The Wardman Wire

To mention it once again, I continue - since the hyperlinks which they broke when they redesigned their website continue to be broken, and I have received no response to requests for them to sort it out. I have added this paragraph to the Daily Roundup template.

Here is today’s roundup of stories.

Comment

Max Hastings (Comment is Free) - The Iraq experience has laid bare the limits of raw military power
The next US president must reject the juvenile Bush vision, reach out to Iran and seek justice for the Palestinian people

AC Grayling (Comment is Free) - Precious liberty
As civil liberties come under ever greater pressure, it is time we exposed the old lie that says the innocent have nothing to fear

News

BBC (BBC)

- Devolved policing crucial - Bush
President George Bush has stressed the importance of devolution of policing for Northern Ireland.

BBC (BBC) - Over 108,000 in detention in UK
More than 108,000 people are being held in detention in Britain, amounting to two in every 1,000, a survey suggests.

BBC (BBC) - Extent of secret links between government and IRA revealed
The full extent of a secret 20-year back channel between the British government and the IRA is revealed today by Tony Blair’s former chief of staff, who declares that the peace process might never have been possible without the link.

Economist (Economist) - Adam Smith - The economist’s house is on the (free) market
IN MOST countries it would have been marked by a fanfare of press releases and a long roll of fund-raising drums. Not in Scotland. This week Edinburgh’s city council put on the market the house where Adam Smith spent his last 12 years, from 1778 until 1790. Advertisements in the property sections of local newspapers seek offers in excess of £700,000 ($1.4m) for a 17th-century house of historical interest, but fail to point out its connection with the father of modern economics.

Telegraph (Telegraph) - Bryony Gordon
Toytown was left reeling at the weekend when Mr Plod announced to a packed press conference that he was investigating resident fox Basil Brush for making racist slurs against Rosie and Jim, the famous ragdoll travellers.

Alex Pell (Times Online) - Hey, Facebook, just let go of me
Joining the networking site is easy but closing down your potentially embarrassing account is not

Times (Times Online) - IOC finds no reason to hide pollution risks
Organising body says that tests have revealed that air quality will be good enough to compete in.

Scotland

BBC (BBC) - Row over ambulance complaint rise
The Scottish Ambulance Service has defended its performance after figures showed that the number of complaints had more than doubled in three years.

Christopher Martin-Jenkins (Times Online) - Ryan Sidebottom fulfilling promise for England
Six years shalt thou labour and on the seventh have thy reward. Thus might one paraphrase a familiar biblical text to summarise the rise, fall and rise again of Ryan Sidebottom, the left-arm fast bowler with the Charles II curls who has become England’s key to success in New Zealand.

Wales

BBC (BBC) - Assembly building success story
The Welsh Assembly’s new home was built broadly on time, on budget, and reached the highest environmental standards, a financial watchdog has concluded.

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