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Tom Bingham – here is the link.
Posted by Alexander Harper, Thursday, May 19, 2011Tom Bingham – a truly great Briton. Article by Peter Oborne in Daily Telegraph
Posted by Alexander Harper, Thursday, May 19, 2011Gingrich cannot be serious – FT, Jurek martin
Posted by Alexander Harper, Thursday, May 19, 2011Please – can we now end the ‘war on terror’?
Posted by Alexander Harper, Monday, May 2, 2011Only business can put Obama back on top – Mort Zuckerman, FT
Posted by Alexander Harper, Friday, December 17, 2010Why a forlorn Karzai is breaking with the west – Ahmed Rashid (FT)
The Afghan situation is far too complex and nuanced for the average voters in NATO countries with their limited attention spans and/or access to serious news either to understand or to see through (if seeing it through is really the answer). There has been endless chopping and changing and handwringing by western politicians and the Afghans seem to be completely bewildered. One should not underestimate either the malign influence Pakistan's ISI.Posted by Alexander Harper, Thursday, November 18, 2010
High time to legalize marijuana – FT editorial today.
Posted by Alexander Harper, Wednesday, October 27, 2010Why the American public is suing Dr Obama – Martin Wolff, FT
The US public is behaving like a patient found dying of a heart attack within minutes of death by the side of the road, rushed off to hospital and saved and then two years later suing the doctor, who saved them, with the argument that they would have been better off and recovered on their own if he had left them at the side of the road.Posted by Alexander Harper, Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Time for the great orator to talk back – Simon Schama, FT
The trouble is that Obama's wonderful powers of classical oratory are not what a public, fed on reality TV, Fox News and Glenn Beck, wants. 'Against ignorance even the Gods strive in vain...'Posted by Alexander Harper, Wednesday, October 27, 2010
