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Aaronovitch, David
support for Iraq war 28 03 05
Abbas, Ali Ismaeel
Iraqi boy in UK to be fitted with artificial limbs 09 03
Abbasi, Feroz
story of his capture and detention 08 03
US decides he is a terrorist - after 30 months in Guantanamo 26 07 04
Adler, Larry
brief appreciation 09 01
Adonis, Andrew
Blair's Christian advisor makes education policy 11 02
appointed education minister 16 05 05
pushes for schools to teach synthetic phonics 12 12 05
Afghanistan
taxi driver Dilawar hung by wrists and beaten till dead 20 06 05
Africa
Gordon Brown calls for aid, debt cancellation, fair trade 24 01 05
G8 Gleneagles summit - Blair puts African poverty on agenda 18 07 05
Alcohol
Jowell's Licensing Act allows 24 hour drinking 4 10 04
Al-Gahnem, Hamza
12 year old Baghdad boy born during first Gulf War 04 03
Al-Jazeera
US effectively shuts down website 04 03
Allawi, Ayad
Iraq's interim Prime Minister a former CIA spy 5 07 04
shoots 7 prisoners 9 08 04
ex CIA officers say he has 'blood on his hands' and is 'a thug' 9 08 04
closes al-Jazeera studios 9 08 04
his huge advantages during election campaign 7 02 05
Animals (see also Hunting; Vivisection)
frog for breakfast - a heron in the garden 05 01
turkey trade cruelty 9 02 04
bird flu - chickens buried alive 9 02 04
GM animals used in organ transplant experiments 9 02 04
Cambridgeshire NHS Trust starves pregnant mice 9 02 04
I'm a celebrity participants eat/trample live insects 9 02 04
Cambridge confirms it is abandoning primate lab 9 02 04
matador gored by bull 28 06 04
tour firm offers trips to Norway to kill baby seals 11 10 04
northern bottlenose whale dies in the Thames 30 01 06
Animal Welfare Bill 13 02 06
Shark fin soup - cruelty involved 13 02 06
Pate de foie gras - cruelty involved 13 02 06
Vietnamese bear farms 13 02 06
Spanish greyhounds' painful deaths 13 02 06
Apple Computer
sued over safety of iPods 20 02 06
Armed forces
Deepcut barracks deaths - no full investigation 6 12 04
culture of cruelty in Russian army 6 02 06
Art
Ana Maria Pacheco's Dark Night of the Soul at the Ashmolean 07 01
Ashcroft, John
pushes for even more death sentences 03 03
Asquith, Herbert
sought Lords reform in 1911 Parliament Act 3 04 06
Asylum and immigration
Daily Mail campaign leads to abuse and threats 11 02
tabloids exploit fear and prejudice 17 05 04
Michael Howard's views on asylum and immigration 31 01 05
Auschwitz
see Holocaust
Barclays Bank
closes branches, sacks staff, pays Chief Executive £30m 11 00
BBC
Hutton exonerates government, slates BBC for Gilligan report 2 02 04
poor programmes and irritating programme trailers 2 02 04
government bombards with complaints, demands apologies 23 02 04
Beauty contests
Nigerian Muslims dislike Miss World but stoning women is OK 12 02
Beckett, Margaret
supports EU proposals to allow growing of GM crops in Britain 10 03
Begg, Moazzam
story of his capture and detention 08 03
Bell, David
see OFSTED
Bible
Bible Code author Michael Drosnin claims Bible is work of aliens 01 03
Blair, Cherie
see Booth, Cherie
Blair, Sir Ian (Metropolitan Police Commissioner)
on killing of Jean Charles de Menezes 22 08 05
BLAIR, TONY AND HIS GOVERNMENTS
Animal welfare
Animal Welfare Bill 13 02 06
Armed forces
Deepcut barracks deaths - no full investigation 6 12 04
initiatives on bullying in schools but not army 6 12 04
Bush, George - relations with
support for Iraq war - our 'shared values' 02 03
Bush's poodle on Iraq and GM 10 03
denies knowledge of CIA extraordinary renditions 19 12 05
Business
Directory Enquiries competition results in chaos 12 03
Corporal punishment
won't ban smacking of children - afraid of Daily Mail 07 03
Clarke - no ban on smacking in Children's Bill 21 06 04
Democracy
claims and record in the middle east 22 11 04
Education
policy 04 01
wins university top-up fees vote in Commons 2 02 04
initiatives on bullying in schools but not army 6 12 04
Woodhead, privatisation, selection etc 3 01 05
Kelly - schools to discuss education with parents 7 03 05
public opposition to faith schools - poll 1 08 05
pursuit of Tory policies 14 11 05
policy made by Adonis 14 11 05
attack on comprehensive schools 14 11 05
2005 White paper - 'dog's breakfast' 14 11 05
treatment of education secretaries 14 11 05
says schools best when they're free 12 12 05
refuses to heed criticisms of 2005 white paper 9 01 06
white paper proposals criticised by many 23 01 06
admits lying over selection, abandons 2006 Bill (spoof!) 20 03 06
citizenship education - example set by government 22 05 06
Election campaigns and results
2001 landslide - my thoughts on the result 06 01
Blair's spin on dreadful local election results 14 06 04
week in Iraq - Blair avoids it in election campaign 25 04 05
2005 - 100,000 reasons why I won't vote Labour 2 05 05
2005 - reduced majority and low vote 9 05 05
Environment
caves in to fuel protesters, scraps tax increase 7 06 04
G8 Gleneagles 18 07 05
Europe
euro - lack of leadership 04 01
euro - lack of enthusiasm 08 02
Gay rights
repeals Section 28 12 03
Genetically modified food
ignoring public views 04 01
wants us to start loving GM food 09 02
Sainsbury gives Labour £2.5m - buys GM decision? 05 03
similarities in handling of GM and Iraq war 10 03
Gibraltar
British celebrations upset Spanish 9 08 04
Government
'joined up government'? 6 12 04
Blunkett's resignation 3 01 05
says he'll listen - to Woodward, Drayson, Adonis 16 05 05
ever-increasing use of unaccountable advisors 1 08 05
pursues Thatcherite policies 31 10 05
pursues Tory policies
lack of enthusiasm for Lords reform 3 04 06
abuse of the word 'reform' in public services 1 05 06
Health
Caborn and Jowell back Cadbury schools promotion 31 05 04
Hunting
lack of enthusiasm for a ban 04 01
pro-hunt protesters storm the Commons 20 09 04
MPs vote overwhelmingly for ban - 5th time 20 09 04
attempts to subvert Commons will on ban 22 11 04
ban after squalid political shenanigans 21 02 05
Clarke says police can ignore lawbreakers 21 02 05
International development
Africa - aid, debt cancellation, fair trade 24 01 05
G8 Gleneagles - African poverty 18 07 05
Iraq
Blair's dodgy Iraq 'dossiers' 03 03
talks of 'victory' and 'serious short-term problems' 05 03
similarities in handling of GM and Iraq war 10 03
refuses to admit Saddam uranium story was false 10 03
says 'we have nothing to apologise for' 11 03
retreats on WMD claims 26 01 04
Hutton slates BBC for Gilligan report 2 02 04
Bush WMD inquiry forces Butler inquiry 9 02 04
Blair's reasons for going to war 22 03 04
spins Libya's WMD decision as result of Iraq war 29 03 04
lies about the 'handover' of power on 30 06 2004 19 04 04
Blair still believes in Iraq's WMD 12 07 04
Butler report shows Gilligan was right all along 19 07 04
Blair says 'No one lied' on Iraq 19 07 04
initiatives announced to divert attention from Iraq 26 07 04
situation in Iraq 18 months after war began 13 09 04
1,000th US soldier dies 13 09 04
UK troops move - military issue not US politics 25 10 04
different stance on Saddam and Mugabe 29 11 04
revulsion at killing of innocent Iraqis 7 03 05
week in Iraq - Blair avoids it in election campaign 25 04 05
my views on why Blair went to war on Iraq 2 05 05
100,000 reasons why I won't vote Labour 2 05 05
Justice
slow to take up cases of UK Guantanamo inmates 08 03
panders to tabloids, keeps Maxine Carr in gaol 16 02 04
Iran arrests 8 UK sailors - Straw's demands 28 06 04
UK breaks ECHR and UN Torture Convention 16 08 04
raises human rights, torture with N Korea 13 09 04
children in gaol - stricter rules 18 10 04
