Guarded Reason

• Put Your Own House In Order First From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1341 days old)

  Saw part of a programme about Childline last night. I didn't want to listen but felt compelled to hear a young man's account of how all the adults he had known as a child abused him. How the justice s… more

• Diagnosing Imperialism: No 5, Patient Believes Their Actions Are Beyond Question From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1342 days old)

  Tony Blair "There is no excuse for Iran or any other country to interfere in Iraq" Quite. When are the British troops leaving, Tony ?… more

• Playtime From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1343 days old)

  Pakistan made their own, gave out the recipe then said no-one else can use it Israel claims it doesn't have any India pretends its part of the big boys gang No-one's seen North Korea for ages and C… more

• New Labour, Mediaeval Decision Making From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1344 days old)

  So now we know why Blair ignored the UN Inspectors, ignored the UN Security Council, ignored the vast majority of the world's leaders, ignored his own legal advice, ignored all those who said it would… more

• Lying for a Living From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1347 days old)

  So Jowel didn't know about hundreds of thousands of pounds ? Gurum-Murphy had her banged to rights when he pointed out that the status of previous mortgages would have been clear on the forms she sig… more

• British Endorse Iranian Fundamentalist From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1348 days old)

  OK, you won't see this headline but effectively this is what is going on. The best way to ensure the success and popularity of the Holocaust-denying religious extremist heading up the Iranian state is… more

• Invasions Solve Nothing From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1348 days old)

  excellent report from the south of Afghanistan on Channel 4 last night. just showed us the facts without telling us what we ought to think about them. a rarity indeed for British journalism. And what … more

• Our Freedom and Theirs From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1350 days old)

  I'd like to attach a health warning to last night's Dispatches. Peter Hitchins, like other right wing journalists who regularly pitch up on question time, adopts a simple tactic; champion a popular an… more

• more cops and robbers From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1350 days old)

  Inspector slaphead of the Kent Constabulary not quite so chipper now is he ? After revealing that a week after the event they haven't even found the huge white lorry even though they had close-up pict… more

• Cops and Robbers From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1351 days old)

  Always find it strange that the media make such a fuss about large robberies. Most of us regard a heist as one of the best subjects for an entertaining film judging by the popularity of the genre. Des… more

• History, Liberals and Nazis in Suits From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1351 days old)

  I'm troubled by what the jailing of David Irving has revealed. There are many comments here by young people (younger than me anyway) who all broadly agree that free speech is absolute and Irving is a … more

• An Attack on Democracy From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1353 days old)

  The suspension of Ken Livingstone, the elected London mayor, by an unelected QANGO is nothing short of a scandal. The arrogance and contempt for democracy demonstrated by these self-appointed arbitors… more

• Democracy, Free Speech and Fascism From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1354 days old)

  Many commentators are content to dismiss David Irving as a fraudulent and ridiculous figure who represents no real threat and believe therefore that jailing him was uneccessary. Others go further and … more

• Dictatorships and Disasters From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1355 days old)

  During the 1990's war raged in the Balkans as the Yugoslavian federation broke up. All war is nasty but these produced more than their quota of rape, torture and murder. To understand why this happene… more

• A Bunch of Bankers From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1356 days old)

  The most frightening aspect of the headlong and headless rush towards a stalinist style police state is the readiness of the media to aquiess. Once again last night I watched in disbelief as a journal… more

• Bird Flu From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1357 days old)

  The flu approaches ever nearer, the rest of Europe is gathering up its flocks and our Government says we don't need to do anything yet. Why ? Because they are populist, media-obsessed panderers to the… more

• Why not try both suspects ? From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1361 days old)

  More Americans stepping forward to say Rumsfeld should go. An outbreak of conscience it probably isn't; more likely they now see him as a liability rather than an asset. No-one is saying he did anythi… more

• New Terror Law From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1362 days old)

  Will it now become illegal to say that Hamas is running a democratically elected government in Palestine and we should respect the decision of the Palestinian people whether or not attacks on Israel c… more

• Smoking Ban From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1363 days old)

  Excellent. We should have done this a long time ago. We should have a government that did what was right as soon as it knew it was right instead of waiting till it felt forced to do it. I have no t… more

• The Man Who Would Be King From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1364 days old)

  What a pathetic spectacle. Brown's been waiting all these years, finds Blair unavoidably detained and seizes the opportunity to demonstrate that he is ... every bit as right wing as Blair. He's moved … more

• Mad Monks and Mercenaries From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1365 days old)

  When the last film of British soldiers beating Iraqi civilians was aired we were told that it was from 2003 and that this doesn't happen any more. Probably even more shocking than the inaction of the … more

• Its Eye Candy and We All Have a Sweet Tooth From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1365 days old)

  It's Sunday afternoon; enough of the politics, if you really want to court controversy you have to generalise about men and women. So here goes. Heterosexual men are attracted by women's bodies. I … more

• Waiting for Gordo From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1366 days old)

  Clear from his interview on BBC1 this morning that those expecting some enlightenment when Brown takes over will be short-changed. His solution to our safety ? More security, more police, less freedom… more

• Dunfermline By Election From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1366 days old)

  Not surprised. I lived in scotland during the Thatcher era. Scottish people were never duped by her promise of popular capitalism and showed a tenacious loyalty to Labour. A loyalty that was betrayed … more

• Red Flags and Retribution From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1368 days old)

  Can't let Dianne Abbot's revelation from This Week go without comment. The parliamentary Labour Party singing The Red Flag ? In the House of Commons ? Hardly an indication of emerging socialism. The… more

• Dr Strangelove Rides Again From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1369 days old)

  Maybe I dozed off but the only thing I can remember from last night's news is Condoleezza Rice accusing Iran and Syria of encouraging the protests over the cartoons and saying that violence is unaccep… more

• Hamza and Griffin From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1370 days old)

  Remarkable how similar the racist thuggery of Abu Hamza and the fascist Nick Griffin. But how dissimilar is the treatment of the two. Whatever the game played by British security over the last ten yea… more

• Ration the Military From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1371 days old)

  Herceptin in the news again. Why do media commentators accept that there is rationing - a limited pot as they prefer to call it - in the health service and indeed in education and most spending that b… more

• cartoon capers From richard_arnold in Guarded Reason (1371 days old)

  It was extraordinary to see Jack Straw, having been invisible for months because he was out of his depth over Iraq, chastising newspapers for being insensitive to Muslims. Cartoons don't kill, bombs d… more

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