It’s 2008 and still bombs from WWII are being found in the neighbourhood. Train and tube journeys have been disrupted as a result.
The Guardian reports:
A massive unexploded second world war-bomb began to tick as experts worked to defuse it, police said today.
The 1,000kg-device (2,200lb) was found in a river at Sugar House Lane, near [...]

From the torygraph:
Sammy Duddy, who died on October 17 aged 62, had a rather unusual curriculum vitae for a member of the Loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association in having been a drag artiste who went by the stage name of Samantha.
During the 1970s the self-styled “Dolly Parton of Belfast” became well known on Belfast’s [...]

You just can’t make this up.
Michael “Looney Loyalist” Stone, he of the recent “I am here to kill Gerry Adams” visit to Stormont, has said (via his solicitor) that his sojourn to the hill equipped with nothing but his wit (and an axe, a garrot, some guns and a handful of nailbombs) was not an [...]

Lucozade Bombers Defeated For Now
So they tried to bomb us again. Even worse - they are us! Have no fear though. Days before we decided to try to bomb us again UK Home Secretary, John “Resin” Reid announced the Government’s latest cunning plan to thwart those who wish to curtail our freedoms. The Government [...]

Ken Loach’s new film, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, has had the British press up in arms, with one paper declaring that it is “designed to drag the reputation of our nation through the mud.”
In fact the critics had their condemnation in print before any of them had seen it! George Monbiot has a [...]

So Tony Blair reckons that he backed going to war in Iraq because he thought that’s what the Bloke Upstairs wanted him to do. Of course this is just repeating what Bush has said many times in the past, so you have to wonder is this all part of Blair’s plan to position himself for [...]

All the stuff about WMD, intel and the national security bureaucracy by Dr Jeffrey Lewis and friends too wonky or obscene for publication:
http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/?s=links
Website dedicated to pictures of bombs. Don’t ask.
http://www.nukephoto.com/

Looks like the Irish Government have been up to their old tricks again. Although officially neutral, Ireland allowed itself to be used as a refuelling point for United States military before, during and after the Iraq war. Even today there is a large amount of American military traffic though Shannon Airport. All of this was [...]