Provides the latest RSS feeds for UK Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page London Mercury.com http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/cat/6224488e41617199/ en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 21:02:56 -0400 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:02:56 -0400 30 For all our liberality, Britain still has a way to go. Last weekend - ironically, just one day after the International Day Against Homophobia - two gay men were attacked in a south London park. Then, yesterday, more than a handful of MPs lined up to resist government plans to allow same-sex couples to marry. The two are, of course, not linked; it would be fatuous - not to say, unfair - to suggest ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649038/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:15:06 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649038/scat/6224488e41617199 or that life should be made miserable for David Cameron , or both, they knew they had cover from local party associations. Far from condemning their disloyalty to the party leadership, as might have been done in times long past, those associations knew that Cameron would support them. It's unlikely that without that activist momentum (partly fuelled by the competition from Ukip, of course) ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649037/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:15:06 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649037/scat/6224488e41617199 o It must have seemed a no-brainer. The people who rule the 21st century offering a platform to the man who would run the country. And so it was little surprise that Ed Miliband made himself available. He wasn't to know that in the intervening period, his hosts Google would be reborn as public enemy No 1; castigated as tax-dodging "evil" by Margaret Hodge, the Labour chair of the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643961/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:17:57 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643961/scat/6224488e41617199 Donald Macintyre writes political sketches for The Independent, having been Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, covering Israel and the Occupied Territories, as well as travelling for the paper to Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Libya and Egypt. As Political Editor and then Chief Political Commentator, he previously covered the John Major and early Tony Blair era. He has written for the Daily Express, ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214642669/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:05:53 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214642669/scat/6224488e41617199 There was much cause for optimism when Barack Obama regained the White House last November. Never mind the warnings of "second-term blues"; with the small-government Tea Party looking like a spent force and the winds of economic recovery behind him, the newly re-elected President was all set to carry forward his moderate agenda, guiding through immigration reform, making progress on ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214640080/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:27 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214640080/scat/6224488e41617199 The letter - published in this newspaper today - comes hot on the heels of the admission from the NHS watchdog, earlier this month, that pressure on A&E departments is "out of control" and "unsustainable". And it does much to illustrate what so damning an assessment means on the ground. The doctors' plea is as stark as it is frightening. They write of "toxic ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214640079/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:27 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214640079/scat/6224488e41617199 By accepting mandates from Brussels - even down to how restaurants serve olive oil - our politicians have supported a damaging loss of democratic ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214640082/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:26 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214640082/scat/6224488e41617199 D Stewart (letter, 20 May) is of course right; the EU today "is not what [he] and millions of others voted for in 1975"; as was inevitable, it has evolved. Whether Britain remains in or out it will continue to exist, evolve and impact on our lives.Inside the EU our elected representatives have opportunities to influence the direction of that evolution; were the UK to leave they'd ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214640081/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:25 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214640081/scat/6224488e41617199 op of this week's album charts is Rod Stewart , as he was in 1979 (just five years ago). He beat Agnetha - the blonde one from Abba - to the No 1 spot. And this comes after Iggy and the Stooges, and David Bowie also released records this year, and at the same time as there's a Star Trek film showing at the pictures: you can see why my brain has stopped trying to stay on top of things. ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214640083/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:24 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214640083/scat/6224488e41617199 The men of the family, father and son, have been treated kindly by the press. But to the outside eye these easy-living aristocrats seem quite ghastly, in ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214638724/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:41:44 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214638724/scat/6224488e41617199 Another reminder of how powerless grown-ups feel to prevent their children from stumbling into the grimy corners of the internet: in a survey for ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214638725/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:41:43 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214638725/scat/6224488e41617199 For more and more people these days, the idea of retail therapy doesn't entail leaving the house. No public transport, no car journey, no search for a parking space, and no need to walk up and down the high street in all kinds of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214638726/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:41:42 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214638726/scat/6224488e41617199 But Omar Abdullah, chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, made some good sense today when he suggested it was time for the central government in Delhi to take a risk when it came to one of the most controversial issues confronting his state.The Essex-born politician, whose mother is British but whose father and grandfather were former chief ministers ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214633244/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:24:51 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214633244/scat/6224488e41617199 Equal Partners campaign had fought for. Today, with the possibility that a "wrecking amendment" could delay legislation for two years, and renewed objections from anti-gay marriage MPs, we're revisiting some of the powerful pieces published in the run up to February's historic vote. So here's why we supported - and continue to support - equal ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214633245/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:24:50 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214633245/scat/6224488e41617199 Charles Arthur: The government should kill its absurd rail plan and lay an optical fibre network - it's cheaper and be the ultimate economic ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214632087/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:33:50 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214632087/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Phyllis Chesler We are reprinting one of our very special features:October 15, 2007 The Chesler Chroniclesby Phyllis CheslerINTERVIEWS WITH EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. CAROL GOULD: PRO-AMERICAN, PRO-ISRAELI, WHO LIVES IN LONDONISTAN FOR COMIC RELIEFCarol Gould is a very funny woman. She is as witty as she is heartbreaking and she is quintessentially theatrical. When I first met ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629378/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:57 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629378/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editors Carol Gould's novel 'Spitfire Girls,' which in 2011 was under option to a major UK television production company, Sally Head Productions ('Prime Suspect')is available to upload from Amazon ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629377/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:57 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629377/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonAs election day in the Unites States has at long last come and gone and Inauguration Day approaches I am moved to respond to one of a mountain of editorials to emerge from the British print media this autumn.Andrew ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629376/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:55 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629376/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Well, once again Piers Morgan is in the news. Notwithstanding my shame and horror as the Connecticut massacre unfolded on 14 December, his anti-American fury reminded me of the 'old' Piers who so hated the USA when he was editor of the Daily Mirror. Please read my full narrative below. Here is a link to the latest ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629379/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:53 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629379/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould [Editor's Note 16 November 2012: The