This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility of Scotland being a kind of Stormont is a real one. I wrote a book recently about Neil Lennon's year of living dangerously and in the course of it I had to revisit some of my own experiences. Of course, most Scottish people are not swivel-eyed, loyalist sectarians but there are a large number of them. A large six-figure number, and if I were living in Scotland as a Roman Catholic I would be worried about that.

It is only losers that are prosecuted.