As well as the Elysee Palace, many other interesting folk crop up in my stats log. People who google for “obscure gay wank”. People who search for “Dzungarian Gate railway”. (I’m result no.9. How cool is that?) People who work for the Office of the US Secretary of Defence. Yes, gateway4.osd.mil, that means you. On…
Read More Read and Enjoyed in the Corridors of Power (2)A few days ago, the Grauniad carried a report from Baghdad quoting a briefing given by the departing UK senior officer in Iraq, Lieutenant-General John Kiszely. Kiszely has the reputation of being a brain, and I was keen to see what he had to say. He argued that the insurgents were on the back foot…
Read More Gen. Kiszely’s viewWell, as if it hadn’t been trailed enough, Rover is now an ex-business. 6,000+ jobs are toast, Thatcher’s life mission to deindustrialise the UK is complete (you can die now, Maggie, it’s done!). I’d like to point up some things about this, some of which I’ve written about before. Basically, the first thing to remember…
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