Guardian Unlimited Books / Special Reports / Original fiction
"Stuck for summer reading? This week's Weekend is devoted entirely to brand new fiction from leading authors. So pour yourself a long drink, settle down in your deckchair, and enjoy ..."
Extremely loud and incredibly close
Two German immigrants in New York mould a future from holes in the past in this story by Jonathan Safran Foer.
If I'm spared
Can the death knell turn an adrenaline junkie's life around in Helen Simpson's story of addiction and redemption?
Notebook no. 9
William Boyd gives us a glimpse into the musings of an ageing film director.
The white room
A celebration of moments under the microscope in Jeanette Winterson's tale of desire.
The dogs
A nightmare scenario unfolds in this short story by Hanif Kureishi.
The white room
A celebration of moments under the microscope in Jeanette Winterson's tale of desire.
Trcks
One woman finds herself in a real life Shakespearean mix-up in Alice Munro's tale of thwarted love.
We ate the children last
A medical breakthrough leads to a social experiment that goes horribly wrong in this tale by Yann Martel.
Click on the link above for the page listing these and many other online short stories.
Ossian
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Apparition
The other night while shambling past the Willesden library centre...
...I swear I thought I saw Josh Davis of The Muse and the Mechanism in Osama's phonebox (the one with the number that Osama made about twenty calls to from his satellite phone.) I was seriously thinking about giving up the booze. Then I found this image in my digital camera. Eerie.
Ossian
...I swear I thought I saw Josh Davis of The Muse and the Mechanism in Osama's phonebox (the one with the number that Osama made about twenty calls to from his satellite phone.) I was seriously thinking about giving up the booze. Then I found this image in my digital camera. Eerie.
Ossian
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Fly-tippers are getting worse
This picture was taken this morning. North End Road, the same Wembley back road we showed you on June 16th, blocked by fly-tippers has been hit again. Now Willesden has been hit by these ruthless shitehawks.
Here is the path from Donnington Road to the Willesden Sports Centre, this evening.
Next time your builder says, 'Oh don't worry, I'll get rid of that rubbish. No problem,' insist that they take it to the local dump, and budget for it.
Mobile Unit
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Monday, July 12, 2004
Blair quits, Brown to lead Lib-Lab government
In his resignation statement, Tony Blair today admitted that he had "failed to convince the public that he was always right." Gordon Brown declared that he was very happy to work with Charles Kennedy, and that the objectives of Labour and the Liberal Democrats were not very different. Labour's failure to gain an overall majority has led to the revival of the infamous Lib-Lab pact.
Newsdesk
I told you to prepare it, not to POST it! Ed.
In his resignation statement, Tony Blair today admitted that he had "failed to convince the public that he was always right." Gordon Brown declared that he was very happy to work with Charles Kennedy, and that the objectives of Labour and the Liberal Democrats were not very different. Labour's failure to gain an overall majority has led to the revival of the infamous Lib-Lab pact.
Newsdesk
I told you to prepare it, not to POST it! Ed.
Saturday, July 10, 2004
Mother Redcaps, Christchurch, Dublin, August 4th, 6 p.m.
nosafetynettin-buckleppin-highsteppin-fucksakin-cantstopshakin-muffdivin-heavypettin-bestforgettin-wontbeletin-nameojazes-purplehazes-pipebubblin-herecomestroublin-deaddrunkdublin
The 1st DeadDrunkDublin Festival
This is the next stop on Ossian's world tour. There will be reeling, roaring and howling at Lughnasa. A huge party with live music, readings and divarsion.
Be there or be ... safe at home.
Ossian
The 1st DeadDrunkDublin Festival
This is the next stop on Ossian's world tour. There will be reeling, roaring and howling at Lughnasa. A huge party with live music, readings and divarsion.
Be there or be ... safe at home.