juries, ID cards, ECHR Article 5 etc 3 01 05
my view of Blair's record on justice 2 05 05
denies knowledge of CIA extraordinary renditions 19 12 05
Media
attempts to appease the right-wing press 07 02
allows takeover of ITV/Ch 5 by foreigners 10 02
panders to tabloids, keeps Maxine Carr in gaol 16 02 04
bombards BBC with complaints 23 02 04
2005 Labour conference - Channel 4 excluded 10 10 05
Nuclear power
wants new generation of power stations 17 10 05
Nuclear weapons
prepares Aldermaston for new generation 15 08 05
criticises Iran while preparing to replace Trident 16 01 06
Poverty
poverty gap 04 01
Privatisation (see also Public services)
previously critical of 04 01
obsession with 08 01 5 12 05
Public services (see also Privatisation)
education, health, police, railways 01 02
abuse of the word 'reform' in 1 05 06
Religion
danger of mixing politics and religion 03 01
promotes science but supports creationist academy 06 02
public opposition to faith schools - poll 1 08 05
Social issues
Blair attacks the values of the 1960s 30 08 04
policies on media, gambling, junk food, alcohol 4 10 04
respect, hoodies, ASBOs, 'dispersal area' case 30 05 05
Terrorism
my letter about war on and reply from FCO 11 01
urges IRA to renounce violence for solving disputes 06 03
Blair on terrorism, human rights, rule of law etc 15 03 04
£8m for booklet on preparing for terrorist attack 2 08 04
UK Muslims on terror offences, hard to believe? 23 08 04
2001 Act - Law Lords damning report 14 03 05
Clarke's Prevention of Terrorism Bill 14 03 05
Trust, honesty, hypocrisy
public doubt truthfulness of politicians 25 10 04
demands Livingstone apologise to reporter 21 02 05
my disillusionment with Blair (very long list!) 2 05 05
says he'll listen - to Woodward, Drayson, Adonis 16 05 05
concerned about his place in history 18 07 05
Vivisection
Sainsbury vows to complete Oxford primates lab 2 08 04
Blunkett calls animal protesters 'terrorists' 2 08 04
Blears, Hazel
wants more flouridation 10 02
welcomes Law Lords 'clarification' on torture 19 12 05
Blix, Hans
US and UK throw him out of Iraq 06 03
Blunkett, David
Labour education policy 04 01
backs Daily Mail asylum campaign 11 02
extradition treaty with US removes safeguards for UK citizens 08 03
responds to my letter about detention and torture 5 01 04
calls animal protesters 'terrorists' 2 08 04
his resignation 3 01 05
Woodhead, privatisation, selection etc 3 01 05
jury trials, ID cards, detention without trial etc 3 01 05
'Read my lips - no selection' 3 01 05
Lord Hoffmann's criticism of arbitrary arrest and detention 3 01 05
Bolton, John
campaigns against International Criminal Court 12 03
nominated by Bush as US Ambassador to the UN 21 03 05; 4 07 05
John Bolton wrecks NPT Review Conference 05 2005 15 08 05
Booth, Cherie
nutty beliefs - Daily Mail campaigns against her but is just as bad 01 03
Boothroyd, Betty
retires as Speaker of the House of Commons 10 00
Bremer, Paul
says power doesn't come out of barrel of a gun 19 04 04
hands 'sovereignty' back to Iraqis 5 07 04
British National Party (BNP)
claims it is not a racist party 7 06 04
leaders' convictions - violence, hooliganism, burglary, theft etc 7 06 04
Veritas member Anthony Bennett - links with BNP 7 02 05
2005 election - poor result 9 05 05
Brown, Gordon
visits Africa - calls for aid, debt cancellation and fair trade 24 01 05
calls on Britons to be proud to be British 30 01 06
Bull fighting
matador gored by bull 28 06 04
Bullying
government combats it in schools but not in the army 6 12 04
BUSH, GEORGE AND HIS ADMINISTRATIONS
Business
diet and obesity - supports sugar barons against WHO 26 01 04
Halliburton benefits from Baghdad, New Orleans 12 09 05
Christian right
influence on sex education and sexual health policies 06 02
role of in Bush's re-election 8 11 04
Terri Schiavo case - speaks of 'culture of life' 21 03 05
Death penalty
wants Saddam Hussein executed 5 01 04
Democracy
claims and record in the middle east 22 11 04
'countries shouldn't interfere in other nations' affairs' 21 02 05
lectures world on, his record at home and abroad 28 02 05
claims democracy spreading across middle east 28 03 05
Election campaigns and results
2004's ugly presidential campaign 1 11 04
Bush wins second term 8 11 04
role of the religious right in Bush's re-election 8 11 04
loss of support in second term 4 07 05
Environment
pulls US out of Kyoto agreement 03 01
record on, states take their own action 4 07 05
G8 Gleneagles summit - Bush limits outcomes 18 07 05
effects of policies in Baghdad and New Orleans 12 09 05
Guantanamo Bay
what it says about us 02 02
Bush says US in tradition of Magna Carta 28 02 05
Cheney compares Guantanamo to holiday camp 4 07 05
more criticism of the Guantanamo regime 4 07 05
ignores worldwide calls for Guantanamo to be closed 27 02 06
Health
diet and obesity - supports sugar barons against WHO 26 01 04
Hypocrisy
hostility to Iran while supplying cruise missiles to Israel 11 03
'countries shouldn't interfere in other nations' affairs' 21 02 05
lectures world on, his record at home and abroad 28 02 05
Rice tells Lebanon, Syria to abide by people's wishes 7 03 05
Terri Schiavo case - speaks of 'culture of life' 21 03 05
criticises Iraq for illegal detentions and prisoner abuse 21 03 05
tells Putin that in US you're innocent till proven guilty 20 06 05
International relations
Bush versus the rest of the world 08 01
relations with Europe reach a new low 06 02
secures sacking of OPCW Director General Jose Bustani 06 02
refuses to recognise ICC 06 02
refuses to sign UN Declaration on Children's Rights 06 02
list of examples of refusal to cooperate with rest of world 02 03
hostility to Bush's state visit to Britain 10 03
bullies countries into not complying with ICC 12 03
detests Chavez - support for 2002 coup 23 08 04
response to tsunami - his motives 10 01 05
'countries shouldn't interfere in other nations' affairs' 21 02 05
lectures other countries on democracy and rule of law - his record at home and abroad 28 02 05
Rice tells Lebanon, Syria to abide by people's wishes 7 03 05
John Bolton to UN, Paul Wolfowitz to World Bank 21 03 05
claims democracy spreading across middle east 28 03 05
tells Putin that in US you're innocent till proven guilty 20 06 05
G8 summit at Gleneagles - Bush limits outcomes 18 07 05
row over CIA extraordinary renditions 19 12 05
Iraq
treats Saddam like a medieval witch 12 02
Cheney says US troops will be greeted as liberators 04 03
Cheney makes Iraq WMD claims 06 03
wants Saddam Hussein executed 5 01 04
retreats on WMD claims 26 01 04
agrees to hold an enquiry into WMD debacle 9 02 04
lies about 'handover' of power 19 04 04
Rumsfeld slates Arab TV for Fallujah civilians claims 19 04 04
compares Iraq invasion with Normandy landings 7 06 04
calls interim government's sovereignty a triumph 14 06 04
charges against Saddam - similar US crimes 5 07 04
2004 Republican Convention - support for war 6 09 04
criticises Iraq for illegal detentions and prisoner abuse 21 03 05
Rice cuts Iraq statistics from annual terrorism report 25 04 05
Cheney says insurgency 'in its last throes' 4 07 05
effects of policies in Baghdad and New Orleans 12 09 05
admits using white phosphorus in siege of Fallujah 21 11 05
Lies
bare-faced speciousness - Thanksgiving Day turkey 5 01 04
lies about 'handover' of power in Iraq 19 04 04
'Clinton lied. No-one died' - comparison with Bush 21 06 04
Rice cuts Iraq statistics from annual terrorism report 25 04 05
Nuclear weapons
hostility to Iran while supplying cruise missiles to Israel 11 03 16 01 06
