Labour Affairs Magazine

My 2000-2005 Comments on the Month’s Politics

gwydionwilliams
5–8 minutes

I’ve been making comments on politics from the 1970s. I have some of them on-line. Here are what I’ve put on-line from the year 2000. Sadly, I kept fewer than I should have.

2000: March:

2001: June:

October 2001 (the 9/11 attacks):

December 2001:

From 2002 onwards, I kept most of the files. Posted them to our website. Note that I didn’t do a Newsnote every month: I missed a few

2002: January:

  • Political dollars;
  • Afghans;
  • You Will Fly These Hijackers To Cuba;
  • New Labour Of The Third Kind;
  • Peer Pressure.

February 2002:

  • Neophilliacs of the ICA;
  • Anthrax: Born In The USA;
  • Forgiven criminals [Unit 731];
  • Glad To Be Dull? [Japan];
  • As you sow, so shall you poison.

March 2002:

  • Africa as Europe’s backyard;
  • George Bush, anti-globaliser;
  • Global Lynch Law

May 2002:

  • The Silence Of The Thunderers;
  • Hard Right Blues;
  • Hard Left, Harder Left, Hardly Left, Little Left;
  • Our laws, not The Law;
  • Half-Liberalism;
  • Queen-mummified.

July 2002:

  • A global civil war;
  • Habeas Nothing;
  • Press Corruptors;
  • Consignia To The Dustbin;
  • Genetically Modified [Food].

August 2002:

  • Journalists – spies for God;
  • Stamp on e-mail;
  • India-Pakistan.

November 2002:

  • Fight for the right to slaughter?;
  • A deadly friendship;
  • The road to Bali [Bali Bomb];
  • All-American Terrorism? [Washington Shooters];
  • Extremicide [Chechens];
  • No-show Trial [Milosevic];
  • Back to basics, front to Edwina Currie [John Major].

December 2002:

  • Japan: Ninja Economics?;
  • If it prosper, it is not Extremism [Islamism in Turkey];
  • Five Bitches Called Eve [The evolution of dogs];
  • What The Butler Never Said;
  • Sad to be Nasty: the Tory disintegration

2003: January,

  • So Solid Cruse Missiles;
  • Please murder the journalists (this is a joke);
  • Roy Jenkins: Mindless Moderation;
  • Iraq: guilty even if found innocent [Planned invasion of Iraq].

March 2003,

  • Blowing In The Wind [Depleted uranium];
  • No-law zones [The ‘War Against Terror’];
  • Bloody but Green?;
  • War – a cost / benefit analysis;
  • Bury the truth at My Lai [Vietnam War];
  • Licit Death [Tobacco].

May-June 2003,

  • Rumsfeld Rewards Terrorism;
  • Murky Politics [War in Iraq];
  • The UN-forgiven? [New World Order];
  • Euro Visions [Eurovision Song Contest];
  • Baghdad Crunch;
  • Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam,;
  • The Matrix: Marketable Rebelliousness.

July 2003,

  • Half Of The World.;
  • Loathing and Offensiveness In Mesopotamia;
  • Kill Iraqis, not foxes?;
  • Affirmative action [US Racism];
  • Harry Potter and Tolkien;
  • Britannia Opposes The Waves! [British History]

August 2003,

  • Reaping the whirlwind [Iraq ‘Peacekeeping’];
  • A few biased men [Guantanamo Bay detention camp];
  • Laundered Law [Money Laundering];
  • California dreaming [Recall for the Governor];
  • The Importance Of Being Infallible [Death of David Kelly];
  • Some very old news [An ancient exoplanet].

September 2003,

  • Chemical Ali and Bloody Basra;
  • UN-forgivable [Iraq ‘Peacekeeping’];
  • A butcher’s double [Islamists Rising];
  • UN-ethical [New World Order];
  • Fires Of Babylon [Kelly Inquiry];
  • Lovely weather for snakes [Market Forces and the US Grid];
  • Painted Apes [Human Nature].

