For what it’s worth here is Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech. He has cancer so he had to deliver the speech via video link from England rather than in person: Nobel Lecture – Literature 2005. As usual he is outspoken and extraordinarily eloquent. Love him or hate him, the man can turn a phrase! […]

The U.K. House of Lords decided yesterday that evidence obtained from a prisoner by the use of torture cannot be used in a court case against that person. There are several terrorist cases working there way through the British legal system, and although no one suggests that torture has been used against any of the […]

Not to belabor the point but now the top U.N. human rights official has criticized the U.S. for its alleged torture of prisoners. The Washington Post has this report: U.N. Official Faults U.S. Detentions. From the article you can see that John Bolton is living all the way down to my very low expectations of […]