develops new generation of 15 08 05
John Bolton wrecks NPT Review Conference 05 2005 15 08 05
Torture (see also Guantanamo Bay)
Alberto Gonzales Attorney General - views on torture 10 01 05
War on terror
Rice cuts Iraq statistics from annual terrorism report 25 04 05
Bush getting desperate - constant references to 9/11 4 07 05
row over CIA extraordinary renditions 19 12 05
Bustani, Jose
Bush secures his sacking as OPCW Director General 06 02
Butler, Lord
his report on Iraq intelligence shows Gilligan was right all along 19 07 04
Cambridge University
abandons plans for primates lab 03 02
vivisectionists get away with torture 09 02
confirms it is abandoning primate lab 9 02 04
Cameron, David Tory Party leader
ditches old party policies 9 01 06
Carr, Maxine
see Soham murders
Chavez, Hugo
Venezuelan President wins stunning victory in referendum 23 08 04
hated by the rich and by the US 23 08 04
Chechnya
Beslan school massacre 6 09 04
Cheney, Dick
says US troops will be greeted as liberators 04 03
makes Iraq WMD claims 06 03
compares Guantanamo to a holiday camp 4 07 05
says Iraq insurgency 'in its last throes' 4 07 05
Halliburton benefits from devastation of Baghdad and New Orleans 12 09 05
says administration never lied about Saddam's weapons 21 11 05
campaigns against anti-torture legislation 19 12 05
Children (see also Corporal punishment)
caught up in religious conflicts in Northern Ireland and the middle east 09 01
Beslan school massacre 6 09 04
vulnerable children (Rickwood, Scholes etc) commit suicide in prison 18 10 04
government's stricter rules on children in custody 18 10 04
Christmas
nothing good to say about 2003 so no Christmas letters! 5 01 04
Churchill, Winston
1950 quote on united Europe 21 06 04
Clarke, Charles
workload agreement allows non-teachers to teach 02 03
says tests 'provide children with basic numeracy and literacy' 06 03
effectively tells police they can ignore hunt lawbreakers 21 02 05
Law Lords damning report on the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act 14 03 05
Clarke's Prevention of Terrorism Bill 14 03 05
welcomes Law Lords 'clarification' on torture 19 12 05
Clinton, Bill
efforts to bring peace to the middle east 12 00
'Clinton lied. No-one died' - comparison with Bush 21 06 04
Cloning
Raelians - cult that wants to clone a human 03 02
Clwyd, Ann
refuses to admit that US attacks on Iraqi cities cause civilian deaths 19 04 04
Cohen, Jack
founder of Tesco 28 11 05
Conservative Party
Heseltine resigns from House of Commons 06 01
Heath resigns from House of Commons 06 01
Hague resigns after Labour landslide 06 01
The Conservative Party 1830 - 2001 - an obituary 10 01
Duncan-Smith claims Tory values don't need re-evaluating 11 01
Duncan-Smith unveils 25 measures for next Tory election manifesto 11 02
claim to be inclusive but vote against gay couples adopting children 11 02
proposal for education 'passports' 11 03
proposal for health 'vouchers' 11 03
Howard promises to cut taxes and provide better public services 11 03
Howard elected party leader - his appalling record 12 03
Howard publishes list of 15 'key principles' - they don't add up 19 01 04
Richard Desmond's Daily Express switches allegiance to the Tories 26 04 04
Mercer - allow homeowners to use force to protect property 13 12 04
Ancram blames 'filthy hospitals' on Blair but Tories privatised cleaning 17 01 05
Howard's views on asylum and immigration 31 01 05
Howard vows lower taxes, better services - comparison with Thatcher 31 01 05
Michael Howard says he'll put Chris Woodhead in charge of education 14 03 05
2005 campaign - immigration, tax cuts, health, education, red tape etc 18 04 05
2005 election - almost same votes as last time 9 05 05
election promise to force schools to teach synthetic phonics 12 12 05
Cameron ditches old party policies 9 01 06
Cook, Robin
death - ethical foreign policy, opposition to Iraq war 8 08 05
Corporal punishment
Swedish research suggests it doesn't work 09 01
David Hinchliffe urges government to ban the smacking of children 07 03
list of countries which ban the smacking of children 07 03
Charles Clarke refuses to include ban on smacking in Children's Bill 21 06 04
Lords reject smacking ban 12 07 04
Christian charity 'Care' opposes ban on hitting children 12 07 04
Corporate Greed
Barclays Bank 11 00
Copeland, David
gaoled for homophobic attacks 08 00
Countryside Alliance (see also Hunting)
claims hunting is a civil liberties issue 11 03
claims 59% support hunting 11 03
Creationism
Royal Society warns of rise of 24 04 06
Crime (see also Justice)
pensioner Marie Watson killed for fish supper 05 02
soft sentences - fourteen years for murder in 1829 01 03
case of Tony Martin who shot intruder Fred Barrass 13 12 04
Death
Joyce Grenfell's poem 'But life goes on' 08 02
Death penalty
facts and figures on effectiveness of 07 00
US - Gary Graham executed 07 00
US - sanctity of life, Death Row Marv (toy electric chair) 10 00
US - Bush/America's obsession with 03 03
US - Ronald Foster case 03 03
US - executing juveniles 03 03
US - Illinois commutes 167 death sentences 03 03
US - Texas refuses DNA test and kills John 'Jackie' Elliott 03 03
US - Texas - execution capital of the world 03 03
US fury at World Court decision on death row Mexicans 03 03
US - John Ashcroft pushes for even more death sentences 03 03
US court orders treatment to ensure killer is sane enough to be executed 03 03
US - Texas and other states use pancuronium bromide 12 01 04
China - She Xianglin 11 years for murdering wife, then she turns up 11 04 05
China executed 3,400 people in 2004, says Amnesty 11 04 05
Diet and health
New York's children sue McDonald's 12 02
Glaxosmithkline's disgusting Seriously Good Orange 27 06 05
Disasters
Bush's response to tsunami and his motives 10 01 05
US aid to tsunami victims would run Iraq war for 36 hours 10 01 05
Dombey, Professor Henrietta University of Brighton
criticises proposal to teach synthetic phonics 12 12 05
Drug companies
dodgy dealings of drug companies who are sucking the NHS dry 05 02
awfulness of Glaxosmithkline's ersatz orange drink 27 06 05
ethical issues raised by disastrous human drug trial 27 03 06
Oxford University clamps down on protesters' free speech 27 03 06
Duncan-Smith, Iain
claims Tory values don't need re-evaluating 11 01
unveils twenty-five measures for next Conservative election manifesto 11 02
allegation that he paid his wife public money for work she hadn't done 11 03
opposes repeal of Section 28 12 03
Education (see also Teacher unions)
Sign of the times - the strange effects of the Literacy Hour 07 01
Estelle Morris, Nigel de Gruchy argue about role of classroom assistants 12 01
Labour policies damaging education 01 02
English children now sit 105 tests and exams during their school careers 04 02
Blair's happy-clappy Christian advisor makes education policy 11 02
Clarke's workload agreement allows non-teachers to teach 02 03
unions threaten SATs boycott 06 03
heads demand end to SATs for 7 year olds 06 03
Clarke says tests 'provide children with basic numeracy and literacy' 06 03
OECD/UNESCO report - Finland's schools best - all comprehensives 08 03
Blair wins university top-up fees vote in Commons 2 02 04
OFSTED chief David Bell criticises education in the 60s and 70s 11 10 04
government initiatives to combat bullying in schools 6 12 04
Kelly - schools must 'discuss with parents their children's education' 7 03 05
Michael Howard says he'll put Chris Woodhead in charge of education 14 03 05
teacher professionalism 23 05 05
Callaghan's 'Great Debate' 23 05 05