Israeli-Palestinian situation is in the news again. Hundreds of rockets are being launched by Islamic Jihad by their own admission and by Hamas from Gaza into Israel as far north as Tel Aviv. If only the Palestinians would seek peace and not conflict...]10th November 2012LondonJust what did Liberal Democrat peer Lord ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629380/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:52 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629380/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Putting gay marriage and abortion aside, the dilemma Americans have is that a successful businessman is pitted against an incumbent who has not made the 2008 dream of prosperity a reality. Barack Obama has not shown the promise so many expected of him. When Susan Eisenhower and Julie Nixon, the progeny of Republican presidents, formed Republicans for Obama that ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629383/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:50 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629383/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould In light of the Prime Minister proposing that Housing Benefit be taken from young people aged twenty-five and under I have written the following letter to my MP:Dear Karen,As an American with dual US-UK nationality I find it repugnant to see the perpetual banging-on by the media and politicians about the benefit system and the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629385/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:49 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629385/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonOne of the most remarkable interviews I have watched in years was broadcast on CNN in mid- May; I was about to report on its significant points when its subject, Vidal Sassoon, sadly left this mortal world. In the interview Sassoon said capitalism had not worked and that much of the world and most particularly the United States ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629384/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:49 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629384/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Carol Gould on Libya24 March 2012I believe that the issue of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629386/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:47 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629386/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Andrew Adler in the January 13 edition of the Atlanta Jewish Times has called for the assassination of President Obama by the Israeli Mossad as part of a coordinated scenario to remove the Iranian regime and its nuclear development programme. Adler may actually be violating state and federal law and his words have been roundly condemned worldwide but I've ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629390/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:45 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629390/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Gaddafy is dead. There are calls for the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbasst ali al Megrahi to be returned to jail in Scotland (the irony is that he might be safer in Great Britain than at home if civil war takes hold) and for the murderer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, killed outside the Libyan Embassy in London on 17 April 1984, to be tracked down and finally brought to ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629389/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:44 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629389/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London I have been reading with great interest Allison ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629394/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:43 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629394/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould 24th Septembwer 2011LondonAs I languish in homesickness on this day of the fortieth reunion of the graduating class of 1971 I offer to our readers the essay I composed for the Reunion Committee : my memories of the turbulent world events of 1967-1971. It is so hard to make non-Americans and even non-Philadelphians understand the sisterhood that lasts a lifetime ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629393/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:43 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629393/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould (First published February 20, 2011)LondonWhen I was a very little girl my mother used to say to my sister and me that ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629400/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:42 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629400/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London'...What does David Cameron have to offer but divisive and crude rhetoric? How dare he call this remarkable nation broken and sick? Millions of citizens like me are penniless and sick because of criminal bankers and endowment and pension providers giving us a pittance after twenty-five years of loyal investment....'16 August 2011Selma was ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629399/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:41 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629399/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould The article below was published in December 2010. As the USA gets closer to default I reject claims by conservative commentators that the present crisis arises from the Obama adninistration's action or inaction. Though I will acknowledge that Franklin Roosevelt was a consummate politician who knew how to commandeer support from Republicans, which Obama seems ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629398/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:41 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629398/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonIn my previous article I recounted the bizarre experiences I had in Eastbourne on my first UK holiday in five years. I would like now to turn to even more bizarre events during my visit as well as some unpleasant encounters in London. No sooner had I arrived in the coastal town than I discovered that my sunglass frames had come apart. The following day I ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629396/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:40 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629396/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonI live in parallel universes. There is the universe of my sister and of my American friends and huge family spread across the United States who provide me with accounts of opera, ballet, theatre, church organ and concert performances they have attended in various cities. Then I go to Press TV to talk about the revolutions in the Middle East and Gulf and ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629395/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:37 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629395/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould The Westminster Media Forum Policy Seminar: Ethnicity and the Media: January 31, 2007Report and Comment by Carol ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629403/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:36 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629403/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonI am ashamed I ever called myself a 'conservative' commentator. When is the Tory government going to stop obsessing on benefit claimants and start creating the 'New Society?' Franklin Delano Roosevelt did exactly the opposite: he created tens of thousands of jobs through TVA, NRA and WPA and never, ever made people on benefit feel they ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629406/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:34 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629406/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould I have it up to the eye teeth with Jewish and Zionist friends and correspondents writing in hysterical tones to me ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629404/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:34 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629404/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London Whether or not the effects of the BP explosion and subsequent environmental disaster were overblown (the British media are saying it was) it is to me of importance to register the level of America-hatred that spewed forth at the height of the crisis. What is also astonishing is the lack of sympathy the British media have for the still-scarred folks who ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629405/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629405/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould In October 2008 the BBC became embroiled in a controversy over the live broadcast of lewd phonecalls made by Russell Brand ( he who so enraged American audiences when he hosted an LA awards show) and Jonathan Ross to the actor Andrew sachs. In the course of the broadcast Brand boasted of a sexual encounter with the actor's granddaughter.The British ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629410/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:32 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629410/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould In the wake of risng anti-Americanism because of the BP crisis and the desire of American senators to interview Scottish officials about the release of Lockerbie terrorist Abdelbaset ali al Megrahi, here are some thoughts from last Christmas.LondonOn Christmas Day I spent lunch and tea listening to a long discourse about the demise of the British Empire. For many ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629409/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:31 