s making a list, he’s checking it twice…I expect there’s going to be a hell of a lot of ink spilled in the next few months about different schemes for “regulating the press”, how the very idea is an abomination and this has nothing to do with my column in some Murdoch rag, how this outrageous behaviour makes it utterly necessary for…
Read More against the PCC, for the Competition CommissionDick Fedorcio is taking a little trip to Westminster to be quizzed. By Keith Vaz’s committee. How times change – Keith Vaz as the standard bearer of public integrity. It’s got to be more convincing to get your second chance after 10 years in the wilderness though. Meanwhile, has anyone else noticed that the “#AskEdM”…
Read More Vaz discovers the network