I think its the inquisitive child in me that always wants to know what goes on behind closed doors, particularly if an air of exclusivity surrounds those doors. Its not that I want to be part of the world that lies behind, I don’t think its really my kind of thing but I do like [...]
Are we actually supposed to believe this?
BBC News : Moussaoui lies ‘let 9/11 happen’
Seems quite dramatic, the story of the 20th hijacker on September 11th 2001 captured by US agents to stand trial for his crimes.
“Moussaoui said he was to be accompanied by British shoe bomber Richard Reid.”
That’s right, the bright spark who attempted [...]
Its not normally my habit to just copy/paste from other sites but I think this story makes for important reading. Source : Morgan Stanley, Global Economic Forum
Stephen Roach (from Dubai) :
My travel schedule is planned months in advance. It was only by happenstance that I found myself in both Beijing and Dubai this past [...]
Not only is that quite a mouthful but it sounds really dull doesn’t it? Did images of old men in legal wiggery shuffling about parliament clutching mountains of dusty old parchment cross your mind for a moment? That was my reaction when I first heard about this new piece of legislation but all is not [...]
I’ve been having one of those busy social kind of weekends mostly drinking and eating with friends and very nice it was too. The atmosphere in Cactus Blue is very lively of a Friday night with live DJs mixing a funky groove and the more down tempo jazz at the 606 Club was quite enriching [...]
Looking at your site access logs can be quite revealing about what people are looking for when they come across your blog. Any pretension that I was any kind of authority on anything meaningful soon went up in a puff of blue smoke when I recently examined the search engine terms that have linked people [...]
So that I don’t get behind in the upgrade cycle I have upgraded my Wordpress (blogging) software. A slightly fiddly but painless process so my thanks to the Wordpress development team for another superior web authoring tool. Its the best.
So a bunch of left-wing writers have got together and knocked-up a Manifesto: Together facing the new totalitarianism to warn the world of the impending threat of Islamism, well thank you guys I never would have noticed there was any problem if it hadn’t been for you clever chaps. I use the phrase “knocked-up” because [...]