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629409/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Image: Chef Gary Rhodes and a member of the public*******************My enduring memory of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629411/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:28 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629411/scat/6224488e41617199 http://www.pajamasmedia.com .London May 31, 2010Not a week goes by in Great Britain that there ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629413/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:27 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629413/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London As September came to a close Lord Heseltine, the man who held high office under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, appeared on the popular BBC primetime television program Question Time and promptly made a pronouncement that floored me.The show had been focusing on ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629415/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:22 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629415/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonSeptember marks the seventieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Throughout the month there are commemorations connected with the momentous events that marked the beginning of a war that eventually saw fifty million souls lose their lives. On September 20, just under the window where I sit writing this piece, a Spitfire flew over central London ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629417/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:21 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629417/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould This is a Seminal Moment in the History of an ancient Civilizationby Carol GouldJune 24th, 2009I cannot help thinking of how much my late mother, a lifetime political activist, would have been glued to her television watching the momentous events in Iran unfolding as June, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein song ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629427/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:13 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629427/scat/6224488e41617199 LondonDuring the past month the British Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has been embroiled in a scandal involving the purchase by her husband of pornographic films; the media have grabbed onto this story with glee because it is an engaging distraction from the horrendous credit crisis and other world calamities. Because the films were acquired on an expense account she promised to repay Her ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629420/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:09 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629420/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonOn March 11th, the fifth anniversary of the Muslim terror attacks on Madrid I found in my Inbox an excited email from a Palestinian group urging Americans to wake up -- ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629431/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:04 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629431/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould 8th March 2009LondonI nearly fell of my chair as the Jewish Sabbath came in on Friday 6th March, having just read my esteemed colleague Michael ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629430/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:04 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629430/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonOn 21 February 130 delegates from 40 countries took part in a British government-backed conference of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA ). On 22 February this coalition, also known as the London Conference on anti-Semitism, convened by a group whose majority was non-Jewish, issued a statement acknowledging that the scourge ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629434/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:03 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629434/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonDuring the recent Gaza conflict and in its aftermath it has been open season on Israel across the globe. From a synagogue in Caracas to a Jewish member of my local community in London being set upon by anti-Semitic thugs, there has been a wave of anti-Jewish sentiment that goes beyond criticism of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629435/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:02 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629435/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London 5 January 2009I attended the Hate Israel Rally held in ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629436/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:01 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629436/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London3 November 2008Those outside the United Kingdom will be blissfully unaware of a news story that knocked everything else off the front pages of British newspapers this week: two of the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629437/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:59 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629437/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould 11 November 2008LondonEvery year I have commented on the lamentable lack of interest shown by Britain's immigrant population in the great traditions of this country.This year I feel I must broaden my complaint to the general population. In the weeks leading up to Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day I have noticed that I am the only person wearing a poppy ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629433/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:58 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629433/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonFirst, let us get something clear: it is stated in Leviticus that sodomy is an abomination.Second, let us have clarity on the subject of women in the clergy: it just ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629439/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:55 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629439/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould D-Day 2008 : An American in London This article also appeared in New Media Journal USLondon5th June 2008This evening, as I began to prepare for bed, I looked at the calendar in my bathroom and realised it was the dawn of D-Day. I am an insomniac and the birds were already singing when I put my trash outside the front door for the Friday collection.Because I did ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629440/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:53 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629440/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonTonight we learn that Pat Regan, a brave and tireless housewife-turned-anti-gang campaigner in Leeds has been found murdered, apparently by her own grandchild. Her own grandchild!The United Kingdom is in a terrible and tragic crisis as more and more youngsters kill and maim one another with knives and guns. Gang violence is beginning to consume police ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629442/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:52 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629442/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Those of us who were glued to the finals of the American primary election excitement last night will have noted that Republican nominee Senator John McCain, soon to select a running mate, was introduced by thirty-six-year-old Republican Piyush 'Bobby' Jindal, the first Asian-American governor of Louisiana. The energetic and charismatic Jindal, whose ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629441/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:52 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629441/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonThis past year United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could easily have been mistaken for a Democrat. Her frequent and aggressive assignations in Israel have left observers convinced she is not interested in the support of the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629443/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:51 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629443/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London I nearly fell off my chair yesterday, sitting in my favourite ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629444/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:50 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629444/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould I would like to make one apology to Liverpool fans: the last line of my editorial mentioned Rodgers and Hammerstein and I stressed they were Americans and Jews. This made many Liverpool Football Club fans believe I was accusing them of anti-Semitism. This was not meant to be the case. Much of the article was about other clubs and what appears to me and to many of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629446/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:49 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629446/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London9th March 2008If one blinked or went off to make a cup of tea one would have missed it, but on Sunday 24 February, as I was waiting for the Oscar ceremony broadcast on British Sky, I switched to MSNBC and heard Ralph Nader utter a remarkable pronouncement ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629447/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:47 