Ossian
What's On
Tell Tales with Courttia Newland, Maggie Gee, and Rajeev Balasubramanyam
If anybody can make it to Willesden, I think this event will be worth a visit. It's at 8 p.m. upstairs in "Studio 95" at the Willesden Library Centre, 95 High Road, Willesden, London NW10. Look out surprise international cerebralty guests, sponsored by the Willesden Herald. Admission is free.
"Tonight, in association with the Westwords Literary Project, you can hear three authors whose work appears in the just published anthology, Tell Tales Vol 1, edited by Courttia Newland. The book celebrates the short story, and that is just what our authors will be doing tonight. Featuring Rajeev Balasubramanyam, the award winning writer of In Beautiful Disguises, Courttia Newland and local author Maggie Gee. They will be joined by Brent Library Service's Black Inc. creative writing project, who will be reading a selection of short stories from their second anthology Turf. There are 8 million stories in the big city, and some of them will be told tonight, so come along and celebrate the wonderful diversity of short stories with us." Contact: Anne Mullane 020 8937 3485.
Local author Maggie Gee writes about Willesden, thinly-disguised. She has published 8 or 9 novels and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, for The White Family. (More)
Rajeev Balasubramanyam won the Betty Trask Award, and was longlisted for the Guardian award for In Beautiful Disguises. (More)
Courttia Newland is an accomplished writer, listed by British Council among Contemporary British Writers. (More)
Mona Bone-Jakon
Tell Tales with Courttia Newland, Maggie Gee, and Rajeev Balasubramanyam
If anybody can make it to Willesden, I think this event will be worth a visit. It's at 8 p.m. upstairs in "Studio 95" at the Willesden Library Centre, 95 High Road, Willesden, London NW10. Look out surprise international cerebralty guests, sponsored by the Willesden Herald. Admission is free.
"Tonight, in association with the Westwords Literary Project, you can hear three authors whose work appears in the just published anthology, Tell Tales Vol 1, edited by Courttia Newland. The book celebrates the short story, and that is just what our authors will be doing tonight. Featuring Rajeev Balasubramanyam, the award winning writer of In Beautiful Disguises, Courttia Newland and local author Maggie Gee. They will be joined by Brent Library Service's Black Inc. creative writing project, who will be reading a selection of short stories from their second anthology Turf. There are 8 million stories in the big city, and some of them will be told tonight, so come along and celebrate the wonderful diversity of short stories with us." Contact: Anne Mullane 020 8937 3485.
Local author Maggie Gee writes about Willesden, thinly-disguised. She has published 8 or 9 novels and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, for The White Family. (More)
Rajeev Balasubramanyam won the Betty Trask Award, and was longlisted for the Guardian award for In Beautiful Disguises. (More)
Courttia Newland is an accomplished writer, listed by British Council among Contemporary British Writers. (More)
Mona Bone-Jakon
Letters
I've just read the report about the large scale destruction of agricultural land [in Palestine. Ed.], unjustifiable demolition of thousands of homes and discriminatory licensing system, in the latest Amnesty magazine. Houses are often blown-up in the middle of the night, with occupants only given minutes to evacuate the building with their children, no time even to collect their belongings. ETC ETC
It occurs to me that we have expected far too much of the Israeli government. We have expected them to be more humane because of their experience of how foul and murderous governments can be. Instead we should have realised that they are no different than anybody else, no different than the Nazis were. We should only expect from the Israeli government what anyone would have expected from the Nazi government. Nothing.
Furthermore they are trading on the Holocaust. They have harnessed it like a river to hydro-electric generator, and they will not stop till they have extracted all the violent energy from it and expended it on their neighbours, and destroyed all around them. In effect what we are seeing is a slow tantrum, of colossal proportions, a slow-motion re-enactment with hidden pleasure of everything that was done against them.
Where are the United Nations now? Why invade Iraq but do nothing with Israel. Why can nobody stop the annexation and destruction of land. This is a lawless world.
