Abdelbaset al-Megrahi death watch….the miracle continues

Happy anniversary, Mr al-Megrahi….

This newspaper can also disclose that American senators investigating Megrahi’s release will this week launch an unprecedented request for British “whistle-blowers” to disclose details about the decision to free the Lockerbie bomber. The appeal is a remarkable sign of US-British rifts as it indicates that US investigators do not believe they are obtaining the full story from politicians in London and Edinburgh.

Q: What do you call a state that connives with a rogue state for commercial gain?

A: A rogue state.

Turkeys voting for Christmas

Daniel Hannan is perfectly entitled to continue as a Member of the European “Parliament”, despite the fact that is a body whose legitimacy and sovereignty he questions. He is, after all, only following the time-honoured custom of champions of liberty like Charles Stewart Parnell, but one can’t help but wonder which audience he thinks he’s addressing here.

Doctrinally not quite up to his usual high standards….

Yellow card, Daniel.

Any enlargement of the EU is wrong because the EU is, in and of itself, wrong.

If Mr Cameron wishes to conduct bi-lateral diplomacy with a country that for decades protected our south-eastern flank against the Soviet Union (in the best Tory tradition, as you say) that is one thing, but to wrap his discourse in honeyed phrases about Turkey’s eventual entry into the EU is quite another. It is merely a continuation of the treason, committed by others and compounded by him, when he failed to deliver a referendum on Lisbon.

It won’t be the Liberal Democrats who bring down the Coalition, it will be the libertarian right that reclaims the party of Pitt and Peel.

Turkey lurkey

Another stiletto between the shoulder blades of democracy from iDave as he talks up  Turkey’s membership of the EU.

He compared hostility to the membership bid in some parts of the EU with the way the UK’s entry was once regarded.

Trust me, Dave, the UK’s entry into the EU is still regarded with hostility, not least in Britain.

Meanwhile….

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Says it all really.

Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela

92 today. Good innings and all that.

But wait! Yes….I’m getting….yes….OK….this just in from the Blessed Abattoir of the Sacred Cow….

Che Guevara is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom.

Ah well, I guess even divinities made flesh are entitled to the occasional bad day at the office.

24 types of authoritarian

I don’t know whether to laugh or open a vein….

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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi death watch….the continuing story

320 days since the “terminally ill” Lockerbie bomber was released so that he could die at home in Libya.

Must be something they put in their tea.

He lives! God is great!

The stench of a cynical quid pro quo between the Government and Kadhafi grows more fetid by the day.