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It would appear that the Foreign Affairs Select Committee report has let the Downing St Director of Strategic Communications, Alistair Campbell, aka Consultant Spin Doctor, “Riviera Gigolo”, hate figure of the Right, the Left, the Media and probably the church too, wannabe Scotsman, reformed alkie and all-round political thug off the charge of interfering with…

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Compare that heap of mad tosh with http://spewingforth.blogspot.com, an excellent US site blogging news on workers’ rights to protection from injury at work. This is a great example of a serious blog covering real live news that is insufficiently reported elsewhere. They’ve earned the right to a permanent Ranter link. Note – net dogs need…

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The deaths of the 6 military policemen in al-Amara have pointed up just how dangerous and – especially- unpredictable Iraq has become. Despite the weird, heroic old-empire nature of the incident – the last stand in the police station against a thousand-strong armed mob – it shows yet again how politically and technically poor the…

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There’s been a certain amount of terror porn concerning an aeroplane stolen in Angola, which major media have recently picked up on as a supposed “9/11 plot”. But the story isn’t new, and the reality may be much less dramatic. This was the first report I saw of it, on the 28th of May. Aviation-related…

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