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The Brothers
Dan Hodges has a good assessment (that is, I agree with it) of the Labour leadership candidates at Labour Uncut. He notes that Ed Miliband has run a negative campaign against his party’s past and everyone involved in it:
So virulent have been his assaults on the policies in the last manifesto that I shudder to [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 22 July 2010 at 3:18 pm
Greater and lesser crimes
Russell Razzaque, a psychiatrist and author of Human Being to Human Bomb: The Conveyor Belt of Terror, disagreed with the British military action in Iraq.
So, now, does the Daily Mail, although its editorial position at the time was carefully hedged. In a leading article today the Mail is so taken by the testimony of Baroness [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 22 July 2010 at 2:40 pm
Iraq: A forewarned fiasco
“They showed us videos about Iraq and how Muslims were being killed there.” This was one of the most common reports of the radicalization process described to the authorities and Police by young men in the UK charged with and convicted of terrorism related offences. That the Iraq war was the most profoundly effective recruiting [...]
By Dr Russell Razzaque | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 22 July 2010 at 2:05 pm
The Alternative Alternative Vote
The voting reform referendum Bill is to be published this afternoon, so now is the time to repeat my one contribution of mind-numbing detail, which I unsurprisingly think is important.
I am a supporter of the Alternative Vote, which allows voters to number as many candidates as they want in order of preference, which at least [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 22 July 2010 at 1:44 pm
Has Nick Clegg helped the case for a war crimes tribunal?
Samira Shackle at the Staggers, the New Statesman blog, asks number 371 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No. But a warm welcome back to the Blair hate fest to Philippe Sands QC, who has in the past explained in some detail why a prosecution is not going to happen.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 22 July 2010 at 11:29 am
An Anti-Social Network
When Nick Clegg in the House of Commons today criticised the erosion of civil liberties and the invasion of people’s privacy over the past 13 years, he was referring, of course, to the rise of Facebook and eyespymp.
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is quoted by Jeffrey Rosen in The New York Times on the importance of “societal forgetting”. By [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 8:17 pm
The “Iraq Caused 7/7″ Loop
Talking of Baroness Manningham-Buller (below), I can’t believe that the rebuttal service has to go round the same old loop of “Iraq caused 7/7″ all over again.
Yes, MI5 were worried that Britain’s taking part in the invasion of Iraq might increase support for jihadist terrorism. Yet there is no evidence that it did. Mohammed Siddique [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 5:02 pm
Clegg throws it all away
It was all going so well for Nick Clegg as he stood in for David “Junior Partner” Cameron at Prime Minister’s Questions. He told Jack Straw – who is officially in the shadow cabinet list the “acting shadow deputy prime minister” – that the deadline for withdrawing from Afghanistan was 2015, not 2014, and it [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 4:34 pm
Donkeygate: a reply
Why finding a parasailing donkey funny does not make you a maniac.
By Archie Bland | Eagle Eye, The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 3:59 pm
Can the iPad Fix Healthcare?
Number 370 in my inexhaustible series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked in a press release by the New England Complex Systems Institute, which is launching a programme (no, I don’t call it an “app”) called Healthcare 101.
The iPad is a magical device, but can it fix the healthcare system?
A new app “Healthcare [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 20 July 2010 at 7:09 pm
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