Terrorism Arrests at Sellafield
There have been arrests under the Terrorism Act at Sellafield.
I have been over nuclear facilities in both the UK and the United States and am pretty sure, that untrained people without the right technical background could learn anything of use, that they couldn’t get from something like Wikipedia or Google. They certainly wouldn’t get inside.
In fact all they’ve done is draw attention to themselves and get arrested.
I’d do them for wasting Police time.
Always Listen to the Taxi Drivers
Taxi drivers are usually those who know most about what is going on, although it does often come over with a certain slant.
So should we take too seriously, an interview I heard on the BBC, where a reporter talked to taxi drivers in Bradford? To a man, they said the United States was the terrorist.
America’s Gleeful Vengeance
Osama Bin Laden was a truly evil man to many, or was he just someone who saw an opportunity to make a name for himself and just took it in a very evil way.
In some ways it is a pity he is dead, as he should be in a Court of Law on trial for his crimes. And when after due process, if the verdict was guilty, he should have not been given a death sentence.
We have had enough martyrs that have inspired evil movements in history. They’ve inspired some good ones too, but I can’t see this happening in Bin Laden’s case.
At least though Osama bin Laden is dead and we won’t get the sort of speculation that we did after the Second World War about whether the truly evil Hitler was really dead.
Incidentally, I have read somewhere that Hitler’s biggest fear was that he would be captured and exhibited in somewhere like a zoo. He would have been tried at Nuremburg and if found guilty would have been executed. Judging by the way we have dealt with the various African, Croatian and Serbian war criminals, who have been found guilty at The Hague, we have moved on in the last sixty or so years.
But has America, where the death penalty is still a major part of the punishment system, as it is in Iran, China and North Korea?
I am also rather worried about the almost gleeful celebrations in the United States. This is sending the wrong message around the world and in my view it is rather disrespectful to all of the good people killed in the attack on September 11th, 2001 and all the other attacks inspired by Bin Laden. I know we celebrated in a similar way after the Second World War, but that was only after the war against Germany and Japan had been brought to a conclusion. We have not completely defeated the terrorists.
It will be interesting to see how Muslim groups and people around the world react to Bin Laden’s death.
I will be holding my breath, but hoping that the good Muslims who just want to get on with their lives in a peaceful manner have more effect, than those who want to carry on Bin Laden’s evil ideology.
As Rachel Harvey has just put it on the BBC, “Bin Laden may be dead, but his ideas are not.”
Farewell – Sir Henry Cooper
Sir Henry Cooper was a gentleman in a sport that doesn’t have too many. Although one wonders if recent British boxers have taken their lead from the way Our Enry behaved.
I saw him once, as he had been asked to open a new shop opposite our offices in Ipswich. He was just strolling down the street confidently towards the shop, people were calling and talking to him in a friendly way and he was signing autographs and chatting to the crowd like only real celebrities do.
He’ll be sadly missed by all.
Farewell to Ted Lowe
Here was a commentator, who through his knowledge of the sport and the power of his words, gave a lot of pleasure to many.
Sadly, there are few if any of his ilk left.
The World Has Problems, So What Does the Pope Do?
This sort of thing is what really bothers me about organised religion. Instead of taking a moral lead against dictators, poverty, bad health and the problems caused by lack of contraception, the Pope spends millions on a vanity ceremony.
He also invites Robert Mugabe.
The man is a disgrace! In fact both of them are a disgrace and a complete irrelevance.
Will Aston Martin Benefit from the Royal Wedding?
To many the iconic picture of the royal wedding is William and Catherine driving away afterwards in his father’s 1969 Aston Martin.
Aston Martin must be laughing their socks off!
The Real Losers From the Delayed Honeymoon
The decision of the royal newly weds to delay their honeymoon is a really intelligent one.
It will allow all the fuss to die down and they can enjoy a few days of rest and recuperation on Anglesey, if they want to. I suspect too, that the good people of Ynys Mon, will put their own protective cordon around the couple to make sure the only interesting pictures the paparazzi get are of sheep. I know from experience of Suffolk, that when outsiders start to pry and invade privacy, they are given very short shift.
I suspect though that the tabloids and the celebrity magazines, have spent a fortune to spot where the couple are going. And it has got them precisely nothing, except a large bill. When the couple finally sneak off, the gutter press will hopefully be caught napping again.
I suspect they may have another cunning plan up their sleeves.
Good for them!
Royal Wedding Wins at Fontwell
It just had to happen didn’t it!
The horse, Royal Wedding won at Fontwell at 4.1, yesterday.
Who’d Have Thought It?
I’ve just been to get the paper and it was a bit of a surprise to see that the largest pile of newspapers in the shop was for the Guardian.
I thought that all of that was below them!
The Anonymous Widower 