They are allowed to stockpile hundreds of nuclear weapons, probably trained at population centres around the Middle East, with impunity. If some other country tries to acquire a microgram of something radioactive, the entire world jumps on them and kicks the hell out of them.
There is no truth in the Roadmap / The Peace Process - it's all crap. Israel is out to annexe as much land as they can, and they won't stop till they are forced to. They don't give a damn about Arabs, whom they treat as subhuman, or without rights.
The US is simply continuing where it started at home with its native Americans, happy to see the disappropriation of indigenous peoples in order to install their friends and clients instead.
As for the UK government, its position is beneath contempt. It has no position. They should all be kicked out at the next possible election, even if it means a Conservative government. Labour needs punishing, and it's worth suffering under the lousy Conservative spivs for four or five years, just to tell Blair clearly what we think about his treachery. If you're going to have a Conservative government, have a genuine one, not a hypocritical, mealy-mouthed, secret one.
E. L. Voynich
I've just read the report about the large scale destruction of agricultural land [in Palestine. Ed.], unjustifiable demolition of thousands of homes and discriminatory licensing system, in the latest Amnesty magazine. Houses are often blown-up in the middle of the night, with occupants only given minutes to evacuate the building with their children, no time even to collect their belongings. ETC ETC
It occurs to me that we have expected far too much of the Israeli government. We have expected them to be more humane because of their experience of how foul and murderous governments can be. Instead we should have realised that they are no different than anybody else, no different than the Nazis were. We should only expect from the Israeli government what anyone would have expected from the Nazi government. Nothing.
Furthermore they are trading on the Holocaust. They have harnessed it like a river to hydro-electric generator, and they will not stop till they have extracted all the violent energy from it and expended it on their neighbours, and destroyed all around them. In effect what we are seeing is a slow tantrum, of colossal proportions, a slow-motion re-enactment with hidden pleasure of everything that was done against them.
Where are the United Nations now? Why invade Iraq but do nothing with Israel. Why can nobody stop the annexation and destruction of land. This is a lawless world.
They are allowed to stockpile hundreds of nuclear weapons, probably trained at population centres around the Middle East, with impunity. If some other country tries to acquire a microgram of something radioactive, the entire world jumps on them and kicks the hell out of them.
There is no truth in the Roadmap / The Peace Process - it's all crap. Israel is out to annexe as much land as they can, and they won't stop till they are forced to. They don't give a damn about Arabs, whom they treat as subhuman, or without rights.
The US is simply continuing where it started at home with its native Americans, happy to see the disappropriation of indigenous peoples in order to install their friends and clients instead.
As for the UK government, its position is beneath contempt. It has no position. They should all be kicked out at the next possible election, even if it means a Conservative government. Labour needs punishing, and it's worth suffering under the lousy Conservative spivs for four or five years, just to tell Blair clearly what we think about his treachery. If you're going to have a Conservative government, have a genuine one, not a hypocritical, mealy-mouthed, secret one.
E. L. Voynich
Thursday, July 08, 2004
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
whiskey river
Rescue the Dead by David Ignatow
One of the many wonderful snippets in the whiskey river. I like the one from Leonard Cohen too. "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
Ossian
One of the many wonderful snippets in the whiskey river. I like the one from Leonard Cohen too. "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
Ossian
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Breaking News - Exclusive
Plague of flies hits Willesden today
From Willesden High Road all the way to Herald House, a swarm of giant flying ants has descended. We call for emergencyornitholigcal [nice try, Ed. Feargal] entomological teams to be sent to Willesden immediately and for a state of emergency to be declared. One of the creatures was photographed by our brave photographer before he had to run for cover.
Ed.
Via Audioblagger™
Plague of flies hits Willesden today
From Willesden High Road all the way to Herald House, a swarm of giant flying ants has descended. We call for emergency
Ed.
