Jueves, 18 de mayo de 2006 (Continuación)

InternacionalTerrorismo InternacionalEuropaUnión Europea, ,

By Timothy Garton Ash (THE GUARDIAN, 18/05/06):

There's a photograph that has haunted me for months. I have it posted on my computer screen as I write. Taken by a CCTV camera at 09:00:13 on Thursday July 7 2005, it shows a stocky, dark-haired young man in a light-blue, open-necked shirt emerging from Boots the chemists at King's Cross station. He is carrying a rucksack on his back. Three-quarters of an hour later, 18-year-old Hasib Hussain blew himself up on a No 30 bus, killing 13 other people and injuring 110. The rucksack carried the bomb. The question I've kept asking myself is: what do you go into Boots to buy when you know you're going to blow yourself to smithereens a few minutes later?…  Seguir leyendo »

ReflexionesDemocracia

By Norman Geras (THE TIMES, 18/05/06):

WRITING IN this newspaper two weeks ago, Daniel Finkelstein gave the Euston Manifesto (PDF) — a document calling for a progressive realignment and which I had a large part in drafting — a mixed review. “Really very good,” he said. “I agree with its sentiments; I think it well written and timely.”

But he also described it as “a gigantic waste of time and energy”. How so? Because, even though it challenges ideas widely held on the Left, the aim of those who produced it is “to save the Left from itself” and that isn’t worth the bother.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoAmérica

By Anatole Kaletsky (THE TIMES, 18/02/06):

WHAT’S RATTLING the financial markets? The US dollar appears to be collapsing, the gold price has soared to its highest levels since the great inflation of the 1980s and stockmarkets all over the world are in a swoon.

For once, this question is fairly easy to answer. Two things are worrying investors and both are “made in America”. But no, they are not the dreaded “twin deficits” — the $800 billion US trade deficit and the $600 billion government deficit. America’s national debt is smaller, relative to national income, than any other leading economy’s apart from Britain, so government borrowing has nothing to do with the weakness of the dollar.…  Seguir leyendo »

ReflexionesSocial,

By Camilla Cavendish (THE TIMES, 18/05/06):

IMAGINE A COUNTRY where parents accused of child abuse are assumed guilty unless proven innocent. Where secret courts need no criminal conviction to remove their children, only the word of a medical expert, and rarely let parents call their own experts in defence. Where even parents who are vindicated on appeal cannot see their children again, because they have been adopted.

And where the “welfare of the child” is used to gag them from discussing the case ever after. I live in that country.

In that country, a mother who has had her three children taken away broke the gagging order on BBC One on Monday night.…  Seguir leyendo »