“Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the head of Catholics in England and Wales … was supported by the Church of England and the Muslim Council of Britain. It was a formidable coalition. But it failed … Now the Cardinal accuses ministers of trying to impose a ‘new morality’ in Britain. If this new morality means it will [...]

“A German court has issued arrest warrants for 13 people, thought to be CIA agents, suspected of kidnapping a man mistaken for a terrorist … The case of Mr al-Masri is the best known of several individual allegations against the CIA, which is accused by human rights campaigners of secretly ferrying hundreds of terrorism suspects [...]

“By the time most presidents leave the White House, they have already chosen the site that will be a repository of their papers for future scholars as well as a museum where they can exert control over how they are seen in years to come. Those facilities are turned over to government administrators. But Mr [...]

From BoingBoing, here.

“Today’s ‘great political divide’ is a phoney war, in which both sides are given to fearmongering, conspiracy-invention and a petty and pernicious authoritarianism. The Islamo-clash does nothing to clarify the challenges facing humanity today, and a lot to stultify genuine and honest political debate.”
Spiked has an interesting article on “Islamofatigue” here.

From bLaugh, here.

From Explosm, here.

“Windows Vista lands in stores Tuesday, more than five years after its predecessor Windows XP debuted. With that much time for Microsoft to rewrite its operating system, you might expect it to be a sharp break from the Windows we’ve known … It isn’t.”
All the reports seem to suggest that Vista is little more than [...]

“…the war against terrorism has not yet been much of a war at all, let alone a war to end all wars. It is a messy, difficult, long-term struggle against exceptionally dangerous criminals who actually like nothing better than being put on the same level of historical importance as Hitler - can you imagine a [...]

Reproduced by permission of Jessica from the Indexed blog, here.