I sometimes wonder why I still bother with The Guardian. It seems to get more right-wing every day, and frequently carries arse-lickin’ articles praising David Cameron as if he were the new saviour, rather than an old, re-hashed Tony Blair.
But today’s piece by Seamus Milne, The impunity of Israel and its allies will carry a price about Brown and Miliband’s grovelling apologies to Tzipi Livni over the universal jurisdiction case was worth the price on its own.
No doubt both Britain and the US, with their own record of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, fear that if universal jurisdiction is applied to Israel it could be catching. This was a principle that was apparently only intended to apply to countries that challenge western power or African states, not a “strategic partner” and “close friend”, as Miliband described Israel this week.
And then, on the same day, we find this article on the devastation in Gaza. Chillingly good stuff.
It’s just a shame that they have to thrust this sort of crap on us in the same newspaper.
Too true, Bob. I feel exactly the same ambivalence towards the paper. Seamus did another good article on Mrs Justice Sucks Management as well today here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/17/ba-strike-injunction
Bob.
That last Guardian link doesn’t seem to lead anywhere. It just goes to a blank Movable Type page on your own blog. A lesser man might make a comment about the Left leading us nowhere as usual, but I’ll refrain just this once.
BTW. I see Bercow is trying to cook up some nonsense about there being a safe seat that only the Speaker can run for. Surely he’s not ‘frit’ of Farage is he?
Thanks, Mr Jolly. Link fixed… although it really isn’t worth the click anyway.
Can’t say I’m bothered about Speaker Bercow’s fate myself, although he seems marginally less swivel-eyed than Farage.
No offense, ahem, but what the hell where you doing in the fashion section of the Guardian in any case?!
Michael… I’ll have you know… I’m a bit of a fashion guru…. (in Sandwell).