Boy, but the Government are pretty crappy at this whole War on Terror thing, aren't they? First they're told they can't hold people without trial; now they're told it's not OK to keep people virtual prisoners in their own homes.

The Government are bound to blame the Human Rights Act. I think they'd be better blaming the intelligence that says "these are really bad men, but we can't prove anything. At all. Actually, maybe they haven't even done anything yet, so could we just watch them until they do?"

You know, if they really are that dangerous, surely they must have done something worth arresting them for? Like detaining people without trial or keeping them prisoner in their own homes, for example. Or am I just a delusional liberal?

I love this quote, I must admit:

"Some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal" - Harper Lee on reading and modern technology.

Incidentally, I feel almost vulgar reading Lady Chatterley's Lover on the underground - it feels like rubbing peoples' noses in my literary pretensions.

Actually, that's not me. I don't read the Times. Or wear a bowler hat... or wear a mac, for that matter. OK, OK, so aside from the book, there's nothing of me in that picture. But I liked the expression on the face of the guy with the pipe.

And I don't like people reading over my shoulder like that woman on the left. Buy your own.

Dave xx

[ previous - next ]