2004 Newsnotes

Comments I have made in a magazine called Labour & Trade Union Review, now Labour Affairs.

2004: February,

• Judges In Denial;
• Guilty even if innocent;
• Reinventing Iraq (preferably with no Iraqis in it);
• New Cross blaze;
• Speed Cameras: The Right To Slaughter;
• Land of the Fat & Free.

March,

• Eagle-Doves and Sinking Ships;
• Republicans as Post-Liberals;
• Russia’s Broke, Putin Fixes It;
• Microsieve;
• Gerrymandering anti-Semitism;
• 2+2=5, says the UN;
• Axis Of Rather Nice People;
• True Prophets, Too Good To Be True;
• Two Whatevers Pompously Partnered for Serial Polygamy;
• Mars: the wet look;
• Civil Servants.

May,

• Victory at al-Fallujah;
• A Roughly Civilised Society [Iraq];
• Fragging By Internet [Abu Ghraib abuse photos];
• The Mirror Cracked? [Britain in Iraq];
• Paper Tiger, Sleeping Warrant [Accusations against Muqtada al-Sadr];
• Speedboats don’t grow on trees [Iraq and oil];
• Book-Of-Revelations Diplomacy [Israel];
• Innocent Until Proven Irish? [IRA men in Columbia].

August,

• The Pro-Death Lobby [Road Safety];
• Roll out the $50 barrel;
• China Violates The Rights Of Money!;
• Faster, stronger, higher, crooked, unhealthy [Sport];
• Robots & Racist Dollars [Hollywood values];
• Boldly Going, Where No One Really Needs To Go [People in space];
• Iraq and the Overclass;
• Kerryisms [US Election];
• Korean Security.

October,

• Endings [Death of Arafat];
• One Nation, Dishonest To God [US Elections not Red and Blue];
• Distraction tactics [Stem Cells];
• Dogwood allied limits [Iraq]

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