May 2005

Back in January, I asked What’s Up in the Yemen? after noticing regular flights by Irbis Air Co., a Kazakh-registered airline owned by Viktor Bout and now placed on the US Treasury seizure list, from Sharjah to Riyan-Mukalla airport in the eastern Yemen. Since then, we’ve seen confirmation of this with the crash there of…

Right. I’ve been a split-brain blogger for the last month, putting all my election stuff over at General Election ’05. After tonight, there will be more TYR. There is some interesting news to come on what, exactly, is going on in the Yemen. On that theme, you will probably be pleased to know that our…

(With apologies to Gough Whitlam) It’s time to do a final election post. If you haven’t voted yet, kindly take a moment to read through the archives. We’ve had masses of Iraq and secret detention, mass surveillance, any amount of stupidity, cash-burning PFIs, schools controlled by anyone who will stump up one-tenth of their cost,…

It’s all over the press that various killer documents have been leaked: including the Foreign Office’s legal advice on the admissibility or otherwise of a war with Iraq, and the detail that contrary to his repeated denials, Tony Blair read it, and even further that Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6, told the government…