Mahogany Men Sarkozy and Cameron I’ve been a bit lax in posting my New Internationalist columns at my blog. So here’s one I made earlier. Vanity, vanity: why does just about every geopolitical headline that pops into view of late scream vanity? It’s wall-to-wall The Big I Am without a hint of introspection or self-critique; […]
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An extraordinary exposé by Greg Palast tonight on the subject of BP and, among other locations, the oil company’s interests in Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea area in Dispatches: In Deep Water for Channel 4. The Caspian region holds one of the biggest oil reserves in the world. Two interviewees state that MI6 was involved
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Video: a telling moment when Blair admits ‘inconsistency’ This time it’s personal. Watching live feed of Tony Blair at Chilcot. Anyone else noticed how, when he’s on the spot he glottal stops for England (presumably seeking orfenticity) but adopts posh when he’s seeking high status? (One Tweeter noted ‘gaing’ instead of ‘going’, f’rinstance). Tweeters inside
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Tony Blair returns to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war this Friday following certain, ahem, ‘inconsistencies’ in his earlier testimony, contradicted by former attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, and former head of MI6, Sir John Scarlett. Ooh, there’s embarrassing. I wonder who’s been economical with the actualité. John Wight has written a scorching account at
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Ah, the wit and wisdom of Ozzy Osbourne, clown prince of rock ‘n’ roll but a breath of fresh air among the creepier psychofrantic wing of the liberal media. While some present Blair as a sincere chap who, f’rinstance, donated his £4 million book advance to the British Legion out of the goodness of his
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Oscar the cat has his pawprints all over 50 deaths at an old people’s home in America. He chooses his victims, curls up with them overnight and secretly dispatches them. Oddly, the authorities have mixed up cause and effect and credited the murdering moggy with a supernatural ability to detect imminent doom, comforting the dying
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