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Ambassadors' letter to Blair Here is the letter sent by more than 50 former British ambassadors to Tony Blair, urging him either to influence US policy in the Middle East or to stop backing it: .................. We the undersigned former British ambassadors, high commissioners, governors and...

An Interesting Account of a meeting between media moguls. Richard Desmond is the owner of the Express newspaper group, quite a wide-selling bunch of papers in the UK. Which makes this all the more scary: Wow. And my mother reads the Sunday Express :(

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/11/1081621835663.html?from=top5 I think that saying goes "War is diplomacy by other means". Just having superior firepower is not enough to resolve a conflict. And another view on American blunders in strategy...

Following on from the parents convicted of murder or separated from their children because of the flawed evidence of expert witnesses in cot death cases, there now appears to be a number of appeals about to come before the court of teachers accused of crimes against children in their care. The...

How embarrassing... http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/8454173?source=Evening%20Standard

Or maybe I fell asleep during one news story and woke up during another...

Here is a good article on the matter: http://www.ied.info/books/ed/british.html Too much to try and quote, but read it if you are interested in the subject.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10631808.htm