Via Audioblagger™
Monday, July 05, 2004
Climate change - "Far worse than previously thought"
New picture sparks alarm
Last night we showed you how the sea is freezing off the coast of Alperton. Tonight, after just 24 hours we reveal how it has been tranformed into a coral reef, with lush seaweed swaying in a turquoise lagoon.
Willesden Observatory
New picture sparks alarm
Last night we showed you how the sea is freezing off the coast of Alperton. Tonight, after just 24 hours we reveal how it has been tranformed into a coral reef, with lush seaweed swaying in a turquoise lagoon.
Willesden Observatory
Sunday, July 04, 2004
Friday, July 02, 2004
Roll up, roll up!
See the amazing vested President
It seems our exclusive picture of George Bush in underwear / vest has doubled the traffic to this site. Well if that's what you're here for, step right this way.
Reception Desk
See the amazing vested President
It seems our exclusive picture of George Bush in underwear / vest has doubled the traffic to this site. Well if that's what you're here for, step right this way.
Reception Desk
"What're you rebelling against?"
"What've you got?"
Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Marlon Brando dies aged 80
"'The only thing an actor owes to his public is not to bore them,' Marlon Brando once said. Throughout his 80 years, Brando could be enraging, enthralling, mysterious and exasperating. But Marlon Brando was never boring."
In a memo to the editor, Herald Proprietor Ed Woodward has called for "a day of international maundering."
Lempik Obit
"What've you got?"
Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Marlon Brando dies aged 80
"'The only thing an actor owes to his public is not to bore them,' Marlon Brando once said. Throughout his 80 years, Brando could be enraging, enthralling, mysterious and exasperating. But Marlon Brando was never boring."
In a memo to the editor, Herald Proprietor Ed Woodward has called for "a day of international maundering."
Lempik Obit
Pictures from Saturn
NASA - Cassini-Huygens: Close Encounter with Saturn:
"MISSION NEWS:
Fresh Cassini pictures show the majesty of Saturn's rings."
Willesden Space Centre promises even better pictures after its spaceship Zadie-1 reaches Saturn, which is expected to occur when the Moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
Willesden Observatory
NASA - Cassini-Huygens: Close Encounter with Saturn:
"MISSION NEWS:
Fresh Cassini pictures show the majesty of Saturn's rings."
Willesden Space Centre promises even better pictures after its spaceship Zadie-1 reaches Saturn, which is expected to occur when the Moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
Willesden Observatory
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
How to be British - an occasional series for Foreigners
Part 3 - Wear a powdered wig and tights
Remember to call attorneys Barristers when translating into the local patois. Britain, or more precisely the main bit of it known as England, is run by a coterie of these witch doctor-like figures, also known affectionately as "old boys." Easily recognised in their black robes, powdered wigs, tights and garters, they have something in common with Pantomime Dames, but I will save that subject for another article. A significant proportion of them these days are real women.
Barristers are a protected species held mainly in London, in a Royal Park called the Inns of Court, where their numbers are carefully managed. The process of becoming a barrister involves "eating a number of dinners" at the Inns. Whether that is a euphemism or a literal procedure, I dread to think. Some cursory acquaintance with legal precedent is expected as a matter of good form, but the chief attribute required is an olympian ability to make the implausible sound likely. In their spare time, barristers also run the nominal government of Britain from the nearby Palaces of Westminster.**
Within the Inns of Court, there are miles of ancient squares, buildings and alleys stretching from Temple near the Thames Embankment all the way to Grays Inn Road, a mile or so to the north. These cobbled lanes and squares are full of the ghosts of Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Dickens and I can't think of anyone else. --Oh yes, myriad newly poor litigants.
I don't think many people know what a wonderful little world is here, which has been around for a very long time, and judging by the stone construction of the buildings and alleys, will be for a very long time yet. So here are some pictures by London-based photographer Onion Mbeke, to give you some idea of the place.
One of the delights is this fountain in Fountain Court near Temple. It is shaded by two ancient mulberry trees, now almost horizontal and both propped. You can see the prop holding up one of them in this picture.
