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The senior investigating judge in Spain and scourge of human rights violators around the world, Baltasar Garzón, has been reported to the Supreme Court for allegedly acting beyond his competencies in ordering the exhumation of people who died in the Spanish Civil War, amongst other things (BBC, El Pais). The complaints were filed by three [...]

I do not doubt the Armenian Genocide for a moment; however, as I argued a couple of years ago, both it and the Shoah are sui generis; there is nothing to be gained in giving its nomenclature an official imprimatur and much to be lost. Firstly, I think the precedent of governments sanctioning official histories [...]

I’ve spent the past few days in Kyiv, Ukraine. One way and another, I’m travelling quite a lot at the moment, but all I tend to see is the inside of hotels and conference centres, so I was determined to do a tour of Kyiv. Unfortunately, by the time the allotted day came round, I [...]

The headline on the front page of the new, positive London Evening Standard reads 10 troops died and ‘only 150 Afghans voted’ Note the quotation marks. What’s inside them is never referenced to anyone. The ‘story’ is that only 150 people voted in Babaji. A second story is that ten British soldiers died in Operation [...]

Ahead of tomorrow’s poll, I thought it might be useful to look at who’s still in the race for the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Runners and riders come below the fold along with a brief comment from me.

Yes, I’m biased towards Labour, but the boy done good. H/T The Wardman Wire. xD.

Conservatives for Patients’ Rights (CPRights) have a video up decrying government healthcare. The NHS has its problems; no-one would say that it is perfect. However, it does a pretty damned good job and it does so regardless of someone’s ability to pay. While we don’t see the faces of private healthcare – or those who [...]

“The Iraq war was a disaster” is a familiar refrain. Unfortunately, that doesn’t tell us very much. Do we mean the concept, the planning, the implementation, the strategy, the tactics, what? Or do we want an official stick with which to beat the government? Were the problems with the Iraq war just the basis on [...]

Further to my post on the Spanish regional elections, the leader of the Socialists in the Basque Country (PSE-EE, the local chapter of PSOE) has been elected lehendakari, or First Minster of the Basque Country, following a deal with the Popular Party. Quite what this will mean I don’t know; it breaks the hold of [...]