Archive for May 16th, 2008

Undermining Freedom

16th May 2008 with 1 Comment

Nick Cohen in the Guardian on the UK’s pandering to despots:
Europe’s most blatant example is Vladimir Putin’s Russia. When its agents poisoned Alexander Litvinenko with polonium-210, the Russians were as astonished as the Saudis that Britain insisted on bringing alleged criminals to justice. ‘I don’t understand the position of the British government,’ a foreign ministry [...]

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