Also on view is a marvellous open-air exhibition of hundreds of expensive German cars, as well as a few Range Rovers, Jaguars, Bentleys and the odd Aston Martin.
Psmedley
*Dozens of you have written to ask me what the purpose of this series is. It was originally intended as a handy guide to US authors who may have to visit the island of Britain to bring the light of literature back from across the Atlantic to where it has partially died out in "the ould sod." As well as sensible sexual hygiene practices, it is also a good idea to know a bit about the natives, their likes and dislikes. Don't be fooled by his inoffensive demeanour, Tommy is not a man you would want to have as an enemy. P.
**Known to all London taxi drivers as the Palace of Varieties. P.
Zoz
Remember to call attorneys Barristers when translating into the local patois. Britain, or more precisely the main bit of it known as England, is run by a coterie of these witch doctor-like figures, also known affectionately as "old boys." Easily recognised in their black robes, powdered wigs, tights and garters, they have something in common with Pantomime Dames, but I will save that subject for another article. A significant proportion of them these days are real women.
Barristers are a protected species held mainly in London, in a Royal Park called the Inns of Court, where their numbers are carefully managed. The process of becoming a barrister involves "eating a number of dinners" at the Inns. Whether that is a euphemism or a literal procedure, I dread to think. Some cursory acquaintance with legal precedent is expected as a matter of good form, but the chief attribute required is an olympian ability to make the implausible sound likely. In their spare time, barristers also run the nominal government of Britain from the nearby Palaces of Westminster.**
Within the Inns of Court, there are miles of ancient squares, buildings and alleys stretching from Temple near the Thames Embankment all the way to Grays Inn Road, a mile or so to the north. These cobbled lanes and squares are full of the ghosts of Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Dickens and I can't think of anyone else. --Oh yes, myriad newly poor litigants.
I don't think many people know what a wonderful little world is here, which has been around for a very long time, and judging by the stone construction of the buildings and alleys, will be for a very long time yet. So here are some pictures by London-based photographer Onion Mbeke, to give you some idea of the place.
One of the delights is this fountain in Fountain Court near Temple. It is shaded by two ancient mulberry trees, now almost horizontal and both propped. You can see the prop holding up one of them in this picture.
Also on view is a marvellous open-air exhibition of hundreds of expensive German cars, as well as a few Range Rovers, Jaguars, Bentleys and the odd Aston Martin.
Psmedley
*Dozens of you have written to ask me what the purpose of this series is. It was originally intended as a handy guide to US authors who may have to visit the island of Britain to bring the light of literature back from across the Atlantic to where it has partially died out in "the ould sod." As well as sensible sexual hygiene practices, it is also a good idea to know a bit about the natives, their likes and dislikes. Don't be fooled by his inoffensive demeanour, Tommy is not a man you would want to have as an enemy. P.
**Known to all London taxi drivers as the Palace of Varieties. P.
Zoz
How to be British - an occasional series for Foreigners
Part 2 - the hysterical
Decide your habiliment of hilarity early and swathe yourself in it on all social occasions. Should your mien gravitate towards the pompous, you may choose something from the house of John Cleese. As an opening gambit with a demoiselle at a soiree, refer to an unrelated item in the manner of the Dead Parrot Sketch. Faced with a wilted lettuce leaf, a Briton from the school of Cleese will invariably declare, "This is an ex-legume, it is sadly etiolated, in short it is dead." You will not be out-of-place afterwards, when sufficient chardonnay has been quaffed, goosestepping around mein host's hallway and bellowing, "Don't mention the war." For a more contemporary effect, you can be David Brent from The Office, the entire Fast Show - ooh suits you - or if you have the talent for mimicry that you think you have, big up for Ali G in da house. As a connoisseur of all things purely British, I like to affect a modest air of Alan Bennett, myself. Choose your comedy well, laugh like a drain at your own jokes, and remember you won first prize in the tombola of talent when you were born a British comedian.