Thatcher's reforms 23 05 05
Woodhead, Chris 23 05 05
Blunkett, David 23 05 05
worforce remodelling 23 05 05
public opposition to faith schools - poll 1 08 05
truancy - government initiatives not working 26 09 05
Blair's pursuit of Tory policies 14 11 05
policy made by Adonis 14 11 05
New Labour's attack on comprehensive schools 14 11 05
2005 White paper - 'dog's breakfast' 14 11 05
Blair's treatment of education secretaries 14 11 05
Ted Wragg dies 14 11 05
schools to be forced to teach reading by synthetic phonics 12 12 05
Blair refuses to heed criticisms of 2005 white paper 9 01 06
Blair's white paper proposals criticised by many 23 01 06
Blair admits lying about selection and abandons 2006 Bill (spoof!) 20 03 06
Royal Society warns of rise of creationism 24 04 06
NAHT campaigns against tests and league tables - 18 years too late 8 05 06
citizenship education - example set by Blair government 22 05 06
Eliot, TS
quote from Murder in the Cathedral 22 03 04
Environment
fragility of Earth's atmosphere (Bill Bryson's example) 7 06 04
fuel protesters in four-by-fours doing 12 miles to the gallon 7 06 04
France to tax gas-guzzlers and subsidise less polluting cars 28 06 04
Euro
Blair's lack of enthusiasm 08 02
no campaign's disastrous own goal 08 02
European Union
6 per cent of Britons vote UKIP in European election 21 06 04
1950 Churchill quote on united Europe 21 06 04
MEPs oust Rocco Buttiglione as Justice Commissioner 8 11 04
Euthanasia
Diane Pretty case - should we legalise it? 01 02
Execution
see Death penalty
Farming and rural affairs
subsidies 10 02
Flouridation
government wants more - pros and cons 10 02
Food Standards Agency (FSA)
website accused of being pro-GM rather than impartial 10 03
warns of 'obesity time bomb' 8 03 04
Fortuyn, Pim
Dutch politician describes Islam as a 'backward culture' 06 02
Fox hunting
see Hunting
France
plan to tax gas-guzzlers and subsidise less polluting cars 28 06 04
Gaddafy, Colonel Muammar
agrees to give up Libya's WMD 29 03 04
Galloway, George
Daily Telegraph alleges links with Saddam - based on false documents 06 03
describes 7 July London bombings as 'despicable' 11 07 05
Gambling
Jowell's Gambling Bill permits mega-casinos 4 10 04
Garlic
is repellent, say researchers 10 03
Genetically Modified food
US insists that Europe accepts GM food 11 00
research reveals problems with GM crops 09 02
Blair wants us to start loving GM food 09 02
Michael Meacher's differences with Blair over GM food 09 02
Elliott Morley reveals US pressure on Europe to accept GM food 09 02
Sainsbury gives £2.5m to Labour Party - buying pro-GM decision? 05 03
similarities behind Blair's handling of GM issue and Iraq war 10 03
Beckett supports EU proposals to allow growing of GM crops in UK 10 03
Meacher sacked for being less than enthusiastic about GM 10 03
Tim Yeo opposes commercial planting of GM crops in UK 10 03
Blair as Bush's poodle on Iraq and GM 10 03
US-based multinationals are principal beneficiaries of GM 10 03
arguments for GM and their rebuttal 10 03
Pascal Lamy presents EU's regulatory system for GMOs 10 03
Dr Arpad Pusztai sacked for raising concerns about GM health dangers 10 03
public debate 'GM Nation' reveals overwhelming hosility 10 03
Cabinet Office review of GM foods negative 16 02 04
government's science panel dubious 16 02 04
field-scale trials showed that two out of three crops 'damaged wildlife' 16 02 04
gov believes Europe should be open to GM imports and cultivation 16 02 04
public wins GM battle - all major GM firms pull out of the UK 19 04 04
damage GM soya has done to Argentina 19 04 04
disasters in 2005 29 08 05
UK votes for approval of GM maize in EU 29 08 05
pro-GM Krebs to give 2005 Royal Institution lectures 29 08 05
George, Dr Donny
pleads with US to protect Baghdad museum 06 03
Gilligan, Andrew
Murdoch's editors toe line and attack BBC over Gilligan/Kelly story 09 03
Goering, Reichsmarshall Hermann
advice on how to persuade people to go to war 08 03
Goldsmith, Lord
Attorney General goes to Washington to discuss fate of British detainees 08 03
criticises Guantanamo 23 02 04
allegations that he changed his advice in run-up to Iraq war 1 03 04
Gonzales, Alberto
Attorney General - advice on Geneva Conventions, torture 10 01 05; 4 07 05
rewarded with Attorney General post after advice on torture 27 02 06
Graham, Gary
executed by US 07 00
Green Party
2005 campaign - Iraq, energy, anti-privatisation, anti-ID cards etc 25 04 05
2005 election - poor result 9 05 05
Grenfell, Joyce
quote from poem about death 'But life goes on' 08 02
Guantanamo Bay
what it says about us 02 02
detainees denied basic rights 02 03
appalling conditions for detainees 08 03
story of Moazzam Begg's capture and detention 08 03
story of Feroz Abassi's capture and detention 08 03
unfair arrangements for tribunals 08 03
Symons's weak response to concerns about UK detainees 08 03
Daily Mail calls treament of Begg and Abassi 'a travesty of justice' 08 03
Attorney General goes to Washington to discuss fate of British detainees 08 03
Stafford Smith says US has already decided what to do with detainees 08 03
5 British detainees to be sent home 23 02 04
Lords Goldsmith and Steyn criticise Guantanamo 23 02 04
US decides Feroz Abassi is a terrorist - after two and a half years 26 07 04
summary of events during 2004 - major piece 14 02 05
Seymour Hersh's says Rumsfeld authorised Abu Ghraib abuses 14 02 05
some detainees now held for three and a half years 20 06 05
widespread condemnation of Guantanamo regime 20 06 05
Bush tells Putin that in US you're innocent till proven guilty 20 06 05
Cheney compares Guantanamo to a holiday camp 4 07 05
more criticism of the Guantanamo regime 4 07 05 19 12 05
interrogation techniques used 19 12 05
worldwide calls for Guantanamo to be closed 27 02 06
Gummer, John
lobbies US on behalf of death row inmate John 'Jackie' Elliott 03 03
Gun, Katharine
GCHQ whistleblower says US asked Britain to spy on allies 1 03 04
Habeas corpus
see Magna Carta
Hague, William
resigns after Labour landslide 06 01
Hain, Peter
criticises press for calling politicians liars 9 02 04
Halliburton
shareholders benefit from devastation of Baghdad and New Orleans 12 09 05
Harris, Dr Evan
wrong on facts about vivisection 06 01
Health (see also Diet and health; Drug companies; NHS; Obesity; School meals)
use of general anaesthesia for trivial operations and in dentistry 09 01
awfulness of Glaxosmithkline's ersatz orange drink 27 06 05
Heath, Ted
resigns from House of Commons 06 01
my support for him in 1970 election 2 05 05
death - his administration, criticisms of it, lonely man 25 07 05
Heseltine, Michael
resigns from House of Commons 06 01
Hinchliffe, David
urges government to ban the smacking of children 07 03
Hindley, Myra
dies in gaol 01 03
Hoffman, Lord
criticism of Blunkett over 'freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention' 14 03 05
Holocaust
sixtieth anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz 31 01 05
'started with a brick' says Blair 31 01 05; 10 10 05
Homophobia
David Copeland - pub bombings 08 00
arch-homophobe Baroness Young dies 10 02
Section 28 repealed 12 03
Virgin records refuses to ban homophobic rap music 28 06 04
MEPs oust Rocco Buttiglione as Justice Commissioner 8 11 04
Hoon, Geoff
feigns ignorance of the Downing Street's 'forty-five minutes' claim 06 03
says UK troops move was military issue not US politics 25 10 04
suggests compulsory voting in general elections 1 08 05
Howard, Michael
promises to cut taxes and provide better public services 11 03
