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Attacks In Mumbai Raise Disturbing Questions That Need To Be Answered. Soon

Now that the terrorists, who had brought death and destruction to Mumbai, the leading financial centre in India, are wiped out or captured by the security forces, it is time for reflection. You may say that it is too early to learn from the lessons of Mumbai and that the terrible tragedy is still too vivid in people’s imagination: blood stains have not been wiped off the street payments and carpets in hotels and the collective shock has not yet passed.I would agree with you on that. But I am not asking you to call on the people of Mumbai and the whole of India to look calmly at what has happened and start drawing conclusions. I’m suggesting that we, as outsiders, should analyse what has occurred and try to understand what it could all mean. First of all, we should mourn the loss... 

Will China’s Methods Of Spreading Influence Abroad Come Back To Haunt It?

Martin McCauley writes:  The world is involved in a new game of brinkmanship. It is called ‘Taming China’ and it is all about one thing: how to stop the inexorable rise of China? Resorting to pressure or using military force against China is unthinkable. So a ‘gentle’ approach is needed by projecting influence that would not anger the Asian giant. The more China is involved in international organisations, for example, the less likely it is to engage in irrational behaviour. Engaging China in international efforts to resort global and regional problems makes Beijing’s goals and aims look more transparent and less threatening. The rise of China is fuelling suspicion and anxiety in all corners of the globe. Washington appears to regard China as its future major competitor.... 

Carla Bruni Could Have Done Better With Her Second Album…

Andrew Rose writes: An alien with an interest in EU politics might be puzzled by the excistence of mutual Anglo-French suspicion. He or she or it would reflect that yes, the two nations have fought in the past, but it happened so long ago. They can’t really continue to squabble with each other over things that no one really remembers any more. The alien would be wrong, of course. The feeling of suspicion remains. The French have the edge in food and wine, but the British are wealthier and can buy it all up, or move over to France and indulge themselves, till death takes them. The curious alien would be baffled. And then his or her or its beady antenna, or whatever ocular organ he or she or it has, would pick up a slim female figure strolling in a trouser suit, feet bare, along a river... 

The Scandal With Jonathan Ross Has Revealed One Thing: The Media Generally Supports The BBC

It is getting crazier by the day: in the aftermath of the scandal surrounding the obscene messages, left by those great masters of comedy, Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, on the answering machine of a retired actor, Andrew Sachs, the BBC has launched a campaign of assuring the public that it is going to cut down on the swearing in its programmes. Get it? Not ban or banish, but cut down. So the message coming from the BBC is: swearing on air is important to us. We can’t just simply put a stop to it. We find it deeply poetic. It makes people laugh. It’s entertainment, innit it? And the most amazing thing about it is that all the rest of the British media treats this idiocy as if it is some victory for common sense. Oh look, look, the newspapers are writing, the BBC is changing for... 

Western Intelligence Services Expected A Terrorist Attack To Happen. But Didn’t Know Where

Thomas Mathew writes: It turns out that Western intelligence services, primarily the CIA, were actually expecting a ‘spectacular terrorist attack’ to happen before the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama and are now saying that the massacre in Mumbai has proven that they were right. As if it now makes any difference to the dead and wounded people, or to anyone esle for that matter, what the CIA and others were thinking or predicting. I have always found it strange how government agencies, that are supposed to foresee events and help prevent them, claim after an attack happens in some part of the world that they had their suspicions all along that something of that nature would take place. Why is it that the security services get it so wrong so often? Are they not supposed... 

Is Taiwan Being Incorporated In China? It Sure Looks Like It

Martin McCauley writes: Taiwan is desperate to modernise its armed forces and has been asking the US to supply it with new weapons. But its requests for new military hardware were frozen by President George Bush’s administration in December 2007. However, there was some good news for Taipei last month: Washington finally agreed to upgrade Taiwan’s defence forces. The bad news was that systems as diesel powered submarines and Black Hawk helicopters were not included. The reason is quite simple: Washington did not want to antagonise China. But even despite this Beijing raised a hullabaloo about the sales and suspended various military exchange programmes with the US. Although it was more of a symbolic gesture rather than some damaging practical move. The new systems will reduce slightly... 

Indian Prime Minister Accuses ‘Outsiders’ Of Attacks In Mumbai. How Does He Know?

So, while the hotels in Mumbai were still burning after the terrorist attacks and the security forces were still searching for the attackers in the city, Indian Prime Minister, Manmoth Singh, came on national television and said that the group behind the outrage was based ‘outside the country’. He did not say where exactly these terrorists, who call themselves Deccan Mujahideen, were based but everyone figured that Singh was talking about Pakistan. Where else could they have come from? The Indian media conveniently reported about some mysterious boats arriving at Mumbai from out of nowhere – read Pakistan, of course – and even claimed that Indian security forces had recently discovered a suspicious boat that could have been used to bring explosives to Mumbai by the... 

The Terrorist Attacks In Mumbai. Of Words And Deeds

Christopher Lee writes: We demand that our politicians react to outrages like the one that has taken place in India, with appropriate language, and then our instincts tell us that they are simply mouthing platitudes. We scorn them for not saying the right thing, but deep down we know that there is no right thing to say.This is part of our universal contempt for the political class that is aggravated because we understand how powerful they are when deciding our comfort, yet powerless when it comes to exercising their authority at home and abroad. Just like bankers, politicians still collect the bonuses that their great offices provide them and just like bankers they often create a mess that we then all have to overcome. Because of their history, the British have strong feelings towards India.... 

BBC Controllers Will Have To Approve The Use Of Every Single Swear Word On Air. The Poor #@*#@!

Sorry to be banging on about Jonathan Ross and the scandal surrounding his and Russell Brand’s disgraceful escapade on radio with those obscene phone calls to former actor Andrew Sachs but every day brings some new twist in the shameful saga, as it is gradually becoming clear that the corporation is run by people who seem to be living on a different planet all together.It has transpired yesterday, for example, that all senior BBC producers have been told by the corporation’s top brass that in the future they would need the approval of controllers of each channel to allow the use of swear words on air. From now on every time some thuggish foul-mouthed presenter or comedian decides to spice up the contents with an F-word or a C-word the recording of the programme or a show would... 

How About Reviving The Scandal Involving ‘Mandy’, George And Oleg, The Russian Oligarch?

You know what I’ve been thinking about recently? I’ve been thinking about the possibility of reviving the scandal surrounding the meetings in August on a yacht off the coast of Corfu between Peter Mandelson, the then EU Trade Commissioner and currently Business Secretary, George Osborne, the then and the now Shadow Chancellor, and the then Russian oligarch and currently still a very wealthy man, Oleg Deripaska. Now, wouldn’t it be interesting if we could learn what was actually discussed on that yacht between Mandelson, also known as ‘Mandy’, Osborne, also known as, well, Osborne, and Deripaska, also known as the richest man in Russia. Because there might have been some very interesting exchanges made on that boat, sorry, yacht. Otherwise why would Deripaska invite... 

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