There can be very few people in the UK today who would not gladly see the death penalty restored, if only for the man standing trial for the murder of two 10 year old girls. Today Huntley took the stand and claimed “I did not intend to kill girls “. His description of the ‘accidental death’ of the two girls followed by his disposal of their bodies- which included burning them with petrol to ‘remove evidence’ will have rocked a... Read more

Another competition for you- this time its the 2003 Weblog awards which has many different categories. I especially like the ‘FOREIGN’ category which although not defined, I assume equates to non-American! That’ll be my category then! Does that mean all other categories can only be won by Americans I ask myself? Read more

The Associated Press: “Forget the bread-and-water routine. Saudi Arabian interrogators often bring a Quran, the Muslim holy book, to their prison interviews, using a technique that has proved successful in eliciting information from al-Qaida captives and reorienting them to less violent religious beliefs.” Read more

After all I said earlier today about the Kingdom of blogs and how I was doing my best to get back to real blogging, why did it cause some interest to me that I have made a jump in the Ecosystem. It seems if the contest was about drawing peoples attention to some lowly blogs like mine then it has succeeded. Today I jump to being a Flapping Bird (a high honour indeed for a blog thats less than a... Read more

more living, less punditrystates the: “Top 10 Dangers of Living in the Blog Space “ Read more

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After Blunket stated the man arrested in the UK had links to Al Quida the Attorney general is to investigate him for a potential contempt of court. It is a good thing that we still live in a society that has some respect for law, but concerning that our home secretary felt it was appropriate to make the comments he did. Read more

A liberal suggests that we should stop attacking countries that don’t espouse Western values: “, and leave them to evolve in their own way at their own rate. That policy is to invest the billions that the US is now spending on arms, to instead provide those countries with humanitarian aid — money and supplies for education, infrastructure-building, medicines, and civilian technologies and training in how to use them. No strings attached except that we need to be able to... Read more

As a suspected terrorist is arrested the UK and explosives have been recovered at his house in Gloucester the police have stated to the BBC NEWS: “We are at the highest level of alert in the country and we can go no further ” It seems there is also thought to be an active North African cell planning an iminent strike and they currently have NOT been traced. Read more