elected party leader - his appalling record 12 03
publishes list of 15 'key principles' - they don't add up 19 01 04
hypocrisy - says Blair should bring back matrons 21 02 05
blames Blair for gas prices and supply 5 12 05
Hunting
weakness of arguments made for it 06 00
Labour policy 04 01
a human rights issue? 07 01
own goals - the Beaufort Hunt's dubious practices 02 02
Mallalieu gets public mood wrong 02 02
Scotland bans fox hunting 03 02
400,000 march through London for 'civil liberties' 10 02
rural residents better off than townies 10 02
Countryside Alliance claims hunting is a civil liberties issue 11 03
Countryside Alliance claims 59% support hunting 11 03
pro-hunt protesters storm the Commons 20 09 04
arguments of pro-hunters and their rebuttal 20 09 04
MPs vote overwhelmingly for ban - 5th time 20 09 04
after squalid political shenanigans, hunting becomes illegal 21 02 05
last hare coursing event - vile 21 02 05
Clarke effectively tells police they can ignore hunt lawbreakers 21 02 05
Huntley, Ian
see Soham murders
Hurricane Katrina
devastation of New Orleans - comparison with Baghdad 12 09 05
Hussein, Ali
Iraqi boy who lost relatives and suffered facial disfigurement 15 03 04
Hussein, Saddam
Bush treats Saddam like a medieval witch 12 02
Bush wants him executed 5 01 04
Straw calls him 'an inveterate liar' over WMD 5 01 04
Pentagon lawyers provide him with the perfect defence 21 06 04
told he faces charges in 7 broad areas - similar US crimes 5 07 04
comparison with Robert Mugabe 29 11 04
trial begins with charge relating to Dujail killings 24 10 05
Hutton, Lord
exonerates government, slates BBC for Gilligan report 2 02 04
Hypocrisy
Blair demands Livingstone apologise for spat with reporter 21 02 05
Bush says countries shouldn't interfere in affairs of other nations 21 02 05
Howard says Blair should bring back matrons 21 02 05
Bush lectures on democracy and law - his record at home and abroad 28 02 05
Bush says US in tradition of Magna Carta (Guantanamo?) 28 02 05
Blair - revulsion at killing of innocent Iraqis 7 03 05
Rice tells Lebanon and Syria to abide by wishes of the people 7 03 05
Immigration
see Asylum and immigration
Information Technology
spam - my tally over the past year 7 06 04
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Bush refuses to recognise it 06 02
Bush bullies countries into not complying with ICC 12 03
Iran
Bush hostility to, while supplying cruise missiles to Israel 11 03
Iran arrests 8 UK sailors - Straw's demands 28 06 04
Iran's nuclear ambitions 15 08 05
concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions 16 01 06
IRAQ
2002
400,000 march against the forthcoming war 10 02
Bush treats Saddam like a medieval witch 12 02
2003
Andrew Motion's poem about forthcoming war 02 03
Blair's dodgy Iraq 'dossiers' 03 03
blood for oil - cost of invasion for children 04 03
lies told to justify war 04 03
lies told during opening week of war 04 03
US effectively shuts down Al-Jazeera website 04 03
12 year old Hamza al-Gahnem - born during first Gulf War 04 03
Blair talks of 'victory' and 'serious short-term problems' 05 03
Scott Ritter describes Iraq WMD claims as 'pure fiction' 06 03
Hoon feigns ignorance of '45 minutes' claim 06 03
Telegraph alleges false Galloway/Saddam link 06 03
Powell claims Saddam had 18 mobile laboratories 06 03
false story of Jessica Lynch's 'capture' and 'rescue' 06 03
Jack Straw denies depleted uranium poses a health risk 06 03
US and UK throw Hans Blix out of Iraq 06 03
pleas for US to protect Baghdad museum 06 03
what Iraqis endured between the two Gulf wars 07 03
British soldiers deaths described as 'unprovoked murder' 07 03
Bush claimed war part of 'war on terror' - opposite effect 09 03
Ali Ismaeel Abbas comes to UK for artificial limbs 09 03
similarities in Blair's handling of GM and Iraq 10 03
multinationals principal beneficiaries of war 10 03
Powell admits Saddam/Niger uranium story was false 10 03
Blair refuses to admit Saddam/Niger uranium story false 10 03
hostility to Bush's state visit to Britain 10 03
Blair as Bush's poodle on Iraq and GM 10 03
Blair says 'we have nothing to apologise for' over Iraq 11 03
2004
Bush and Blair retreat on WMD claims 26 01 04
Hutton exonerates gov, slates BBC for Gilligan report 2 02 04
US admits Saddam regime had no links with al-Qaida 1 03 04
Kilfoyle demands inquiry into case for war 1 03 04
GCHQ's K Gun says US asked UK to spy on allies 1 03 04
ex Canadian Amb Peggy Mason says invasion illegal 1 03 04
Short claims UK spied on Kofi Annan 1 03 04
ex FO Elizabeth Wilmshurst resigns over legal advice 1 03 04
Attorney General changed advice 1 03 04
US/UK lies about the 'handover' of power 19 04 04
Blair's reasons for going to war 22 03 04
state of Iraq one year on 22 03 04
Rumsfeld slates Arab TV for Fallujah civilians claims 19 04 04
first anniversary of Bush victory speech 3 05 04
'coalition' falling apart 3 05 04
Fallujah handed over to an ex-Saddam general 3 05 04
prisoner torture scandal explodes 3 05 04; 10 05 04
US kills forty people - including women and children - at wedding celebration in Mukaradeeb village 24 05 04
Piers Morgan sacked, Mail asks why not politicians 24 05 04
Bush claims Iraq invasion similar to Normandy landings 7 06 04
Bush calls interim government's sovereignty a triumph 14 06 04
Pentagon lawyers give Saddam perfect defence 21 06 04
Rumsfeld's 1984 meeting with Saddam (incl picture) 5 07 04
Saddam faces charges - similar US crimes 5 07 04
Paul Bremer hands 'sovereignty' back to Iraqis 5 07 04
US maintains grip on Iraq despite sovereignty handover 5 07 04
Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi a former CIA spy 5 07 04
interim gov acquiesces in US attack on Fallujah 12 07 04
Blair still believes in Iraq's WMD 12 07 04
Butler report shows Gilligan was right all along 19 07 04
Blair says 'No one lied' on Iraq 19 07 04
gov announces initiatives to divert attention from Iraq 26 07 04
Saddam protected Christians, now churches bombed 9 08 04
women free under Saddam, now forced to wear burka 9 08 04
Ayad Allawi shoots 7 prisoners 9 08 04
Allawi 'blood on his hands'; 'a thug' says ex CIA officers 9 08 04
Allawi closes al-Jazeera studios 9 08 04
culture of violence now endemic 9 08 04
newspapers and al-Jazeera banned 16 08 04
Hoon - UK troops move a military issue not US politics 25 10 04
captured Margaret Hassan on Iraq before war 25 10 04
Fallujah prepares for new US assault 8 11 04
Fallujah faces religion-inspired violence from both sides 8 11 04
month by month summary of events in Iraq during 2004 20 12 04
cost of war - money could have made world safer 20 12 04
2005
US tsunami aid would run Iraq war for 36 hours 10 01 05
Iraqis vote in first elections 7 02 05
Ayad Allawi's huge advantages during election campaign 7 02 05
US manipulation of elections 7 02 05
Bush claims democracy spreading across middle east 28 03 05
justifying war - deaths of innocent Iraqis (Gary Younge) 28 03 05
will Bush and Blair explain war to damaged children? 28 03 05
Rice deletes Iraq statistics from terrorism report 25 04 05
one week in Iraq - Blair keeps it out of election 25 04 05
Cheney says Iraq insurgency 'in its last throes' 4 07 05
Bush getting desperate - constant references to 9/11 4 07 05
Saddam trial - first charge relates to Dujail killings 24 10 05
US admits using white phosphorus in siege of Fallujah 21 11 05
Interior Ministry police accused of torturing prisoners 21 11 05
Islam
Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn describes Islam as a 'backward culture' 06 02
