Category: General

An interesting piece on recent problems over sky marshalls. Relations between the United States and the rest of the world have hit another patch of turbulence in recent weeks over the issue of armed sky marshals. Many countries are deeply unhappy about new airline security requirements, and public anger against perceived American imperialism is again…

Reginald Dale, public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Hoover Institution media fellow, writes in the same edition of Policy Review. On a subject close to the heart of this weblog he writes about transatlantic relations – long essay but worth the read.

Sorry folks, been up the walls busy of late…will be back blogging later tonight.

Simon Tisdall believes that the US still needs the UN With Iraqi oil revenues coming nowhere close to reconstruction requirements, the US needs UN authority to attract foreign funds – or else those funds may never come. And if Bush (and Blair) are ever to escape the WMD miasma, they must allow the UN inspectors…

Hello, I am Anthony, Gavin’s uncle. I will be posting my thoughts here occassionally.

Bloggers that attended (I think) Richard Allan Carolyn Bennett Maria Benet Mike Butcher Phil Cain David Carr Steven Clift James Crabtree Geraldine Curtis Seb Dance Jackie D Mick Fealty Perry de Havilland Russell Higgs Paul Hilder Steve Hooker Spencer Hudson Tim Ireland Dan Jellinek Bobbie Johnson Adriana Lukas Cronin Derek Parkinson Al Pearson Simon Perry…

Made it, late due to trains! Packed room, MP speaking now!

Shite, this is going to take a while to fix. Just lost 3 months of material. Grrr Radio, I’m really getting pissed off with you.  

Im going to London again this afternoon – I will try my very best to get Radio to work on another computer, so all things going well I will blog later this evening. If not it might be up to a week before I update. I won’t lose many readers…will I?

In a thrilling game, my home side Munster defeated arch rivals Leicester in the Heineken Cup. O’Gara and Peter Stringer both got memorable tries. The Leicester kicker played very badly and missed all of the penalties. Final score Munster 20, Leicester 7. Next stop Toulouse for the semi-final.