Peter Risdon

News of a forthcoming webchat:
David Miliband will be taking your questions on international affairs in a live webchat on 30 November from 13:45 GMT.
David was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in June 2007, as part of Gordon Brown’s first Cabinet.
Anyone feeling so inclined could ask him why he is letting Iraqis [...]

There’s been a certain amount of hilarity around the web recently, following the reports that an environmentalist called Toni Vernelli had herself sterilised at the age of 27 because:
“Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet.”
On the whole, people have complimented her on removing herself, and [...]

I’ve been to busy to blog recently, so this is a bit after the event but, although I thought John Howard was an outstanding political leader, I’m not upset there was a Labor victory in Australia. The Liberals had been in power for a long time. An occasional change of government is necessary in democracies.
As [...]

Max Hastings makes some interesting points about the recent controversy when Nick Griffin and David Irving were invited to speak in Oxford:
Muslim extremists say worse and more dangerous things about Jews than Irving ever has…
Not just about Jews, by the way. Radical Islam is a superset of Nazism and Fascism.
There’s another angle on this, though. [...]

The Saudi government has released 1500 Al Qaeda members from custody, on the grounds that they have been reformed, and that they promise not to wage Jihad.
Ah… not quite. They have been released in return for the promise not to wage Jihad on the Arabian peninsula.
That’ll be a comfort for anyone they kill away from [...]

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Mike at The Monkey Tennis Centre mentions the first aid lessons being offered to “all the Palestinian armed factions” in Gaza by the International Red Cross.
It seems he has gained exclusive access to some of their new training materials:
Lesson 1: Casualty with severed head:
1. Retrieve head from celebrating mob.
2. Carefully reattach head to neck as [...]

I’m too busy to blog properly, but Happy Thanksgiving. Have a great day, if you’re celebrating.

I’ve linked to them a couple of times already, but in the occasional series here of posting about good blogs, I give you Simply Jews. Keep avoiding the medication, guys (you need to look at their tagline to understand that, so click through).
I’ve posted a few times about the appalling situation democratic, moderate, secular Iranians [...]

And while I’m on the subject of the extraordinary courage of dissidents in Muslim countries, let’s spare a thought for Abdel Karim Soliman, the Egyptian blogger who was jailed for ‘vilifying religion’ and insulting the President – two things that ought to have earned him a medal rather than imprisonment. It’s no surprise, in a [...]