Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Sunday 11 December 2011
Pro Mundi Beneficio?
It is interesting to be reminded that Manuel Noriega is still alive. At the end of the Cold War, America could have come home. Instead, she chose to present this piffling figure as a world menace, and to go after him in her new role as not just the global policeman but a sort of global social worker. The rest, as they say, is history.
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