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629447/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould 4 March 2008London[Editor's Note: I wrote this article a few days before a remarkable row erupted in Britain: a Commanding Officer at an RAF Base has asked the pilots nto to wear uniforms when in town. This has caused a storm and inspired a wave of discussion on how badly British serviemen and women are treated by some of the citizenry. Dare I say Current ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629449/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:46 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629449/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor 7 January 2008**********************There is a weird synchronicity to the events of this week : elections in three countries thousands of miles apart and spanning three great continents have caused major political earthquakes.The assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan has thrown that ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629450/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:42 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629450/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor LondonRecently a colleague sent me a report (3 September 2007 ) written by Matthew Holehouse ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629452/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:40 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629452/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould **********************25 October, 2007LondonIn November 2006 Yasmin Alibhai Brown wrote a remarkable editorial in 'The Evening Standard' in which she expressed her shame at having refused to wear a poppy in 2005. In the intervening year she had met ethnic minority war veterans who were particularly hurt by her impetuous attitude. (She had returned her ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629454/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:39 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629454/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Associate Editor On 8th October in London I was privileged to attend a by-invitation only paper, the Leslie Prince Memorial Lecture, delivered by General Sir Rupert Smith and presented by The Anglo-Jewish Association, which has helped 100,000 students in UK education. The General was Commander of UN Forces in Bosnia in 1995, was General Officer commanding Northern ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629453/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:39 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629453/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Alan Senitt, The Somme and Zidanefirst published July 19, 2006On the weekend of July 8th 2006 the Prince of Wales represented Great Britain at the sombre commemorations of the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme in which hundreds of thousands of young men lost their lives in one of the most costly military undertakings in modern history. Young men from ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629456/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:37 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629456/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor America Beckons Once MoreNow, a new boycott of Israel by the Irish nation makes one feel it is no longer nice for Jews to be in the British ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629455/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:37 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629455/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonThe other night I was in a restaurant with a Jewish friend who said he was shocked to the core of his being that any couple could leave their tiny children unattended as they dined away from their holiday chalet. The topic was, of course, the internationally-reported story of little Madeleine McCann, snatched from her bed on 3 May in Praia da Luz, a ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629459/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:35 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629459/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editors Watch London discussion webcast 'Culture Calsh' hosted by Times journalist Peter Whittle, who is also Director of New Culture Forum in the United ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629461/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:34 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629461/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonIn the first week of May this year a remarkable achievement was made in the annals of British Intelligence. Omar Khyam, Waheed Mahmoud, Anthony Garcia, Jawad Akbar and Salahuddin Amin were convicted of conspiring to perpetrate an atrocity on the British mainland that would have put 9/11 in the shade. All British citizens, the men plotted over a stretch of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629460/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:34 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629460/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London 26 April 2007The headline on the cover ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629462/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629462/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London4 April 2007Last Friday I attended the annual Lincoln Day Dinner presented by Republicans Abroad at the Cavalry and Guards Club in London. The guest speaker was Borghese executive Georgette Mosbacher. Being descended from a long line of died-in-the-wool Democrats I had been in two minds about attending the event until a disturbing incident two weeks ago. ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629465/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629465/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London 13 February 2007Today the United Nations released a report compiled by UNICEF on the wellbeing of the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629464/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:32 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629464/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould The Westminster Media Forum Policy Seminar: Ethnicity and the Media: January 31, 2007Report and Comment by Carol ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629463/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:31 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629463/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London2 February 2007A sequence of news events occurred this week here in Britain that made it all the more reassuring to me that I have a home in a safe and steadfast country called the United States of America. The reason why I mention this is because a considerable number of Europeans harangues me about the 'Zionist lobby' running America. Well, ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629466/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:31 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629466/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould The Clash of Civilisations Conference at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre: January 20 2007by Carol GouldLondonJust over a year ago I attended ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629467/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:30 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629467/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonDo not let anyone tell you that breast cancer surgery is a doddle. Notwithstanding the fact that I did not have a mastectomy but had a mere excision biopsy, it was a horrible and traumatic ordeal that changes ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629468/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:29 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629468/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Three things stand out from the year just ended that have caused me considerable distress.The first is the constant accusation in the British public discourse that the United States has too close a relationship with Israel and that American Jews have undue influence over national policy. What I find astonishing about the way Britons pontificate about Americans, ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629469/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:28 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629469/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould There are times when one senses a kind of madness is descending on the country of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629472/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:26 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629472/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould In the past few days the fine journalists Michael Henderson and Emily Bell and the distinguished television producer Sir Jeremy Isaacs have written scathing articles about the state of British television.This crisis fits in with the current debate on rampant juvenile delinquency, teen pregnancies and violence amongst football supporters. Why? Because, as I said ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629471/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:26 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629471/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould What an irony that the expression that best fits the present state of the American electorate is one coined by Donald ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629475/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:24 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629475/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould In the past two weeks Britain has been gripped by a public debate about the niqab, or black head-to-toe veil worn by some Muslim women. The debate was sparked by an article written by Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw for the Lancashire