Nigeria's Muslims disapprove of Miss World but stoning women is OK 12 02
Iraqi Christians protected under Saddam, now Islamists bomb churches 9 08 04
Israel
Bush hostility to Iran while supplying cruise missiles to Israel 11 03
Jarvis
no responsibility for Potters Bar rail crash but pays bosses bonuses 20 09 04
Jefferson, Thomas
quote on government and newspapers 9 02 04
Jones, Steve geneticist
lectures that creationism is wrong 24 04 06
Jowell, Tessa
Communications Bill - takeover of ITV, Channel 5 by foreign companies 10 02
dubious policies on the media, gambling, junk food ads, alcohol 4 10 04; 13 03 06
Justice (see also Crime; Death penalty; Guantanamo Bay)
soft sentences - fourteen years for murder in 1829 01 03
Blunkett's new US extradition treaty removes safeguards for UK citizens 08 03
Lotfi Raissi - five months in Belmarsh then released without charge 08 03
UK locks up terror suspects for two years without charge or trial 12 03
SIAC judges admit evidence would not stand up in a proper court of law 12 03
SIAC judges prepared to admit evidence obtained under torture 12 03
David Blunkett responds to my concerns about detention and torture 5 01 04
Abu Ghraib prisoner torture scandal explodes 3 05 04; 10 05 04
Appeal Court judges rule evidence obtained under torture admissable 16 08 04
UK contravenes ECHR and 1984 UN Convention against Torture 16 08 04
8 British Muslims indicted with terror offences - hard to believe? 23 08 04
Hoffmann's criticism of arbitrary arrest and detention 3 01 05
Law Lords damning report on 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act 14 03 05
Clarke's Prevention of Terrorism Bill 14 03 05
US criticises Iraq for illegal detentions and prisoner abuse 21 03 05
Afghan taxi driver Dilawar - hung by wrists and beaten till dead 20 06 05 19 12 05
Misuse of legislation to silence dissent 10 10 05
Lancaster University students arrested for handing out leaflets 10 10 05
Kay, Dr David
Chief weapons searcher resigns, saying Iraq has no WMD 26 01 04
Kelly, Dr David
Murdoch's editors toe line and attack the BBC over Gilligan/Kelly story 09 03
Hutton report exonerates gov, saltes castigates BBC for Gilligan report 2 02 04
Kelly, Ruth
says schools must 'discuss with parents their children's education' 7 03 05
faces row over sex offenders in schools 23 01 06
support for Blair's appalling white paper 23 01 06
Kennedy, Charles former leader of Liberal Democrat Party
resigns after admitting alcohol problem 9 01 06
Kilfoyle, Peter
demands public and independent inquiry into case for Iraq war 1 03 04
Kilroy-Silk Robert
one of the leaders of UKIP 21 06 04
sets up Veritas - senior member revealed to have links with BNP 7 02 05
2005 election - Veritas humiliated 9 05 05
Krebs, Sir John
FSA website accused of being pro-GM rather than impartial 10 03
Krebs to give 2005 Royal Institution lectures 29 08 05
Kyoto agreement
The toxic Texan - Bush pulls US out of Kyoto agreement 03 01
Labour Party
2005 Labour conference - Wolfgang ejection 10 10 05
2005 Labour conference - Channel 4 excluded 10 10 05
sleaze - allegations surrounding Tessa Jowell's husband 13 03 06
Lamy, Pascal
Trade Commissioner presents EU's regulatory system for GMOs 10 03
Law Lords
ruling against torture 19 12 05
Legislation
1997 Protection from Harassment Act - misuse of 10 10 05
2000 Terrorism Act of - misuse of 10 10 05
1994 Criminal Justice Act, scope broadened by Labour in 2003 10 10 05
1824 Vagrancy Act 10 10 05
1361 Justices of the Peace Act 10 10 05
Lester, Lord
proposes allowing parents to smack their children 'lightly' 12 07 04
Letwin, Oliver
says he'd give right arm to send his kids to fee-paying school 11 03
Lewis CS
Philip Pullman accuses him of racism 07 02
Liberal Democrat Party
2005 campaign - local tax, EU, war, choice, ID cards, detention 25 04 05
2005 election - more seats but only because of Iraq war protests 9 05 05
Kennedy resigns after admitting alcohol problem 9 01 06
Libya
agrees to give up WMD 29 03 04
Literacy Hour
see Education
Litigation
cases against McDonald's and Apple 20 02 06
Lords reform
Blair's lack of enthusiasm for 3 04 06
Lynch, Private Jessica
false story of her 'capture' and 'rescue' 06 03
Magna Carta
rights given on 15 06 1215 and taken away on 11 03 2005 14 03 05
Mallalieu, Ann
support for hunting 02 02
Mason, Peggy
former Canadian ambassador says Iraq invasion was illegal 1 03 04
McDonald's
New York's children sue 12 02
McLibel case, hot coffee case, New York's children sue 20 02 06
Meacher, Michael
differences with Blair over GM food 09 02
sacked for being less than enthusiastic about GM 10 03
Menezes, Jean Charles de
Met Police errors leading to his killing after 7/21 07 bombings 22 08 05
Mercy killing
see Euthanasia
Middle east
Bill Clinton's efforts for peace 12 00
children in religious conflicts in Northern Ireland and middle east 09 01
Rafah - Israel destroys houses, children, zoo animals, 'self-defence' 24 05 04
100,000 Israelis at Tel Aviv peace rally back Gaza pullout 24 05 04
Blair and Bush democracy claim - record in the middle east 22 11 04
Bush claims democracy is spreading from Iraq across middle east 28 03 05
Miliband, David
on becoming a minister, stops supporting comprehensive schools 06 03
Mobile phones
who needs them? 05 01
Monarchy
public pays so royals can keep secrets from the public 28 06 04
Harry dresses up as a Nazi 24 01 05
Charles and Camilla's wedding compared with Deirdre and Ken's 11 04 05
Morgan, Piers
Mirror editor sacked over fake pictures of soldiers abusing Iraqis 17 05 04
Morley, Elliott
reveals US pressure on Europe to accept GM food 09 02; 10 03
Morris, Estelle
argues with Nigel de Gruchy about role of classroom assistants 12 01
quit as Education Secretary because policy made by Blair and Adonis 11 02
Motion, Andrew (Poet Laureate)
poem about forthcoming Iraq war 02 03
Mugabe, Robert
comparison with Saddam Hussein 29 11 04
Murdoch, Rupert
distorted view of the world in his newspapers 09 00
Blair's Communications Bill offers chance to buy ITV and Channel 5 10 02
editors toe line and attack the BBC over Gilligan/Kelly story 09 03
The Times goes tabloid - readers lied to 1 11 04
uses The Times to further his commercial interests 1 11 04
pro-Bush Fox News claims Iraq election success is vindication of war 7 02 05
Music
Virgin records refuses to ban homophobic rap music 28 06 04
National Health Service (NHS)
use of general anaesthesia for trivial operations and in dentistry 09 01
Labour meddling with health service 01 02
dodgy dealings of drug companies who are sucking the NHS dry 05 02
cost of obesity to NHS 8 03 04
FSA warns of 'obesity time bomb' 8 03 04
UK happy for foreigners to work in NHS but not to be treated in it 5 07 04
MRSA and the measures taken to fight it 17 01 05
Ancram blames 'filthy hospitals' on Blair - Tories privatised cleaning 17 01 05
Negroponte, John
appointed by Bush as Chief of Intelligence - murky history 4 07 05
Nehru, Pandit
calls for halt to all nuclear testing 1954 15 08 05
New Orleans
devastation by Hurricane Katrina - comparison with Baghdad 12 09 05
Newspapers
priorities of the broadsheets 08 00
distorted view of the world in Murdoch newspapers 09 00
News of the World campaign for the naming of paedophiles 09 00
tabloids' homophobic campaign against Commander Brian Paddick 04 02
Blair's attempts to appease the right-wing press 07 02
Daily Mail campaign against asylum seekers leads to abuse and threats 11 02
Daily Mail calls treament of Begg and Abassi 'a travesty of justice' 08 03
Murdoch's editors toe line and attack the BBC over Gilligan/Kelly story 09 03
