The Yorkshire Ranter

Now, I’ve just spent a good hour composing a long post about the Bush documents, but Blogger had one of its increasingly frequent crappy fits and the lot vanished. So, I’ll keep this short. The fact you can recreate the documents in MS Word is no kind of argument that they were created that way.…

BBC NEWS | Politics | Downing Street hammer man arrest “A man has launched a sledgehammer attack on the security gates at the entrance of Downing Street forcing Whitehall to be closed off on Friday.” I think I can relate to that…

I have completed and submitted my dissertation! Update: a reader has requested a copy, which can be found here.

Records Say Bush Balked at Order (washingtonpost.com) Key papers concerning Bush’s (lack of)military service have been published. His CO, Lt.Col. Jerry Killian, is quoted as suspending young George from flying due to “failure to perform” and “failure to take his annual physical as ordered”. Killian also seems to have been concerned about the lad’s skiving…

This is very cool indeed

Interesting link to an article by Jan Engvald of Lund University in Sweden, who recently visited this blog. He basically makes the point that, if you are worried about radiation from mobile phones, you should welcome more base stations – the technology is designed to save battery life, so the closer a phone is to…

Linky (German) Metro AG, a German supermarket operator, is suing the publishers of the Duden Dictionary of Foreign Words for defining “metro” as “the underground railway, especialy in Paris and Moscow”. Not only that, but they have also had a pop at the public transport services of Hamburg, Munich and Berlin for using the M-word.…

Will it be the Canadian police over his involvement with Hollinger (including a $3.1 million performance bonus for running a venture fund that lost 24% of its value every year) or the FBI on the AIPAC/Pentagon spy scandal? My view on the spy story is that it’s not so much about the information that got…

“American interrogators working in Iraq have obtained as much as 50 percent more high-value intelligence since a series of coercive practices like hooding, stripping and sleep deprivation were banned, a senior American official said Monday. Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the American commander in charge of detentions and interrogations, said that the number of “high-value” intelligence…

I’m not going to try to say anything profound about the Beslan school massacre. All anything I say will do is to repeat that this is a horror so depraved it’s blank, like trying to talk to a fish. What answer can there be to this? Discussing the grim politics that took Russia to this…