Telegraph, the newspaper of his Blackburn constituency, in which he reflected that it would be appropriate for Muslim ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629474/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:23 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629474/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Image: Modern Tel Aviv *****************LondonThe obsession Britons have with ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629477/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:22 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629477/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonA disturbing debate has erupted here in Great Britain over the appalling manner in which British servicemen and women are treated when they return from Iraq and Afghanistan.A news story this week reports that Lord Bramall, a former Chief of Staff, is dismayed by the news of a British paratrooper being verbally threatened by a Muslim visitor to a public ward ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629479/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:21 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629479/scat/6224488e41617199 ****************What Exactly is Anti-Semitism?Over the past year the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629481/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:20 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629481/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould In good faith I sat down to watch 'The Doomsday Code' on Britain's Channel Four on 16 September, touted as a two-hour primetime special, thinking it would be an insight into Da Vinci Code issues. Instead, what ensued was a cruelly biased and distorted view of the State of Israel and of Ugandan Christians.Tony Robinson, the host, spent a good ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629480/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:20 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629480/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor A fortnight ago I received an email responding to an article I had written about the decline in social standards in Britain. The annoyed correspondent told me ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629483/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:19 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629483/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Today I received a newsletter from Dr Sam Bahour, an American doctor who lives in Ramallah. I do not refute the fact that his life is difficlut and that many wrongs must be righted in the Holy Land. However, he has referred to the United States Congress as 'Israeli-occupied.'I usually appreciate and take onboard Sam's thoughtful letters. However I ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629482/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:19 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629482/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor I had vowed not to think about, write about or otherwise spend valuable time ruminating over the bizarre and obnoxious antics of London ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629485/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:16 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629485/scat/6224488e41617199 The Dave Brown cartoon of a naked Ariel Sharon about to eat the head of a baby and the award of 'cartoon content of the year' to the image caused consternation in the Anglo-Jewish community but not one spot of violence. It ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629486/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:14 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629486/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London --In recent weeks the word ?apology? has crept into the daily discourse as often as we in Britain ?ave a pint down the pub.? London?s Mayor ?Red Ken? Livingstone was meant to apologise to a reporter from ?The Jewish Chronicle? for shouting at him and accusing him of behaving like a Nazi guard. To date it seems Livingstone has not done so and is due for a ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629489/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:11 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629489/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor LONDONfiled 9 November 2005'..It is better sometimes to lose doing the right thing than to win doing the wrong thing.."Prime Minister Tony Blair 9 November 2005********It is vitally important for those outside the United Kingdom to understand both the implications and the complexities of the defeat by Tony Blair?s government in the gravely important ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629487/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:11 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629487/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould London --Last year I went back to the USA for the first time in over a decade, having lived in Great Britain for twenty-nine years since arriving there from Philadelphia as a Temple University Abroad student. What struck me more than anything when I returned to the USA in 2004 was the constant fear Americans have of getting sick and needing a clutch of expensive ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629490/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:10 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629490/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor I have been criticised from various quarters ( all said quarters in the UK) for ?writing about America? and for filling these pages with anti-British bilge. One amusing aspect of all this is that most irate letter-writers accuse me of being utterly ?ignorant? (when writing about Britain, where I have lived for thirty years) whilst others tell me ?stop writing ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629492/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:07 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629492/scat/6224488e41617199 **********************To the Manchester United Fans...I feel really bruised and battered. This is particularly hard because I am already disabled and walk with a stick. This week an article I penned some time ago about the reaction of Manchester United fans to the acquisition of the legendary soccer team by American tycoon Malcolm Glazer seems to have been resurrected amongst Man U club fans. In ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629493/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:06 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629493/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor Readers of this magazine may wonder why there has been a decline in volume in our content. We have no shortage of material available for our ?Guest Opinions? section, but our main section at the top of the homepage has been bereft of material for a specific reason.In recent months we have been at the receiving end of -- well, not exactly hate mail -- a few letters ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629496/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:04 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629496/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould I have been thinking about what the United States Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld has said in an interview with British television personality Sir David Frost about the dangers of al Jazeera Television and web magazine.The fundamental problem is that in the USA nobody, not even the most erudite and highly placed, understands that it is NOT just al Jazeera ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629495/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:03 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629495/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Editor's Update: 18 MayGalloway having now had his day in the Senate, the following was one of many editorials:Washington Times Editorial, May 18 'Unfortunately, the most talked-about aspect of [the senate sub-committee hearings] is Mr Galloway's vitriolic attack on the integrity of [chairman] Norm Coleman and the sub-committee, his denunciation of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629497/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:02 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629497/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould The editorial below first appeared on this site and in 'FrontPage Mag' last October 2004.'The Power of Nightmares,' in which the BBC's Adam Curtis purports that a group of mostly Jewish American neoconservatives are as heinous as bin Laden, has now premiered at the Cannes Festival.Please read our views on this documentary, which we found ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629494/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:02 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629494/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Margaret Thatcher had a vision of a society in which every family owned a home and state pensions could be phased out. Her vision ended in despair for tens of thousands of Britons when the stock and property markets bottomed out. In recent years millions of Britons who did manage to hold onto their properties have been the victims of the crash of the Endowment ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629499/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:00 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629499/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Every time an event occurs that brings the Executive branch of the United States government into conflict with the Judiciary one is tempted to wonder what Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson would have thought of the matter in question.In recent weeks the United States has been gripped once more by the story of the severely disabled stroke-victim Terri ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629498/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:00 