Richard Desmond's Daily Express switches allegiance to the Tories 26 04 04
Daily Express owner Richard Desmond's Nazi jibes 26 04 04
tabloid ethics stink 17 05 04
Daily Mail's pregnant schoolgirl story 17 05 04
tabloids continue to vilify Maxine Carr 17 05 04
Mirror editor Piers Morgan sacked over fake soldier abuse pictures 17 05 04
Morgan sacking - Mail asks why not politicians 24 05 04
The Times goes tabloid - readers lied to 1 11 04
Murdoch uses The Times to further his commercial interests 1 11 04
Sunday Telegraph campaign for the 'Right to Fight Back' (re intruders) 13 12 04
tabloids furious as High Court grants Maxine Carr life-long anonymity 21 03 05
summary of Maxine Carr story so far 6 06 05
tabloids go on making up stories about Maxine Carr 6 06 05
Nigeria
Muslims disapprove of Miss World but stoning women is fine 12 02
Northern Ireland
children in religious conflicts in Northern Ireland and middle east 09 01
North Korea
Bill Rammell raises human rights issues including torture 13 09 04
North Korea's nuclear amibitions 15 08 05
Nuclear power
history of disasters - Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl 17 10 05
cost of decommissioning old stations now put at £56,000m 17 10 05
Blair wants new generation of power stations 17 10 05
concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions 16 01 06
Nuclear weapons
hostility to Iran while supplying cruise missiles to Israel 11 03
history of 8 08 05; 15 08 05
Hiroshima and Nagasaki - effects, motives of US 8 08 05
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) history of 15 08 05
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) history of 15 08 05
Bush's new generation of nuclear weapons 15 08 05
UK prepares Aldermaston for new generation of nuclear weapons 15 08 05
North Korea's nuclear amibitions 15 08 05
Iran's nuclear ambitions 15 08 05
John Bolton wrecks NPT Review Conference 05 2005 15 08 05
concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions 16 01 06
Nutty beliefs
Raelians - cult that wants to clone a human 03 02
Daily Mail campaigns against Cherie Booth's beliefs but is just as bad 01 03
Bible Code author Michael Drosnin claims Bible written by visiting aliens 01 03
Obesity (see also School meals)
New York's children sue McDonald's 12 02
Bush supports sugar barons against WHO 26 01 04
Shipley's private member's bill to ban children's TV junk food ads 8 03 04
cost of obesity to NHS 8 03 04
FSA warns of 'obesity time bomb' 8 03 04
Wanless report urges ban on junk food ads on children's TV 8 03 04
Tessa Jowell refuses to ban junk food ads on children's TV 8 03 04
Health Select Committee report on obesity makes grim reading 31 05 04
Caborn and Jowell back Cadbury schools sport promotion 31 05 04
teen obesity doubles in 10 years 15 05 06
government still refusing to ban junk food ads on children's TV 15 05 06
OFSTED
chief David Bell criticises education in the 60s and 70s 11 10 04
Michael Howard says he'll put Chris Woodhead in charge of education 14 03 05
Oil
fuel price protests 02 01
US/UK deal with Libya 29 03 04
Blair and Brown cave in to fuel protesters and scrap tax increase 7 06 04
fuel protesters in four-by-fours doing 12 miles to the gallon 7 06 04
France to tax gas-guzzlers and subsidise less polluting cars 28 06 04
Oliver, Jamie
see School meals
Oxford University
building an £18m monkey torture facility 12 07 04
SPEAK campaign against Oxford University's monkey torture facility 12 07 04
600 march through Oxford to protest at new primate lab 2 08 04
Sainsbury vows to complete building of Oxford primates lab 2 08 04
clamps down on lab protesters' free speech 27 03 06
Paddick, Commander Brian
homophobic media campaign against him 04 02
Pacheco, Ana Maria
Dark Night of the Soul at the Ashmolean 07 01
Paedophilia
News of the World campaign for the naming of paedophiles 09 00
Pensions
my suggestion for a simple state pension scheme 10 04 06
Perle, Richard
says Iraqis will greet their American 'liberators' with glee 04 03
Plowden Report
Plowden Project launched 30 08 04
Politics
my voting history 2 05 05
my support for Ted Heath in 1970 election 2 05 05
my disillusionment with Blair (very long list!) 2 05 05
my view of Blair's record on justice 2 05 05
my views on why Blair went to war on Iraq 2 05 05
2005 election - performance of each of the parties 9 05 05
Blair concerned about his place in history 18 07 05
Hoon suggests compulsory voting in general elections 1 08 05
compulsory voting - position in other countries 1 08 05
alienation from politics - reasons for 1 08 05
local taxation - Council Tax, local income tax 19 09 05
politicians' inability to say 'sorry' 3 10 05
2005 Labour conference - Wolfgang ejection 10 10 05
2005 Labour conference - Channel 4 excluded 10 10 05
Lords reform - an elected second chamber? 3 04 06
Poverty
Gordon Brown in Africa - calls for aid, debt cancellation and fair trade 24 01 05
G8 Gleneagles summit - Blair puts poverty in Africa on agenda 18 07 05
Powell, Colin
claims Saddam had Saddam had eighteen mobile laboratories 06 03
admits Saddam/Niger uranium story was false 10 03
Pretty, Diane
should we legalise euthanasia? 01 02
Prisons
vulnerable children (Rickwood, Scholes etc) commit suicide in prison 18 10 04
government's stricter rules for children in gaol 18 10 04
Privatisation
Blair government's obsession with 08 01 5 12 05
what is happening to education, health, police, railways? 01 02
Howard blames Blair over gas prices and supply 5 12 05
Public services
Blair government's obsession with privatisation 08 01
what is happening to education, health, police, railways? 01 02
firemen's strike - hypocritical attitude of fat cats 01 03
Pullman Philip
accuses CS Lewis of racism 07 02
Pusztai, Dr Arpad
sacked for raising concerns about GM health dangers 10 03
Pycroft, Laurie
16 year old founder of Pro-Test vivisection group 6 03 06
Raelians
cult that wants to clone a human 03 02
Raissi, Lotfi
five months in Belmarsh then released without charge 08 03
Reagan, Ronald
appalling record 14 06 04
Thatcher's eulogy to him at his death 14 06 04
Religion (see also Religion and politics; Religious cults)
awfulness of Common Worship 27 06 05
Religion and politics
Blair at prayer - danger of mixing politics and religion 03 01
MEPs oust Rocco Buttiglione as Justice Commissioner 8 11 04
Fallujah faces religion-inspired violence from both sides 8 11 04
public opposition to faith schools - poll 1 08 05
Religious cults
Raelians want to clone a human 03 02
Rice, Condoleezza
tells Lebanon and Syria to abide by the wishes of the people 7 03 05
faces international criticism over CIA extraordinary renditions 19 12 05
Ritter, Scott
describes Iraq WMD claims as 'pure fiction' 06 03
Rove, Karl
appointed by Bush as Deputy Chief of Staff - dubious background 4 07 05
Royal family
see Monarchy
Rumsfeld, Donald
says Iraqis want to be liberated 04 03
slates Arab TV for Fallujah civilian deaths claims 19 04 04
his 1984 meeting with Saddam (includes picture) 5 07 04
part in Abu Ghraib abuses 14 02 05 19 12 05
Sacks, Jonathan
challenges prejudice - but his views on Section 28 repeal 31 01 05
Sainsbury, Lord
support for Cambridge primates lab 03 02
gives £2.5m to Labour Party - buying pro-GM decision? 05 03
vows to complete building of Oxford primates lab 2 08 04
School meals
how the present situation arose 4 04 05
Tessa Jowell's refusal to ban junk food ads 4 04 05
Kelly's proposals - parents, School Food Trust, reduce salt, fat etc 4 04 05
teachers' leaders criticise Kelly's proposals as bureaucratic 4 04 05
