underlining the UK's committment to get rid of its nuclear weapons (as legally required under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty), £70,000,000,000 is being spent on replacing and maintaining the next generation of Trident nuclear submarines

so US goons torture this guy for 2 years, and then claim he's confessed to being a terrorist
- big deal -
torture me for 2 days and i'd confess to being bin Laden's mother

it is claimed that Exxon spent $16 million between 1998 and 2005 on 'disinformation tactics' to undermine climate change science

the UK's Health and Safety at Work Act came into force in 1974

since then 10,000 people have died at work but only 11 directors have been convicted of manslaughter

"It's not our fault" - Tony Blair (talking about the situation in Iraq)

well it's certainly not the fault of the two million people who marched thru Central London past Downing Street to Trafalgar Square in February 2003

"There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath."

- Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

about 40% of women murdered in the UK are killed by their current or former partners

96% of the the people arrested for terrorist offenses in the UK during the last 5 years have not yet been convicted

75% of the oil profits from Iraq are planned to go to foreign companies

every year 90,000 people die of infections picked up in US hospitals, and now joining in the fray is the new superbug hero -
Acinetobacter baumannii

It's not Bush and Blair's "war on terror" that worries me, so much as their war on truth

UK executive pay is increasing 17 times faster than average wage rises

trickle-down economics? sounds more like trickle-up to me

6,500,000,000 people wishing for peace on Earth
spend $1,200,000,000,000 a year on arms

every hour the world's population increases by 9,000 people;
each day the world's population increases by more than 200,000

no wonder there are so many wars over resources

Britain has spent UKP 12.5M on reconstruction contracts in Basra - whereas it spent UKP 14M refurbishing one of Saddam's palaces for use as the British consulate building
(which has now been evacuated following mortar attacks)

Blair claims it's essential that the UK has an independent nuclear deterrent - so how come it's not needed by Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, Brazil etc?

and if the UK really does need it, then surely Iran needs it even more?

"So far as the United States seems to be concerned, it is only a slight overstatement to say that Moslems and Arabs are essentially seen as either oil suppliers or potential terrorists." - Edward Said (1980)

if the function of the UN is to moderate conflict between nations, why is NATO fighting a war in Afghanistan? oil pipelines to Europe?

i've just removed my links to Al Jazeera -
their new site disappoints -
no Shujaat; culture and environment sections gone; bad design; bugs

if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

for the UK to achieve full democracy it needs proportional representation, an elected second chamber and an elected head of state