February 25, 2006

So far I haven’t really engaged with the row about Dubai Ports World buying P&O. Frankly, I don’t particularly care about grand icons of British industry changing hands – if you don’t think they should be nationalised, it follows that you should welcome that the stock market decides on the allocation of capital between publicly…

Whilst we’re in Iraq mode (is this blog ever in anything else? How will it ever return to civil life? Will it end up begging for hits by the roadside with a sign – Iraq Veteran, Please Give Generously Of Your Attention?), yet another of those reports on how many Iraqi army units can fight…

Well, this is going to be a serious post about serious military issues, but first, some light relief. Danielle “Arik Sharon in Stockings” Pletka editorialises against the CIA’s liberal agenda. Apparently they hate freedom so much they issued “inaccurate warnings of civil war in Iraq”. This appeared the day before whoever-it-was blew up the mosque.…