If, hypothetically, Patricia Hewitt were to be out walking on Beachy Head and encounter someone poised to throw themselves off that cliff – maybe even a disabled person in a wheelchair asking for assistance in rolling the chair off the edge – would she give them a helping hand in pushing them off, or would she try her best to persuade them away from the cliff edge? What’s the difference? What has been all but overlooked in the pandemonium is the catastrophic damage he is doing abroad to the prospects for the defence of the free world. His recklessly misjudged televised appeal to Iran – in which he didn’t even distinguish between the regime and the oppressed people of Iran, whom he effectively threw under the bus by pointedly recognising ‘the Islamic Republic’, ie the regime – brought a swift response from that regime of contemptuous disdain: pretty appalling looking reports coming out of Israel where members of the Israeli Defence Force who were involved in the Gaza operation have talked about effectively being told to shoot at civilians. Hague replied: Well those are absolutely appalling stories. There is no question about that. We don't yet know the truth of them. I think it's very important to say that. This is evidence that now has to be looked at, of course, by Israel's military investigations unit; and it is a good thing that Israel does have provision for that, for investigating these things and for bringing to book any who were responsible for behaving in such a
Monday, 23rd March 2009
A helping hand?
12:35am
Later today, Patricia Hewitt MP is to introduce an amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill that would apparently legalise assisted suicide.Allies no longer against this
12:21am
The awesome scale of Obama’s ineptitude over his ruinous ‘fiscal stimulus’ package and in particular the bail-out and bonus debacle over AIG has provoked a weeping and a wailing and a rending of garments among the faithful, yea even unto the New York Times, as they witness The One not walking on water but risking pulling out the plug on America Inc. altogether.Sunday, 22nd March 2009
The Ha'aretz blood libel
9:31pm
On his eponymous BBC TV show this morning, I listened open-mouthed as Andrew Marr invited Tory foreign affairs spokesman William Hague to express his views about the
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Monday, 23 March 2009
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