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629498/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Recently an advisory was sent to one of this magazine?s writers from the Friends of al-Aqsa, a group based in Great Britain whose purpose is to bring into the public dialogue the issues exercising Palestinians, not the least of which is the Right of Palestinian Return.The advisory announces with considerable fanfare the British charity Oxfam?s cessation of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629501/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:58 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629501/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor Our readership will be dazed and confused to read that I am thrilled to be back on a visit to London. In recent months I have been writing with relentless passion of the virulent anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism that seems to be consuming this island nation. My first little trip was to attend my local NHS surgery for my annual battery of blood tests. The bevy of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629504/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:57 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629504/scat/6224488e41617199 that states that the years of relentless bias against Israel and exaggerated accusations against the Jewish State and against Jews in the UK media have metamorphosed into physical attacks. Great Britain is now at the top of the league for violent incidents, the majority of which are reported to be instigated by young men of Middle Eastern origin. There is a considerable and growing white ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629503/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:57 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629503/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould An impassioned and at times enraged Senator Edward Kennedy delivered a powerful message to the Bush Administration in an hour-long speech to the National Press Club in Washington. The Massachusetts senior senator was barely able to conceal his anger in enumerating the many aspects of American domestic and international policy that he feels are a massive blemish ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629502/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:56 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629502/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor At the 3rd December Pentagon Briefing by Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Public Affairs Lawrence di Rita and Brigadier General David Rodriguez a series of slides was shown illustrating the extent of the activities of insurgents in Fallujah. From remote radios used as triggering devices for explosives to detonation cords hidden inside bags of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629506/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:55 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629506/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould 22 will always be a significant number for what remains of my lifetime. On December 22nd, 2003, just over a year ago, I was sitting in the waiting room of the breast cancer consultant at St Thomas? Hospital in Hammersmith, London, in mortal terror of the results of seven biopsies on my right breast.A week before I had been called in after an abnormal mammogram ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629507/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:55 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629507/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor In his first Pentagon press conference since a trip to Central and South America that included an inspection of the Panama Canal, United States Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld noted that peaceful democracies have emerged from a turbulent Latin America and that elections have been held with success in that region as well as in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan. ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629508/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:54 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629508/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor We at Current Viewpoint have been enjoying Melinda Henneberger?s ?Agreeing to Disagree? in the post-US election issue of Newsweek, in which she recounts the arguments that arose in the wake of the American Presidential election and the effect of the rhetoric on small children.Here is my take: I have lived in Great Britain for nearly thirty years, and except for a ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629509/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:52 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629509/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Editor's Note: We posted this essay earlier this evening and have now seen the Osama bin Laden video on television. First: This video, the first in which he claims responsibility for the events of September 11, 2001 puts the BBC's documentary, 'The Power of Nightmares' into the realm of science fiction.Second, his tape puts paid at last to the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629511/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:51 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629511/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Philips This is an Awards for All-themed essay.***************Recently I succumbed to encouragement by friends to travel to the USA despite my nightmare of two years of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME, a severely diseased foot and having endured a clutch of breast biopsies -- thankfully benign -- plus bouts of malaise. I had not travelled to the USA for nearly eleven years ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629510/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:50 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629510/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould It was all the more instructive for me that I had had negligible exposure to Molly Ivins when I heard her speak in Philadelphia this week. Of mature years, Ivins is an iconoclastic columnist who combines homespun Texan humour with cutting criticism of American political figures. She has become a household name in the United States and received a standing ovation ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629514/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:49 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629514/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor Something remarkable has been happening to me in the past nineteen days. Wherever I go, no-one launches abuse at me. When I open my mouth to speak, I am received with civility and the occasional ? Have a good one.? I am not attacked or intimidated to the point of abject fear and loathing. Where have I been visiting for the past two and a half weeks? And where do I ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629513/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:49 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629513/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould We attended the 2004 Eisenhower National security Conference in Washington and came away with one ringing memory: the final speech by former Congressman Lee Hamilton, who now presides over the Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars.So, where does one start? Perhaps it is best to hold readers in suspense and leave the Hamilton speech to the end of this report. An ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629515/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:48 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629515/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor The media have been quick to pick up on the fact that at the National Press Club on Friday 10 September, US Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld twice alluded to Saddam Hussein?s deeds of ill when in fact he meant Osama bin Laden.I attended the Press Club luncheon and immediately thought, ?Hmmm, Fruedian slip.? Those of us who have lived and worked in the Middle ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629517/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:48 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629517/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor I have spent the past ten days in Washington DC. It is my first visit to the United States in many years and I wanted to share with our readers some of my impressions.One of the stark differences that strikes the visitor from London is the warmth and dedication of American workers. Our flight was hair-raising: we had to land when a cluster of tornadoes was ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629516/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:47 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629516/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Cay Philips I have just been to see the acclaimed feature documentary ?My Architect? (see below in our 'Reviews' section a critique of the film) about the legendary American architect Louis Khan. The film was directed and written by his son Nathaniel, who was born out of wedlock and who has only just begun to explore the depth of his late father?s work some thirty ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629518/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:46 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629518/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Cay Philips I am in the process of writing a stage play about racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. The material itself is difficult because the black revolution was in full swing by the time I was reaching adulthood. One of the actors in the play, an Afro-Caribbean British man, is not at all offended by the use of the ?N? word in my ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629519/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:45 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629519/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor I cannot refrain from being mystified by the French reaction to Ariel Sharon?s ?in your face? declaration that Jews in France should make aliyah en masse.Both Jewish and non-Jewish French spokespeople have, with considerable vehemence, denounced the Israeli Prime Minister?s exhortation as a ploy to appeal to the American Zionist movement. The theme used by these ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629521/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:44 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629521/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Americans for Peace Now FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7, 2004APN Calls On Bush To Hold Firm On Settlement Outpost DismantlementWashington, D.C.?Americans for Peace Now (APN) today sent a letter to President George W. Bush calling on him to hold firm in insisting on Israel living up to its commitments on the question of dismantling settlement outposts in the West Bank. The ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629520/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:44 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629520/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor On Saturday June 5, 2004 despite a prolonged illness I plucked up my courage and travelled on the Brittany Ferry ?Normandie? with a group of British veterans of D Day to the same shores they had conquered sixty years before. Portsmouth City Council had pulled out all the stops to secure me entry to the historic 'Round Tower' along its shores to enable me ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629523/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:43 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629523/scat/6224488e41617199 ****************Photograph: 'Free Palestine' demonstrators in Trafalgar Square May 2004**************************Every time I open a newspaper or look at television (other than Fox ) it seems there is a running mantra about ?the Jews? controlling the world?s media or ? the Washington neo cons ? ( translation: Jews Perle, Wolfowitz and Feith) . Tonight on a CNN Special about the handover ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629524/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:42 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629524/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Cay Philips As the sixtieth anniversary of D-Day approaches, and our minds travel back to that day in which thousands of courageous Allied troops died on the beaches of Normandy, I am thinking about my late mother, Corporal Katherine Karash, WAC.This week the images of Lynndie England, the 21-year-old American servicewoman posing near naked Iraqis in Abu Ghraib jail have ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629525/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:40 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629525/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor Tonight we are learning that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon?s Likud party membership, in a national Referendum, has resoundingly rejected his Gaza pullout plan. In the same day, Palestinian terrorists ambushed a car in which a pregnant Jewish woman was riding with her four young children. All were gravely wounded and were finished off with bullets to the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629530/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:38 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629530/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editors For the past few weeks we have been attending a string of London conferences, seminars and one-day events presented by the anti-war movements and by a Palestinian organisation.The climax of all of this has been the televised investigation of the September 11th terrorist attacks being held in Washington. Dignitary after dignitary has been appearing before this ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629528/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:37 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629528/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editors In the space of three weeks, the mood of the British public has moved from a wave of loathing of the BBC to a near-mass hysteria about its incomparable greatness.Three weeks ago we wrote about the demise of ?Kilroy,? a popular BBC television programme hosted by former MP Robert Kilroy Silk. The BBC management had decided it was inappropriate for a presenter to ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629531/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:35 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629531/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor Fate has a way of bringing the most unlikely of companions together. The other night I attended a seminar at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London concerning the future of the BBC post-Hutton. The evening was unedifying and disturbing because the panel seemed to think the future of broadcasting revolves around a multitude of digital channels. Having been ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629527/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:35 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629527/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Cay Philips The resignation of television journalist Robert Kilroy Silk from his daily BBC programme this past weekend, after his suspension by the Corporation a week ago, is a watershed event in the history of broadcasting. Kilroy, as he is known in Great Britain, had written an editorial in ?The Sunday Express? a year ago about the threat of Arab and Muslim extremist ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629532/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:34 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629532/scat/6224488e41617199 Although much of what the report says has some truth in it (Americans are much more religious than the populations of any other Western nation ) it suggests that Americans cannot get ahead unless they are religious. It is possible that I am misreading the article and therefore not understanding its point, but the idea that secular Americans have a tougher time is a tenuous one. Going through my ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629534/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:34 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629534/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor This has been a week of unusual news stories. In the space of a few hours, a woman was reported to have been detained at an undisclosed airport with explosives secreted in her ?body cavity,? and pop star Britney Spears got married and unmarried. Aside from the fact that the Britney stunt could make one, at a stretch, understand why illiterate young men mesmerised ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629535/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629535/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Last week I wrote about the experience of having an abnormal mammogram result and the ensuing investigations. (See the article at the bottom of this one.)It has been a depressing and lonely week. God help anyone who has to endure the wait between biopsy and result all on their own. How many times this week I envied married women or single mothers, who have the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629536/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:32 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629536/scat/6224488e41617199 The difference, of course, is that Rabin was a Nobel Peace Prize winner and was seeking peace in our time whereas Bush and Blair have chosen war to quell despots and terrorists. In Turkey this past weekend two murderous bombings took place outside major shuls in Istanbul on Shabbat morning. This during Ramadan, not to mention the upsurge in murders in Iraq during the Holy Month. Today in Italy a ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629538/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:30 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629538/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor Watching the American and British flags being burned in Trafalgar Square in the same twenty-four hour period in late November in which two British landmarks were bombed in Istanbul, I was struck by the anger of the crowds in the London piazza.The day after the bombings, the British papers carried a colour photograph of the torn and singed Union Jacks salvaged from ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629537/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:30 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629537/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Jonathan D Zagdanski October 31, 2003I recently returned from Baghdad, Iraq, where I served as an infantry platoon leader of 26 men during nearly 6 months of combat operations. We were part of the 3rd Infantry Division, the unit that led the invasion into Iraq and captured Baghdad. Our political and military leaders told us before the invasion that we were key players in the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629539/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:28 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629539/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor I was about to launch into a tirade about the BBC but I am duly humbled by the fact that the new BBC series on British satellite television, ?The Israeli Generals? is actually the product of an overwhelmingly Jewish and Israeli production team.My complaint arises from the opening sequence about Yitzhak Rabin. The birth of the state is described as if the script ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629541/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:28 