"Speaking in his Sedgefield constituency, [Tony Blair] suggested that international law should be reformed in light of a security threat that was 'of a different nature from anything the world has faced before'. "

Is this another way of saying "It was illegal, we knew it was illegal, we just didn't think international law was sufficient, so we went and did it anyway"...?

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | 'If we ignore threats, we are in mortal danger'

In the Guardian last week;

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

Err... I wish I had some clever quip to make light of this, but I can't think of one. 20 years to Escape from LA? I might think GW is bonkers to ignore climate change, but I never once considered that the postman might have gills within 2 decades...

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In Wired magazine today

Aboriginal Indians and people from India are different. That's what a contender for the leadership of Canada's opposition Conservative Party learned after his office sent a letter to a native group congratulating it on a holiday celebrating India's independence from Britain. Wrong Indians. The mistake prompted a stinging rebuke from the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centers president: 'This is 2004, Mr. Harper, not 1492 ... the last time a man got lost looking for India.' Harper apologized, blaming student interns who compiled a database of Indo-Canadian and other groups as part of an outreach program and got this one wrong.

Oh dear, and I thought Canadians were such a polite sensitive lot. Of cuorse it was someone else's fault, though. That bloody Vasco Da Gamma.