January 14, 2004

The lovable conservative (it says here), Michael Howard, has placed a full-page ad in the Guardian’s Society supplement. He’s apparently looking for real live public sector workers to contribute to his search for “waste and bureaucracy”, led by banker David James. We’ve dealt with the Bureaucracy Myth quite frequently here – the belief that there…

It’s been reported recently that a treaty has been signed by Israel and Turkey providing for the shipment of fresh water from Turkey to Israel, in huge ships, in return for military stores, especially Merkava tanks. LinkThis is just as depressing as it sounds, because it shows that one of the fashionable intellectual worries of…