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| Beachy Head lighthouse faces closure Beachy Head lighthouse in Sussex is among six around the coast of Britain facing closure as they are replaced by more modern navigational devices onboard ships. telegraph.co.uk |
Cambridge punts face super tax Super-wide 'ferry' punts piloted by chauffeurs are clogging up the river Cam, prompting the authorities to take steps to restrict their use. telegraph.co.uk |
Gordon Ramsay embroiled in legal row 'over unpaid £55k cleaners' bill' Gordon Ramsay is embroiled in a legal row with an employment agency in America over an alleged unpaid £55,000 cleaners' bill, court papers have disclosed. telegraph.co.uk |
The Big Issue Having been shouted down by opponents in what passes as debate for years, it was a profound relief to read Nick Cohen articulating the moral high ground on which the Iraq war was based ("Blair will never be branded a war criminal", Comment).It is so simple. The cases for going into Rwanda, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Iraq are identical: people were being murdered in their thousands. End of story. You can't support intervention in the first three but not in Iraq. Saddam killed for 30 years and his sons were carrying on murdering.Opposition to the war is fuelled largely by anti-Americanism in general and a hatred of Bush in particular and, yes, I think he's a twerp too.But how can you possibly support such a monster by opposing his removal? How could you and then claim any moral high ground? You should be ashamed of yourselves.Alan CropperLondon SE1■ I am wholly unsurprised that Nick Cohen is not a Fern Britton viewer, but even so, Blair has now admitted the whole thing. On television.Opposition to the Iraq war was supposed to have been "antisemitic" at the time, although heaven knows how or why. Any threat to Israel would have depended on the existence of WMD, an existence believed neither by 90% of the population nor, as everyone but Cohen could tell and as everyone but Cohen now knows from the horse's mouth, by Tony Blair.But they have exhausted everything else. They have exhausted everything else on Afghanistan, so they are back to 9/11, a wholly unconnected event. And they have exhausted everything else on Iraq, so they are back to accusing that war's totally vindicated opponents of being antisemitic for never having supported the deaths of, as even Kelvin Mackenzie baldly stated it on Question Time, one million Semites. Nick Cohen is so much better than this.David LindsayLanchester, Co Durham■ Please give Nick Cohen a medal for consistent journalistic writing of the highest order. I do so agree with his latest article. Some years ago, I read a book entitled After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? My Encounters With Kurdistan by Jonathan C Randal, an American, in which he describes the gassing and persecution of Kurds. owever, sSometimes, one has to make a stand against cruelty and wickedness. We should feel proud of our armed services which participated and which are still fighting daily to preserve the freedoms we often take for granted.Annette St John HoweWoolDorset■ I wanted Saddam out and I was and remain against the Iraq war. How you resolve that contradiction is another question. What I cannot stomach is Tony Blair's and others' pious retrospective justifications of the war. We all need to step back and take a more dispassionate, historical look at things. Until then, Cohen remains just another anguished ideologue.Patrick MarmionLondon NW10■ I am not a lawyer, but I think I can help Nick Cohen with his difficulty understanding what constitutes an illegal war. A war of aggression against a country that poses no imminent military threat to you would be a good example. I would be very surprised if journalists of the calibre of John Humphrys or Jon Snow thought it worthwhile asking any interviewee if they knew this.David LynchWantageIraq war inquiryIraqTony BlairSaddam HusseinNick Cohenguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Haiti earthquake: second British victim named Ann Barnes, who worked for the UN in Haiti, has been named as the second British victim of the earthquake to die in Port-au-Prince. telegraph.co.uk |