Before we all get passionately indignant about our Royal Marines being taken captive by the Iranians, I'd recommend a look at what Craig Murray has to say on the matter here. Particularly interesting:

'Before the spin doctors could get to him, Commodore Lambert said:

"There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that they were in Iraqi territorial waters. Equally, the Iranians may well claim that they were in their territorial waters. The extent and definition of territorial waters in this part of the world is very complicated".'

Just as with Iraq, Bush and Blair have decided they want a war with Iran and are now looking for ways (remember WMD?) to sell it to the public.

Anybody else watch Comic Relief tonight? Anybody else bloody scared by what a good actor Tony Blair is?

I'm Mr Angry today:

"Students at St Paul's Catholic College in Burgess Hill in Sussex have been told not to participate in Red Nose Day because some of the money raised might be used to support charities that supply contraception or recommend abortion – activities that conflict with the school's so-called "Catholic ethos"."

source: www.secularism.org.uk

The last word on Mohammed Khalid's "confession".

"Mohammed Sheikh Khalid has now, voluntarily and of his own free will, admitted he masterminded every significant event from the Norman Invasion through the bubonic plague, fall of Constantinople, and Great Fire of London, to the Battle of Little Big Horn, assassination of JFK and the Oklahoma bombing..."

It says here that if I post a picture on my blog then it also appears on my Picasaweb album.

Money-saving skinflint tip-of-the-day:

If you have a breadmaker, there is absolutely no discernible difference between white bread made with "very strong breadmaking flour" at around 93p per bag, and that made with the blue-and-white stripy stuff, at 31p per bag.