Iraq War Inquiry Derangement Syndrome (ctd)

As Iraq War Derangement is ramped up daily to fresh pitches of irrationality and hysteria in the media coverage of the Chilcot inquiry, Nick Cohen’s article in the Observer is a must read. His conclusion, watching the latest attempt to nail Tony Blair for the crime of ‘taking us to war on a lie’ of which the appeasement crowd have known for a certainty that he is guilty since before Saddam’s Baghdad statue fell and that Blair, not Saddam, is the real war criminal, is spot on:

The fifth disappointment in a row will drive them closer to the edge. Sir Oliver Miles, former ambassador to Libya, has already predicted that the inquiry will be open to accusations of ‘whitewash’ because two members of the Chilcot panel are Jews. He's not alone. I have had an allegedly left-wing journalist

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Another IPCC claim evaporates

Yet another piece of research that has been endorsed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and has underpinned man-made global warming theory has been revealed to be a work of fiction which has misled the world. The Sunday Times reported yesterday that its prediction that the world’s glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035 will probably be retracted. This is because it has been revealed that it was based on nothing more than a news story in the New Scientist eight years previously – and that report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist, who has admitted that the claim was ‘speculation’ and was not supported by any formal research. Despite the fact that this claim surfaced in a campaigning report rather than...

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The suborning of American intelligence

People in America are often shocked to discover the extent to which the authorities in Britain have been taken in by the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood, to such an extent the UK government and police use them as advisers on combating Islamic extremism. Americans would be even more shocked to discover that exactly the same thing is going on in their own backyard.

Pajamas TV features two interviews with former US security people, one described merely as having been given some kind of intel-gathering assignment by the ‘joint chiefs’ and the other described as a ‘former FBI special agent’. The first describes how, when he discovered to his alarm that there was not only no evidence that Islamic radicals were wrong in Islamic law but that there were no counter-arguments to them in that law, the US intel/law...

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A poisoned spliff for the Tories?

It’s straight out of the frying pan into the fire – or perhaps one should say, out of the crack-pipe into the shooting-gallery. The replacement for Professor David Nutt, who was sacked as chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs for attacking the government’s decision to reclassify cannabis to a category of greater risk, is from precisely the same socially catastrophic ‘harm reduction’ -- aka drug legalisation  -- mould.

The lobby to liberalise drug policy in Britain is part of a global movement -- financed in large measure by the apparently bottomless coffers of the westophobic financier George Soros -- to bring down the UN drug laws, which commit signatory nations to the aim of eradicating the use of narcotics and thus underpin their criminalisation. This sinister movement, whose thinking is now the almost unchallenged orthodoxy in...

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Yes, it's more difficult than you think, Dave

In his speech today to Demos about supporting parents and families, David Cameron said the following in connection with the need to reverse family breakdown:

Right at the heart of [our family-friendly reform plan]  is our commitment to...commitment.  I think it is essential to say loudly and proudly that commitment is a core value of a responsible society and that’s why we will recognise marriage, whether between a man and a woman, a woman and a woman or a man and another man, in the tax system. And yes, that is a commitment.

Oh dear.

First of all, when did the UK introduce marriage between a man and a man or a woman and a woman? Last time I looked there was only civil union. Is Cameron saying he will turn this into marriage?

Second, marriage is...

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Wolf Hall

I have just finished reading Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winning novel, Wolf Hall. It is simply stunning. I can scarcely remember a novel which has consumed me so utterly by creating a totally believable world. What did I know about Thomas Cromwell before I read it? Nothing that I could remember of any great significance. Now I feel I know him and understand him. How much of this wonderful novel is historical fact and how much derives from the imagination of Hilary Mantel I cannot say; but her book creates the impression of real people saying real things and feeling all-too real agonies, both corporeal and spiritual, in a political and religious climate of unimaginable fanatical savagery.

Two things stand out for me in particular, apart from the extraordinarily subtle, sensitive and sympathetic portrait painted of Cromwell himself and his steady...

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