Cheats such as Mark Owen don’t ‘love’ women, as they often claim. If you trick women and lie to them, you must hate them I feel devastated. Every time I think about it, I feel sick.
As Eliot Spitzer left office and David Paterson became governor, New Yorkers almost breathed a sigh of relief. It didn’t last long When Eliot Spitzer bucked the New York Democratic establishment and selected Senate minority leader David Paterson as his running mate in 2006, many people thought Spitzer was crazy – and Paterson, too.
Progress can be achieved through open engagement without preconditions – and that includes Hamas I returned last week from a visit to Gaza as part of a parliamentary delegation from the Britain-Palestine All-Party Group. Knowing that no political delegations were getting in via the Erez border crossing (the Irish foreign minister was turned away last month), we opted for the longer route through Cairo and Rafah, entering from the Egyptian side. To smooth our passage we thought a letter from the Foreign Office (FCO) would assist.
Will the Democrats pass healthcare reform? We’ll find out next week if Nancy Pelosi can deliver the votes she needs There have been so many twists and turns in the struggle to pass healthcare reform that anyone watching could get dizzy. But the endgame is near.
At a summit in Dubai, scholars and clerics are gathering to destroy the Somalian rebels’ religious credibility Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has been busy of late. This weekend he is attending a summit in Dubai, along with an international cast of scholars and clerics, to refute the ideologies of groups that “abuse the name of sharia by imposing their own literal, ill-informed interpretations onto others”.
More than half a million travellers to be hit by strikes on successive weekends from 20 March Martin Rowson
Muslims in the west need to find their own expression of the universal teachings of Islam The death last month of the Swiss-born British Muslim Charles le Gai Eaton provided a reminder of the surprise that sometimes greets Europeans who have made the decision to convert to Islam. Eaton could be seen as a curiosity because he chose a faith not traditionally associated with his ethnicity. However, a defining aspect of Islam, from its inception, has been that it is race-blind
Terry Sanderson paints the Catholic bishops’ pre-election statement as a cliche-ridden ‘damp squib’. Judge for yourself The question: Should religious leaders tell us how to vote? The National Secular Society’s Terry Sanderson thought the Catholic bishops’ pre-election document a “damp squib ..
Records compiled from investigations after golfer’s car crash raise fresh questions about his account to journalists Fresh questions have been raised about Tiger Woods’ account of the car crash outside his home that led to the unravelling of his private and sporting life, after revelations that the ambulance crew refused to allow his wife, Elin Nordegren, into the ambulance because they thought it was a case of domestic violence. Records compiled from investigations by the Florida highway patrol, released last night, show that when paramedics collected Woods “one of the crew stated that [his] wife could not go in ambulance because this was a domestic”.
Maya Jaggi welcomes an Algerian novel that addresses the Holocaust The flight of Nazi war criminals to South America is not unknown to fiction . That some Nazis remade themselves in the Arab world is perhaps less known, and lies behind Boualem Sansal’s humane, searching and audacious novel. Set in the 1990s, between civil-war Algeria and run-down Paris suburbs festering with Islamist recruitment drives, An Unfinished Business is in part an attempt to rediscover the meaning of the Holocaust for a generation largely ignorant of it
