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I cannot agree that the Bloody Sunday event was just a few hothead Paras. It came from the top in Whitehall. Even having shock troops present was a command decision The Gibraltar incident might have been more local . I do agree that the US citizens have a much more fundamentalist approach to...

All that may as be, but just read up on the consequences of the SAS team killing the three IRA people in Gibraltar,.. You could not make up the sequence of violence that unleashed, a movie script would have been rejected as improbable.

..Sorry Flecc, but this time you are incorrect. 1. The event occurred on the land area of a sovereign power .. Iraq 2. It was not authorised by that power. 3. It would be viewed as a terrorism attack by anyone else. 4. That the individual targeted was a serving officer of a country the USA has...

You are being a touch .... The structure of the response to the Bloody Sunday march in Derry, which was 40 years later than the Bonnie and Clyde incident illustrates that. The behaviour of the police/ army squad in Gibraltar another decade on shows that they had not learned. Both of these...

Seriously? But that presumably is what those dudes in Sandhurst, Moscow, China, North Korea, Mexico ,maybe even Ottawa spend their weekends planning as homework assignments,when they have spent the weekdays creating doomsday scenarios for all their other "friends "..

We have international law for a reason. But the question now is who are we appeasing? The USA flaunted international law going after and killing Bin Laden in a neutral state. We ignored the international consequences of that, now the US repeats this with less obvious cause. Next time they...

I can see that point of view, but there is another. Iraq is a sovereign state, the US ignited bombs on its surface . That is an act of war against Iraq,and the US action would normally be called terrorism. The US is not at war with Iran,as far as I know. Such action has not been authorised by...

..Do you not have Rememberence Day every year? Its making the same point again and again. Time will tell,but unfortunately I think that OG is correct , and the UK is on a path to improvishment. Whether as he asserts , it is due to pending EU taxation legislation, is purely an opinion on...

It is probably highly desirable for the higher levels of the British Civil Service to be occupied by technocrats, and not by people whose main ability is a First in English Lit. from Oxbridge . However a State is not a small hi tech start up, where failure is measured in thousands of dollars and...

Reading that extensive piece, I come to a one word summary. Lysenkoism

Kettles and pots , using words like verbatim should be verboten

Look at these slightly more objectively... 1) We don't live in a democracy Your Parliament is supreme,and is voted in by universal suffrage,so in general terms it is democratic. However it is not Representative. In that the ratio of seats is not proportional to the popular vote. 2) The vote in...

Good ! back on topic. Yes. The UK will be leaving the EU sometime. That sometime is . 1. Crashout at end of January 2020..in the event that either HoC fails to pass the same package as the EU understands it agreed, or does not give enough time for the EU to complete its side. 2. Leaving...

You are correct!!!. I am not bothered about that, which should tell you something. I did at an earlier time try to explain that I do all my postings for this forum from a tablet, which has a small .. 10 inch screen but very high resolution. 2560 x 1600 , therefore editing with a thick finger...

The fact you you don't agree with me, does not make me stupid. Nor does the fact that flecc got the wrong end of the stick regarding my posts on illiterates and did not see the forest for the trees, make me wrong. I may not be all that clever, but I know my own mind and stick to a point

Why are you trying to meditate OJs posts?. Is he incapable of misinterpreting for himself?.

I believe that a State has the right to look after its people. It has the right to say to to employers you cannot employ child labour, because we need these children to go to school, so that they can be literate and highly productive OVER the LONG TERM. It has a right to insist that adaquate...

So we are not disagreeing!! What a nice way to finish off the year.

And I can think of bridges falling, nuclear power stations exploding, hundreds of millions killed because of a failure of knowledge.

Perhaps we differ there. The first duty of Government is to protect its people from external threat. Hence an army or alliances The next is to protect the people from internal threats, . This includes even draconian actions like compulsory quarantine , internment . , Suspension of Habeas...