Blair

Rory Bremner is very clever. The make-up people deserve every penny they get. This sketch contains all the Blair tics and tacs. Pity the real man could not have been so productive.

Habeas Corpus

The Iranian attitude towards the hostage situation still dominates British minds. Google shows just how much.

I hear comments that "Maggie would not have done it this way". Sure, her attitude to Argentina over the Falklands was "Go away or go to war". Those days are well past. We have been the world's puppy dog for a long while thanks to the jackass idiot of a Prime Minister. We have insufficient resources of men and materials to persecute two tiny wars still less add another major contest. Anything we even started to do in the way of serious would need the backing of USA. I'm not sure they would want this even as a willing proxy in their own problems with Iran.

So much for New Labour and enlightened foreign policies. We cannot even keep our Queen safe from insult at a public ceremony.