Psmedley
Old Comments:
John @ 9:39AM 2004-09-01
Or you may encounter the pedant who will quote "Suit you, sir". My Python and Pete'n'Dud quoting abilities are a bit sad, but at least i didn't learn morality from Star Trek TNG like some of these young foreigners.
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Karlo @ 7:21PM 2004-10-11
In spite of my supererogatory efforts to develop the British knack for hilarity, I just can't quite get the swing of it. Are you sure you are just qauffing chardonnay lads? It does smell, how shall I say it, a bit "peatty" in here...
email website
Zoz
Decide your habiliment of hilarity early and swathe yourself in it on all social occasions. Should your mien gravitate towards the pompous, you may choose something from the house of John Cleese. As an opening gambit with a demoiselle at a soiree, refer to an unrelated item in the manner of the Dead Parrot Sketch. Faced with a wilted lettuce leaf, a Briton from the school of Cleese will invariably declare, "This is an ex-legume, it is sadly etiolated, in short it is dead." You will not be out-of-place afterwards, when sufficient chardonnay has been quaffed, goosestepping around mein host's hallway and bellowing, "Don't mention the war." For a more contemporary effect, you can be David Brent from The Office, the entire Fast Show - ooh suits you - or if you have the talent for mimicry that you think you have, big up for Ali G in da house. As a connoisseur of all things purely British, I like to affect a modest air of Alan Bennett, myself. Choose your comedy well, laugh like a drain at your own jokes, and remember you won first prize in the tombola of talent when you were born a British comedian.
Psmedley
Old Comments:
John @ 9:39AM 2004-09-01
Or you may encounter the pedant who will quote "Suit you, sir". My Python and Pete'n'Dud quoting abilities are a bit sad, but at least i didn't learn morality from Star Trek TNG like some of these young foreigners.
email website
Karlo @ 7:21PM 2004-10-11
In spite of my supererogatory efforts to develop the British knack for hilarity, I just can't quite get the swing of it. Are you sure you are just qauffing chardonnay lads? It does smell, how shall I say it, a bit "peatty" in here...
email website
Zoz
How to be British - an occasional series for Foreigners
Part 1 - the impassive
Try to get to know a little bit of our culture and you'll find things will go better on your trip. Tone down your voice by a few decibels when you infest our shores, and don't argue with hotel staff. Never wear check, plaid or plastic macs. Remember we Brits are jaded, blasé, and not in the least interested in petty annoyances, so don't become one. If the service in your hotel is bad, simply accept that you have no savoir faire, and made a bad choice. We have a saying here, which you would do well to memorise, and that is "Shite occurs."
Psmedley
Zoz
Try to get to know a little bit of our culture and you'll find things will go better on your trip. Tone down your voice by a few decibels when you infest our shores, and don't argue with hotel staff. Never wear check, plaid or plastic macs. Remember we Brits are jaded, blasé, and not in the least interested in petty annoyances, so don't become one. If the service in your hotel is bad, simply accept that you have no savoir faire, and made a bad choice. We have a saying here, which you would do well to memorise, and that is "Shite occurs."
Psmedley
Zoz
Saturday, June 26, 2004
George Bush snapped in scanties in Irish Castle
Herald Exclusive - the picture they tried to ban
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bush filmed in underwear:
"When the US president arranged a visit to Ireland in an election year he wanted to make sure the folks back home could see him - but not dressed in a vest. "
For your edification, in spite of warnings from the little-known Irish President (who has to show her ID to her own sentrymen to get into the state residence) we bring you this picture of Bush cavorting in underwear, at Dromoland Castle last night.
Mary Whitehouse
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bush filmed in underwear:
"When the US president arranged a visit to Ireland in an election year he wanted to make sure the folks back home could see him - but not dressed in a vest. "
For your edification, in spite of warnings from the little-known Irish President (who has to show her ID to her own sentrymen to get into the state residence) we bring you this picture of Bush cavorting in underwear, at Dromoland Castle last night.
