Is the IRA’s War Over?
About ten years ago the IRA planted a bomb at Leeds railway station. It was in some kind of electrical connection box in or near the car park. When it blew up it made a bit of a bang, quite a bit of smoke and rocked the train going by at the time. I know [...]
Shoot to Kill
In the Jerusalem Post Tom Gross comments:
‘Had Israeli police shot dead an innocent foreigner on one of its buses or trains, confirming the kill with a barrage of bullets at close range in a mistaken effort to thwart a bombing, the UN would probably have been sitting in emergency session by late afternoon to unanimously [...]
Suicide Bombers
On the Radio 4 PM programme today friends and neighbours of the Yorkshire suicide bombers were being interviewed. I don’t really know how to respond: on the one hand I think it’s colossal bad taste to broadcast what nice chaps these mass murderers actually were to the prople who knew them. One worked in a [...]
The War Comes to London
Today it was our turn at last. After the World Trade Center, Bali, Madrid, Mombasa, now London. Clearly the attacks are the work of Al Qaeda or their allies: the modus operandi is virtually the same as the Madrid attacks – multiple attacks on the transport system of a major city, coordinated to [...]
Live 8
Sometimes it’s really tough being a free-marketeer. Telling friends and acquaintances that you really think that Live 8 is a circus based on entirely bogus political assumptions is hard work when people just look at you as though you’ve just expressed personal approval for the starvation of African children.
So it is to some extent gratifying [...]
Tackling Christian Anti-Semitism
Following the disgraceful motion passed by the Anglican Consultative Council in relation to Israel, and the report by the so-called Anglican Peace and Justice Network, it is heartening that some of my fellow Anglicans are resisting the drift back to a medieval anti-Semitism. Note this new blog which calls attention to the judeophobic viewpoint of [...]