Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

|| Melvin Laird on Vietnam and the lessons for Iraq || Martin Kettle on getting a sensible response to terrorism || Nick Cohen on secularist Maryam Namazie || James Harkin on Adam Phillips and Freud  || Ray Kurzweil & Bill Joy on the flu genome || Noam Chomsky the number one intellectual  || Kathy Brewis on painter Samuel Palmer  || Peter Preston on fiction vs literary fiction  || Song mentioning devil banned from school band  || In the papers ||

"Chronologically the first of the three "social" announcements came for the Peace Prize. Mohammed El Baradei prize was not welcomed by the glass-is-half-empty crowd. Many of these would have preferred someone like Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu. ...Of course receiving the Nobel Peace Prize is no proof of being commendable or, for that matter, making a great contribution for peace. Think of Henry Kissinger..." Sol Salbe

"There is a growing divergence between the legal profession and parliamentarians over what we lawyers see as an obscene auction on law and order between the Government and Opposition both in this State and Federally." Malcolm B Duncan