Dick of the Year: David Bahati MP

I’d like to nominate Ugandan MP David Bahati for Dick of the Year. His initial dickishness should have seen him qualify for 2009′s award, but he deserves it in 2011 due to the consequences of his actions two years ago.

Libya – time for Egypt to step up?

by Gilbert Ramsay There are occasions when world events seem to laugh at pure political principles. There certainly aren’t as many as there seem to be. Often our politicians and our media present us with false choices, or downright falsified choices. ‘OK, we shouldn’t have given all that support to Saddam Hussein, but we did, [...]

bailed-out RBS lead near billion pound deal for Uganda war zone oil company

Yesterday I posted a story about how we had just launched a legal action against the Treasury over their failure to stop RBS misusing public money.  Right after I posted it, I heard about RBS’ latest deal, and wrote the below for our website. I can think of few worse uses for public money than [...]