Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: September 8, 2009
The compassionate release of terminally ill Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, and weak political parties in the UK vying for support in a climate of ill-confidence in our MP’s, has combined to cause controversy over a decision that otherwise, should only have raised controversy of a marginal and brief kind.
There are obvious and various reasons [...]
Posted by: Carlos Hurworth on: August 15, 2009
With the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, and the welcoming of US troops into Iraq came scenes of liberation and freedom, which saw people burning effigies of the former tyrant, tearing down statues and defacing the giant portraits of Saddam on the city’s walls. They were scenes of jubilation, graphic in their depiction of a [...]