Jamie Oliver's campaign for better lunches 4 04 05
little improvement a year after Jamie Oliver's campaign 15 05 06
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
supports Bush at 2004 Republican Convention 6 09 04
rewrites history 4 10 04
adopts environmental policies 4 07 05
Shipley, Debra
sponsors private member's bill to ban children's TV junk food ads 8 03 04
Short, Clare
claims that UK spied on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan 1 03 04
Soham murders
Blair panders to tabloids - changes rules to keep Carr in gaol 16 02 04
Carr's appalling treatment by the tabloids 16 02 04
tabloids continue to vilify Maxine Carr after her release 17 05 04
tabloids furious as High Court grants Carr life-long anonymity 21 03 05
summary of story so far 6 06 05
tabloids go on making up stories about Carr 6 06 05
Souter, Brian
Stagecoach boss funds campaign against repeal of Section 28 12 03
Spain
matador gored by bull 28 06 04
British celebrations in Gibraltar upset Spanish 9 08 04
Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC)
judges admit evidence would not stand up in a proper court of law 12 03
judges prepared to admit evidence obtained under torture 12 03
Stafford Smith, Clive
campaigns unsuccessfully for death row inmate John 'Jackie' Elliott 03 03
tells Attorney General US has already decided what to do with detainees 08 03
Stalin, Joseph
if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth 11 03
Stannard, David
an appreciation 12 09 05
Steyn, Lord
criticises Guantanamo 23 02 04
accuses US/UK of whipping up fear of terrorism for their own ends 20 06 05
Straw, Jack
denies depleted uranium poses a health risk 06 03
calls Saddam Hussein 'an inveterate liar' over WMD 5 01 04
says Saddam could have been treated like Gaddafy 29 03 04
demands that Iran treats 8 arrested 8 UK sailors properly 28 06 04
Sutch, Screaming Lord
leader of Monster Raving Loony Party (died 1999) 26 07 04
Symons, Lady
weak response to concerns about British detainees at Guantanamo 08 03
Teacher unions
NUT's Head of Education John Bangs urges abandonment of SATs 06 03
SHA's Dunford urges greater reliance on teachers' professionalism 06 03
ATL leader Mary Bousted criticises Labour's academies 17 04 06
NUT demands end to state funding of faith schools 24 04 06
NAHT campaigns against tests and league tables - 18 years too late 8 05 06
Television
what Mrs Thatcher did to ITV 01 01
digital television - who needs it? 05 01
Communications Bill offers Murdoch chance to buy ITV, Channel 5 10 02
Coronation Street's first gay character 5 04 04
Charles and Camilla's wedding compared with Deirdre and Ken's 11 04 05
2005 Labour conference - Channel 4 excluded 10 10 05
Terrorism
World Trade Centre attacks on 11 09 2001 10 01
'War on Terrorism' - my letter to Blair and reply from FCO 11 01
Blair on the threat of terrorism, human rights, the rule of law etc 15 03 04
government spends £8m on booklet on preparing for terrorist attack 2 08 04
8 British Muslims indicted with terror offences - hard to believe? 23 08 04
Beslan school massacre 6 09 04
Law Lords damning report on the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act 14 03 05
Clarke's Prevention of Terrorism Bill 14 03 05
London suicide bombings 7 07 2005 11 07 05
motives of London bombers 18 07 05
Met Police errors in Menezes killing after 7/21 July bombings 22 08 05
2005 terror law - 'glorifying', 3 months detention, closing mosques 10 10 05
Tesco
history, success 28 11 05
Thatcher, Margaret
what she did to ITV 01 01
her eulogy to Ronald Reagan at his death 14 06 04
Poll Tax riots 19 09 05
vandalism of coal industry - sacked miners, concreted mines 17 10 05
her legacy 31 10 05
Thaw, John
an appreciation 03 02
Torture
Abu Ghraib prisoner torture scandal explodes 3 05 04; 10 05 04
summary of events in 2005 19 12 05
torture and death of Afghan tax driver Dilawar 19 12 05
Trades unions (see also Teacher unions)
firemen's strike - hypocritical attitude of fat cats 01 03
Transport
fuel price protests 02 01
Blair and Brown cave in to fuel protesters and scrap tax increase 7 06 04
fuel protesters in four-by-fours doing 12 miles to the gallon 7 06 04
France to tax gas-guzzlers and subsidise less polluting cars 28 06 04
numbers killed and injured on UK's roads 2 08 04
Potters Bar rail crash - Jarvis bosses get bonuses 20 09 04
Truman, Harry
motives for A bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 8 08 05
Turing, Alan
50th anniversary of his death 14 06 04
Tuttle, Robert US Ambassador to London
denies US used white phosphorus in siege of Fallujah 21 11 05
United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)
Joan Collins lends her support 31 05 04
xenophobia 7 06 04
6 per cent of Britons vote UKIP in European election 21 06 04
Robert Kilroy-Silk one of its leaders 21 06 04
members mostly white middle-aged middle-class males 21 06 04
Godfrey Bloom makes UKIP new Monster Raving Loony Party 26 07 04
2005 election - poor result 9 05 05
United Nations
Convention against Torture 19 12 05
United States (see also Bush, George; Death penalty)
list of countries invaded since 1945 02 03
previous relations with Saddam Hussein 02 03
list of interventions in Latin America on side of murderous thugs 23 08 04
2004's ugly presidential campaign 1 11 04
Vivisection
Dr Evan Harris gets his facts wrong 06 01
Cambridge abandons plans for primates lab 03 02
examples of recent research using animals 06 02
Cambridge researchers get away with torture 09 02
GM animals used in organ transplant experiments 9 02 04
Cambridgeshire NHS Trust starves pregnant mice 9 02 04
Cambridge confirms it is abandoning primate lab 9 02 04
demand for tougher measures against animal rights 'extremists' 3 05 04
growing concern about efficacy of animal experimentation 3 05 04
revelations of cruelty at Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) 3 05 04
Oxford University building an £18m monkey torture facility 12 07 04
SPEAK campaign against Oxford University's monkey torture facility 12 07 04
600 march through Oxford to protest at new primate lab 2 08 04
misinformation of drug companies 2 08 04
Sainsbury vows to complete building of Oxford primates lab 2 08 04
David Blunkett calls protesters 'terrorists' 2 08 04
Darley Oaks guinea pigs farm to close 5 09 05
arguments for and against animal experiments 5 09 05
growing concerns about efficacy of animal experiments 5 09 05
campaigners labelled 'terrorists' - comparison of deaths caused 10 10 05
pro-vivisectionists march in support of new Oxford lab 6 03 06
War
Goering's advice on how to persuade people to go to war 08 03
our refusal to honour 306 soldiers executed during the 'Great War' 15 11 04
UK covert support for Suharto coup, Indonesia 1965 10 10 05
US 'Rolling Thunder' campaign, North Vietnam 1965 10 10 05
Water
flouridation - pros and cons 10 02
Coca-Cola's Dasani bottled water revealed as tap water 29 03 04
Watson, Marie
pensioner killed for her fish supper 05 02
Wilmshurst, Elizabeth
ex FO legal team - resigned over legal advice on Iraq war 1 03 04
Winning, Cardinal Thomas
campaigns against repeal of Section 28 12 03
Wolfowitz, Paul
nominated by Bush as head of World Bank 21 03 05; 4 07 05
World Health Organisation (WHO)
sugar barons frustrate campaign on diet and obesity 26 01 04
Wragg, Ted
Exeter Professor of Education dies 14 11 05
Yeo, Tim
opposes commercial planting of GM crops in UK 10 03
York
holiday - Harlow Carr, Goathland, Leeds, Scarborough 27 06 05
Young, Baroness
arch-homophobe dies 10 02
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