Terry Jupp - 1956 to 20 August 2002

I was thinking about those who deserve special remembering

The most brilliant demolition job on Blair's version of reality with those pesky little facts....

Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan’s polemical take on politics, economics and foreign affairs

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So, fail to protect a member of the public going good from work, beat a member of the public for on reason, fail to render him assistance that's all find with the CPS. But tip someone off about a search warrant

A policewoman has been charged after being accused of tipping off a person about a potential raid by officers.


Pc Grania Hale, 34, was suspended from her duties with Sussex Police after being charged with misconduct in public office.

Blotting your copybook (from Fears Russian wildfires could drive radioactive Chernobyl waste ...)

Yury Luzhkov left for holidays and "treatment for a serious sports injury" as the city sweltered on 2 August and did not return until Sunday, several days after a toxic cloud had enveloped Moscow.

interesting point of view from jfjfp.com/?p=16048

Great article in The Guardian with Bo Jo on apparently sparkling form

For example

"The Tory mayor said he was determined to spark a cycling renaissance in London. In 1904, 20% of all journeys in the city were made by bike, he said, 'and if you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?'"

"'It took a Conservative mayor to do a deeply, deeply communist thing.'"

I wonder who could help them with their inquiries?!

World news

Audit reveals billions of dollars of Iraqi oil funds gone missing

• guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
• Martin Chulov in Baghdad

The US department of defence has called in forensic accountants to help track $8.1bn (£5.2bn) of $9.1bn in Iraq's oil revenue entrusted to it after the fall of Baghdad, following an official audit that revealed the money was missing. The funds were to be used for spending on reconstruction during 2004-07, a period when Iraq was under weak transitional rule.

So the Pentagon doesn't do war, intelligence or accounting .... wonder what it is good at?

As a side report in today's report about the tangible effects of loneliness on heaalth:

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