November 2003,

  • Two Black Hawks and a Chinook;
  • Save A Soldier, Kill A Child [Cluster Bombs];
  • Iraq, the never-ending story;
  • Democracy: Iraq Says No;
  • Ghost Stories [Pro-Saddam Demonstration in Iraq];
  • McIslam and Normal Islam;
  • Fragging By Proxy? [Iraq War];
  • Third Way Ends Sadly [Non-Muslims in Iraq];
  • Thieves robbed! Shock Horror in Western Eyes [Putin and Yukos];
  • Rational Economics [Inequality in the USA];
  • The New Space Race [Chinese Space Program];
  • Harry Plotter & the Quietly Ignorant Troll [Tory Leader Iain Duncan Smith].

December 2003,

  • Asses kick Americans;
  • My Country Wrong & Deserving Defeat [Britain’s Wars];
  • Kill Ratios [Iraq War];
  • Turkey: Slaughtering Secularism.

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 2004,

  • 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 2004,

  • 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 2004,

  • 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 2004,

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

2005: January 2005,

  • Dumping dollars.;
  • From China With ‘Think’ [Lenovo and IBM];
  • Advanced Mice & Backward Humans [DNA studies];
  • Teach Yourself Burglary? [Censorship];
  • Tobacco Holocaust.;
  • Season to be jolly, jolly, jolly, jolly, jolly, jolly, jolly… [Long Christmas Build-Up]
  • A few good sites;
  • Were you noticing…

February 2005,

  • Sudan to split?;
  • Releasing the Hogs Of War [Government and Democracy in Africa];
  • Heroes East and West [Alexander and the First Qin Emperor];
  • Non-Martyrs of the New Right [Zhao Ziyang];
  • Chinese ‘Capitalism’;
  • Fearsome dinosaur-eating mammals (deceased);
  • Work Hard, Torture Hard [Britain in Iraq];
  • God wins Iraqi Election?;
  • Sound-Bitten royals;
  • Some more good websites.

March 2005,

  • The Sistani Tsunami [Iraq Elections];
  • Flight Of The Vulture;
  • Lebanon: “people power” annoys the people;
  • Join the army and be loathed by all the world!;
  • Cokehead Chic;
  • Star Trek: Ending With A Whimper;
  • Global Slum;
  • Fly pigs with me;
  • Make Panic, Not Law;
  • Beautiful Minders.;
  • Better Embedded Than Dead.

May 2005,

  • Howard’s End [Michael Howard];
  • Dead Pope’s Day [Death of John-Paul 2nd];
  • One Funeral and One Remarriage [Prince Charles];
  • God Blesses Germany? [Pope Benedict];
  • Two quarters of the world [China and India];
  • The Other Asia [Japan];
  • Land Of Opportunity? [Social Mobility];
  • A Land Fit For Locusts? [German economy]

July 2005,

  • Floating Yuan, Sinking Dollar.;
  • David Blunkett Is Watching You! [Spy Cameras];
  • It’s Democracy, George, But Not As You Know It [Iraq and Iran];
  • Srebrenica: Selective Memories [Bosnia];
  • The Demoralisation Of Britain;
  • Is Your War Really Necessary?;
  • Free Britons [Ken Livingstone on the London Bombings];
  • Afghans Aren’t Doing It For Themselves;
  • Tubes and Bottlenecks [London Bombings];
  • Tubes and Bottlenecks 2

October 2005,

  • Oil – still too cheap.;
  • Jazzed-up capitalism [New Orleans hurricane];
  • Fewer, worse and bound for the USA [Hurricanes more frequent];
  • Join The Army, Fight The Police [British in Iraq];
  • Open-Legged Politics;
  • NASA’s Great Leap Backward [End of the Space Shuttle];
  • Wandering Stars [Kuiper Belt and Pluto];
  • The Ghost-Ship Enterprise [Star Trek];
  • Why Intelligent Design Is Stupid;
  • For Sale:

December 2005,

  • China – Great-Wall Marts.;
  • Zimbabwe: Majority Reject Democracy.;
  • Rome: Sons Of The Wolf.;
  • Throw-Away People;
  • Society: It Was Good When It Existed;
  • Tories Get Right Up Your Nose;
  • A Caliphate Worse Than Death?.;
  • ICANN – Nations Shall Have Intercourse, But Pretend Otherwise [Internet];
  • By McLuhan, Out Of Thatcher [Henry Jackson Society].