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629541/scat/6224488e41617199 ***********************October 27, 2003by Carol Devine-MolinA leaked memo written by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, intended only for the eyes of a few Pentagon bigwigs, has generated considerable controversy in recent days. The left-leaning media pack is out in full-force as they attempt to wield that ?internal memo? as a weapon to undermine Rumsfeld?s public credibility. Part of the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629540/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:27 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629540/scat/6224488e41617199 *********************Whenever I read about ?Jews not being allowed to pray at the Temple Mount? I go crazy. Here I am, a follower of the Liberal-Progressive tradition , and I am defending the rights of the pious to daven at that most holy of places.This has nothing to do with being orthodox or liberal. It has to do with the deeply-ingrained tradition, first disseminated by the Founding Fathers, ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629542/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:26 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629542/scat/6224488e41617199 Every time an ?Arab spokesman? is on television to speak about anything from the ?American Zionist lobby? to Iraq to the terrible Bushites to desecration of Muslim holy sites by infidel visitors, the story of Sabra and Shatila is wheeled out as an illustration of why Osama and all ?enraged? non-Jews and non-Christians and non-Hindus hate America and the Jews. I remember the moving and deeply ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629543/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:25 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629543/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Cay Philips Once more the world?s media are at it again about the evil Jews crawling all over America and intimidating the goyim and everyone else so that Israel may expand overnight to the size of all of Arabia. This is an interesting phenomenon. It is, in essence, exactly the same as the ?Protocols of the Elders of Zion? and other insidious tracts that fantasized a ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629544/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:24 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629544/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Sheila Raviv September 11th 2003It is still surreal, like a terrible scene from a "b" movie where the bad guys are exaggeratedly bad and the good guys die. Those terrible hours 'til I found my children, the calls to Canada to call New York and just find them, find them, were all part of that script of evil. It is so beyond the imagination of any sane and ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629546/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:24 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629546/scat/6224488e41617199 Into this brew comes the deeply disturbing Hutton Inquiry investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly on 17th July. The most chilling aspect of the proceedings, which have filled the pages of every British tabloid and broadsheet for weeks, was the revelation that Dr Kelly told a colleague as long ago as February that he ?would be found in a wood.? Every ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629547/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:23 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629547/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor CBS News is BlessedOn this Tisha B?Av, the skies above London are crystal clear and the heat is unlike anything I have experienced except perhaps in Tel Aviv in the summertime. There is no breeze and the temperature in my flat is close to 95 Fahrenheit. (Old Europe is not renowned for the proliferation of luxuries like air conditioners.)In the southern sky the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629548/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:22 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629548/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould Inasmuch as I suffer from a long-term malady I never cease to feel immense sorrow when hearing about Americans foregoing their prescribed medications because they can no longer afford them. In Britain, a prescription has a flat cost of ?6.20 -- just under $10 -- and if a patient is on medications for life he or she may purchase an ?Exemption Certificate? for ?89 ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629545/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:20 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629545/scat/6224488e41617199 http://www.telegraph.co.uk etc etc etcMeanwhile, London's newspapers have been making statements that have dumbfounded many of us, but these pronouncements have not by any means reached the level of national debate. In an article in ?The Guardian? entitled ?There will be no Middle East peace without Hamas? Martin Woollacott on 13th June made this astonishing observation that this generation ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629557/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:19 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629557/scat/6224488e41617199 ********************************I went out tonight in London with a strongly Zionist friend who thinks Ariel Sharon is God. We found ourselves on Edgware Road, where we had a delicious dinner in a Lebanese restaurant and then we ?migrated? to the Green Valley Supermarket to shop for groceries. The Green Valley is owned by Palestinians who made an effort during the height of the Intifadah to tell ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629558/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:19 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629558/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor Editor's Note:No sooner had this article gone to press with JewishComment than a soldier was killed at the Cave of the Machpelah. He could be one of the congenial young men who was so obliging to the BBC's Mr Cruickshank. Here is an excerpt from the Jerusalem Post's report:'Israeli killed in Hebron identified as soldier'The Jerusalem Post ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629559/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:18 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629559/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor As mentioned in my previous article about ?The Killing Zone? (please scroll down to the 'REVIEWS' section below ) there seems to be a festival of British television at present concentrating on the worst possible views of the Jewish State. Let?s look at an imaginary scenario:Britain has a crime problem as does any western democracy. There are ?no go? ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629549/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:17 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629549/scat/6224488e41617199 ********************It is late on Wednesday night and past my bedtime but I decided to browse the Internet once more before turning in. Perhaps I am na?ve and perhaps I have learned nothing from years of study of the Arab-Israeli relationship, but the headline in Ha?aretz about Jews praying at the Temple Mount made me postpone bedtime.?Jordan on Wednesday warned the Israeligovernment against ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629556/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:16 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629556/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor I don?t care if we do not find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. At the moment, the Left-wing press in the UK, and the MPs who voted against Tony Blair?s war resolution (please be reminded that he was not required under law and under what is known as Royal Prerogative to hold the vote but did so to give the anti-war bloc a chance to have their say; had they ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629555/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:16 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629555/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor The British art critic Brian Sewell has become notorious in the past few years as a fierce critic of Israel and even wrote an irate piece about Jewish aspirations for a Holocaust Museum outside London. As a reward, he received the coveted Orwell Prize in early April in London. He is reviled by many but continues to flourish. On 8th April 2003 he wrote an article ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629553/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:15 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629553/scat/6224488e41617199 ************************I have a new view I'd like to share with you folks two weeks into this war. It will surprise and amaze you, what with all the pain American expats suffer and all the complaining done about anti-USA sentiment in the UK media.I have noticed that despite the setbacks for British forces and the tough battles and lack of supplies (UK forces have had real equipment ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629554/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:15 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629554/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : The Editor I have just returned from what I had fully expected would be an unpleasant experience, but I did not bank on the scope of its unpleasantness. I was invited to attend a live broadcast of the Jonathan Dimbleby programme at the ITV studios in London. The programme itself, a debate on the Iraq War and its aftermath, was civilised and informative, but the trouble came ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629552/scat/6224488e41617199 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:13:14 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214629552/scat/6224488e41617199