Extraordinary rendition update
The trail goes dead in Poland?

Scottish Blogging Roundup

ChipPin’ away at fraud
Up to 40 minutes after any Chip & PIN card transaction, the retailer may access your confidential details. Including your PIN number. Read this now.

Gotta have faith?
AC Grayling on misunderstanding atheism

Taxing or trading?
Finding the best way to control carbon

Sandra Bell is a name I keep hearing. She’s seemingly an independent commentator, a security rent-a-quote, who so far this week has been mostly puffing the NuLab line for a prime-time audience. I guess this isn’t exactly news, given she formerly worked for QinetiQ, a company very much part of Blair’s corporate state. A company whose thoughts on ID cards, for example, are predictable and well documented.
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Gay pride in Israel and Palestine
Liberating Jerusalem?

Nicaragua: “They did everything but threaten to invade”
The dirty war continues

Carnival of the Capitalists

Saddam: a tribute
Political parody par excellence. Or is it?