Author: yorksranter

One of our partner blogs, the first ever to link to the Ranter, this fine institution has ceased to be. Meanwhile, problems continue with our RSS service. The Confined Space feed still won’t update, and our own feed returns meaningless error messages.

Link A prison-grim story.

Is this how to give up blogging?>

BBC NEWS Chechen prime minister ‘poisoned’ It’s still not getting any better. What will happen during the “elections” is anyone’s guess. Or fear

It is with disappointment that I have to say that one of the first blogs this one linked too, WindsOfChange.net, is now persona non grata. It was an impressively professional outfit, but their recent and deeply unpleasant attack on Edward Said on the occasion of his death warrants the end of blogging relations. “Columbia professor…

So, the Iraq Survey Group’s report says they have found nothing at all in Iraq. What a shocker! This body was, of course, the super-super wondersquad far beter than any wimpy eurosexual surrender-monkey UN inspectors who would tear aside the veil of excuses and deceit and….something like that anyway. And they appear to agree with…

BBC NEWS Scotland | Ukrainian marines stop drivers How amusing….

For your information, the archives have gone missing. I will sort this at the first opportunity. Sorry.

So – the smoking gun is here. It would appear that Jonathan Powell, the No.10 chief of staff, sent an email asking for a statement that Saddam Hussein would only use gas if his regime was under threat to be taken out of the dossier because “it backs up the argument that there is no…

In the Intelligence and Security Committee’s otherwise weak and scared report tho other day, there was a minor gem of truth. In the past on this blog, I made the point that the Hutton Inquiry had demonstrated that Jack Straw’s excuse to the Foreign Affairs Committee was dishonest. Straw, you might dimly recall, made the…