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More photos from Iraq

While rum­ma­ging through one of my draw­ers today I came across a small memory card for the digital cam­era I took to Iraq in 2003, and it held pho­tos that I’d for­got­ten I had.

They murder while we accidently kill

I’ve lost count of the num­ber of times I’ve run into right-wingers who seem to have an unwaver­ing belief that the crimes of their foes are be loudly pro­claimed and harshly pun­ished while their own crimes are to be wholly jus­ti­fied in the pur­suit of their ideo­logy. The ends jus­ti­fies the means apparently.

Quotations

A couple of people now have asked me to post the quotes that cur­rently appear at ran­dom in the top right hand corner of my blog, so here they are in ran­dom order. I’ll add new ones at the top. Through­out the world, on any given day, a man, a woman or child is likely to…

Back in London

So much for hav­ing wads of time to blog, I’m back in Lon­don now. Tak­ing a hol­i­day in NZ doesn’t involve a whole lot of time indoors. For­tu­nately I man­aged to do some things I’ve wanted to do since I was a teen: walked around Lake Waikare­moana with my father and brother, sailed through Milford…

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