The Sunday Telegraph has an article written both by Alan Johnson and David Miliband. They write the article in a bid to try and convince those who will listen that they do everything possible to make sure the country does not collude in torture and human rights abuses. Oh, well, now they've said that in a newspaper article we will ignore the evidence that keeps coming out and the report from the JCHR. Of course we will. Especially when they add the caveat about 'but there are tough choices'. Really? Doesn't seem like a tough choice to us. To kick out a wicked and sinister New Labour Government or vote for another five years of civil liberties abuses at home, to experience a further five years growth in the surveillance state, to let authoritarian and totalitarian New Labour MPs build yet more infrastructure with which to repress the people... or to kick their disgusting backsides out of office never to trouble the good people of Britain ever again. Oh, and as for torture? Not in our name.
And if we do not believe Labour's protestations of innocence on torture, then we're joined in good company... by the Foreign Affairs Committee. The Independent on Sunday says that the FAC are publishing a report demanding that ministers PROVE that they've not been guilty of collusion in torture.
In the Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens asserts that the British police have become the uniformed wing of New Labour. Well, he's only saying what a vast number of the rest of us are thinking. Thinking, not saying. We're all uncertain as to whether New Labour actually brought in thought crime. They seem to have legislated for everything else. Meanwhile, the newspaper gives another warning on the 'swine flu' vaccine and warns parents that it won't even have been tested on children when it is given to all eleven million children in British schools.
The Observer has a story that we've been aware of via the internet but we've said nothing on it until it hits a British paper. There's a great big row in the US over Obama's healthcare plans. Sarah Palin has now declared the plans as akin to putting her children in front of an 'evil death panel' - apparently. There are protests - very vocal protests - which are growing all the time by all accounts. Where we do not agree with The Observer is that this is a Republican strategy protest; a partisan political issue. We wouldn't normally link to Alex Jones in a review of the mainstream media, but watch the video clips that are freely available on his site and decide for yourself what is going on in the US. This blog author doesn't live there. This blog author has no opinion on the debate. But we are capable of watching a YouTube clip on a pro-free speech website. And those video clips strongly support the line that people of all political hues are really rather unhappy over the matter.
Meanwhile, back on domestic policy, the Sunday Express claims that there are secret plans to 'privatise' the National Health Service. Elsewhere, they report on Tory plans to let us all look at our Google or Microsoft-hosted health records online. Which is going to be really great when we find our computers riddled with spyware...
The Sunday Times is reporting that British Universities are turning down British students for courses... whilst welcoming international students - because they can make them pay more for the same courses. Quite scandalous, in our opinion, and if it's true then we should write to our politicians and say 'fine, if that's what they want to do, but the Universities concerned should not be getting any British taxpayer's money then'. Strange story. If the BNP had said it, we wouldn't have believed them, but there you go - it's in the Sunday Times. Shocking.
Meanwhile, this blog's 'rebranding' of Mandelson as the far more appropriate Voldemort (which we first used way back in May) is catching on - Fraser Nelson in the News of the World is using the same alternative name today. If they use 'Gormless Buffoon' and 'Mini-Brained' next week, they do so with our blessing...
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