You get sucked in forever

Technology allows us to see historic moments. All of us here saw the statue toppled yesterday and yes it was moving but it does not change my mind on the correctness of this war. This is too complicated to say "I was right and you were wrong" but ... you were wrong and I stand by this.

The news broadcasts seem to have moved on to silly season stories already, but we should not forget that people - many people, are still going to die in Iraq and indeed the rest of the world. I was going to write that 1000 people were massacred in the Congo last week but I see from the BBC that this figure has been revised downwards to 150-300 though this does not make it alright does it? One death like this is one too many. War over oil makes news. Poverty, disease and famine do not. Back to the safety of the Intifada. Eyeless in Bermondsey.

How to enrage hundreds of thousands of square miles in one go. The calm that exists now is but a lull.