Mary Whitehouse
Friday, June 25, 2004
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Hooray!
Ponce gored by bull
"Ponce was preparing to finish off the animal at a bullfight in Alicante when the incident occurred. The bull tossed him into the air, then trampled him as he covered his head with his hands."
Good News Desk
Ponce gored by bull
"Ponce was preparing to finish off the animal at a bullfight in Alicante when the incident occurred. The bull tossed him into the air, then trampled him as he covered his head with his hands."
Good News Desk
Fine Art - Guildhall Graduate Show
This installation of writing on masking tape by Craig Moran* was one of the most original exhibits in the London Metropolitan Sir John Cass Fine Art Department week-long graduate show. I attended the preview on Tuesday night. The exhibition is arranged over several floors covering almost the whole of the old Guildhall University building opposite Aldgate East tube station, from the foyer inwards and upwards. The artists show a diversity and mastery of media and styles, inventiveness and industry. Many influences are discernible, though being an art ignoramus, I'm not sure who they are attributable to. In some cases the artists have provided visitors with images and experiences that will linger in the mind afterwards. There is plenty of fun to be had, and every sort of medium and technology you could wish for. A visitor could spend a rewarding few hours browsing here and collecting the many stylish calling cards and catalogues on offer.
*I declare an interest - he's my son.
Ossian
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
What goes around, comes around
Iran state TV shows British troops being marched blindfold
"TEHRAN : Iranian state television showed new images of eight British troops, this time being marched blindfold on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab waterway where they were detained on Monday."
Israelis hood and plasticuff hundreds at a time in Palestine, the Americans and Brits hood and cuff and abuse suspects in Iraq, and now it should come as no surprise to see British captives being given similar treatment.
This is what happens when the fantasy of Forrest Gump turns into the nightmare of Chucky the demon doll. A stacked Supreme Court appoints Forrest Gump's evil twin. A British quisling prostrates himself in Texas, down on El Rancho Grande. Thousands are exploded, massacred, rounded-up, tortured, shot, burned, mutilated, sexually abused, the works - the "Go Large" option. Pictures of booted troops kicking in flimsy doors where people leave their shoes outside, shivering detainees dehumanised with sacks over their heads, pushed and shoved and worse, screaming women and children...
...and now. Hey! They put blindfolds on our soldiers! Axis of Evil! Axis of Evil!
Let's get rid of these stupid leaders. At least Michael Howard is intelligent. Gordon Brown is intelligent. Enough with these two dolts, Bush and Blair. Are we going to follow them like lemmings into a ravine? Stop this century now, and start over.
Ed.
Iran state TV shows British troops being marched blindfold
"TEHRAN : Iranian state television showed new images of eight British troops, this time being marched blindfold on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab waterway where they were detained on Monday."
Israelis hood and plasticuff hundreds at a time in Palestine, the Americans and Brits hood and cuff and abuse suspects in Iraq, and now it should come as no surprise to see British captives being given similar treatment.
This is what happens when the fantasy of Forrest Gump turns into the nightmare of Chucky the demon doll. A stacked Supreme Court appoints Forrest Gump's evil twin. A British quisling prostrates himself in Texas, down on El Rancho Grande. Thousands are exploded, massacred, rounded-up, tortured, shot, burned, mutilated, sexually abused, the works - the "Go Large" option. Pictures of booted troops kicking in flimsy doors where people leave their shoes outside, shivering detainees dehumanised with sacks over their heads, pushed and shoved and worse, screaming women and children...
...and now. Hey! They put blindfolds on our soldiers! Axis of Evil! Axis of Evil!
Let's get rid of these stupid leaders. At least Michael Howard is intelligent. Gordon Brown is intelligent. Enough with these two dolts, Bush and Blair. Are we going to follow them like lemmings into a ravine? Stop this century now, and start over.
Ed.
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