Bristling Badger

Two years ago the freshly elected David Cameron spoke of how Britain owes so much to the USA for its military support during the Battle of ...

I know I'm a little late out of the starting blocks to talk about the killing of Osama bin Laden, but still. If the American governme...

I've written another guest post for kickass countercultural anniversary blog On This Deity . Today is the 42nd anniversary of John and...

NHS Direct is the latest victim of the Tory cuts. The phone line was, itself, set up as a money-saver. People can ring up with minor ailme...

Two members of the Free Gaza flotilla speaking in London, Saturday 5th June 2010. Respect for human rights and international law is not ...

A year ago, as Israeli forces rained military death upon Gaza, we blogged, we wrote emails, some of us even took to the streets. And all of ...

The sense of betrayal about Barack Obama's presidency mystifies me. The talk is as if he's somehow not fulfilled the promise, when i...

Simon Mann - a person who'd fit any decent working definition of 'international terrorist' - has been pardoned and released fro...

Having recently set out what I think poetry shouldn't do, here's an instance of what it can be well used for. Poetry should come fr...

In addition to Tales To Tell , the blog from Gaza mentioned in my previous post , there's another blog done by an International Solidari...

Some thoughts on the Israeli action against Gaza. Firstly, the defence used by Hamas and their supporters that the rockets fired into Israel...

How depressing it must be for Americans to have that two months between a presidential election and them actually taking office. Two months ...

I've written to many prisoners in my time, but today is the first time I've had the urge to send one page after page saying 'HAH...

The war in Iraq is, as we all know, about liberating the country and making it safe for its people. We're doing such a good job of it th...

They're all at it. Last week the relentlessly pro-war Ruth Kelly said she could never 'trigger the death of someone'. Within a ...

In February 2003 there were two parliamentary votes to hold back on going to war in Iraq. Labour's Ruth Kelly voted against them, and fo...

I believe I have found the best line ever to appear in a news story . UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorica...

They were so setting us up for an invasion of Iran because, like Iraq, it has a lot of oil and a government unfriendly to the West. As early...

Vicious Tory scumpig Ann Winterton was up on her hind legs in parliament this week, pushing for a bill to ensure that women who go for abor...

Interesting to look at the BBC site telling us about how we're in Iraq to bring democracy. Buried in a story about Iraqi prisoners esca...