The Flatpack festival properly launches this evening (Wednesday) with a Curzonora extravaganza at the Town Hall. I’ll let the programme explain: “Birmingham, 1901. Electric trams are making their debut on the Bristol Road, councillors are plotting to bring water all the way from Wales, a...

By Ron aka WayTooFurious With all the recent talk about the new Fast and Furious movie , I have been thinking about my favourite movies that have great car moments. Here's my top five—these may not be the end-all-be-all of automotive cinema, but they're the moments that stand out for me: 1. Bullit...

By Cernig Dick Cheney is in Iraq and has announced that he has a gut feeling that the Iraqi invasion and occupation has been a "successful endevour" which was "well worth the effort". "I was last in Baghdad 10 months ago and I sense that, as a result of the progress that has been made since then, ph...

Posted By Cernig The latest ABC/BBC poll from Iraq is out and ABC are doing sterling work as pro-occupation stenographers by insisting that the only relevant time period to be compared is from the height of violence last Summer until now . Fifty-five percent of Iraqis say things in their own lives a...

Posted By Cernig I see John McCain is indulging in another PR trip to Iraq , unannounced and under heavy security, just a few days before the five-year anniversary of the invasion . He says it isn't a campaign trip and isn't holding media events - but you can't accomplish dick in a 24 hour fly-by. Y...

Posted By Cernig Just over a week ago, the Seton Hall Law’s Center for Policy and Research published a report that said military records and statements showed over 24,000 tapes had been made of interrogations carried out at Guantánamo Bay. The same day, a Washington Post article following up on t...

Posted By Cernig I personally believe that the six terror suspects to be tried before a military commision are guilty of their alleged crimes . But that they are guilty and will be found guilty doesn't matter any more. I also personally believe, for instance, that Bush, Cheney and others are guilty ...

Posted By Cernig It being Super-Tuesday, Sy Hersh's latest article on what exactly the Israelis bombed in the Syrian desert last September is likely to be mostly overlooked. Which is a great pity because it's the most in-depth investigation I've seen of what went on and why. It even has - gasp - nam...

Despite my recent beefs about Asda I found myself there again yesterday, not for the weekly shop but to browse the CD Isle, they have quite a good selection and how wrong can you get with things like pre-packed, made somewhere else type goods? In the car-park I overheard two battle worn vets of powe...