Jon Snow
Lord's expenses: the flight to redaction
Jon Snow blogs on the findings that Lord’s expenses are not receipted.
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War costs in grief and reputation
The mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan attacks Gordon Brown for equipment shortages. Jon Snow blogs on the messy business of war for politicians.
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Gary Gibbon
Legg letters: Speaker couldn’t stop the ‘Hutton effect’
Ann Widdecombe was having a bit of a go at the Speaker, John Bercow, yesterday for rolling over and not standing up for MPs’ rights against Sir ThomasLegg. I’m told that Speaker Bercow twice tried to persuade Sir Thomas to drop the retrospective elements, constructing caps for spending on gardening and cleaning second homes when…
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Jon Snow
Behind the Nobel Peace Prize
I awaken to the radio telling me that 15 years ago today, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The thought throws Barack Obama’s award last week into sharp relief. The more I think of it, the more I wonder why, wakened early to be told about his win,…
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Australia's red dawn – a warning to all?
We were all spooked by it – the idea of a nuclear holocaust that would obliterate the world. As boys we talked about it a lot, at no time more so than after reading Nevil Shute’s ‘On the Beach’. Set in Australia this was apocalyptic and desperately human account of the end of the planet.…
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In the footsteps of President Zelaya
The return to Honduras of the country’s deposed president, Manuel Zelaya, reminds Jon Snow of his own earlier struggle through the Honduran hinterland.
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Mary Travers and the death of revolution
Alas, poor Mary, I did not know her well. She is dead of cancer at 72. But her influence and that of Peter, Paul and herself on we sixties, flower power, bead-strewn, long-haired, Afghan-coated creatures, was huge.
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An insight into young Ireland at the Electric Picnic
Electric Picnic. It might better be termed the eclectic picnic – a totally amazing event out beyond the verdant turf of the golf courses and the famous Curragh race course in the heart of Ireland. Ostensibly a folk and rock-fest starring everyone from Brian Wilson to Florence and the Machine, the Picnic proved much more…
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My night in the Cabinet war rooms
Seventy years ago today at 11am in the morning, prime minister Neville Chamberlain told the nation that Britain was at war with Germany. Last night I walked through the rainswept darkened streets in Whitehall to the corner of the Treasury building overlooking a very bedraggled St James’s Park.
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Tiling tips from Nasa
I’m looking for someone to tile my bathroom; do you think I could get NASA to do the job? I’m standing underneath the belly of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the Orbiter Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The urge to reach up and touch the hundreds of heat-streaked tiles on the…
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Is the Afghan war on terror coming to an end?
Heat. It’s not something, that, if you live in Bangkok, you thought you would still be susceptible to. Bangkok’s sticky, like a constant reminder of how hectic and dense the city is – it’s brimming humanity. But out here, in Jalalabad, where we are en route to Kunar, near Afghanistan’s north-eastern border with Pakistan, the…
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Harrowing stories of Iranian protesters
For weeks we’ve been trying to find people who have fled Iran after being arrested or injured in the demonstrations. It’s been difficult – not because such people do not exist, but because they’re all so scared. Those who have come to Europe know that if they speak out, their relatives back home are likely…
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End of term and more
Bye Bye to my member, and a word to Chris, Joe10 and Ken on yesterday’s class war blog. That’s it, they’ve gone! Eighty two days now before we see another MP in the House of Commons chamber on October 12th. And in what a parlous state they seem to be leaving British politics. Tomorrow, The…
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My bet would be on Australia
For what it is worth, and it is worth very little, I think the Aussies are going to win the Lords test today. They will get the remaining 200 runs with one wicket to spare, and I say this after watching them for the two hours before bad light stopped play last night and watching most…