Day May 29, 2004

Long hot summer More and more, I’m feeling that serious change is coming to this country, and quite soon. There will be nationwide antiwar protests on June 5th, and it’s looking like people who have never protested in their life…

Say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss A British-educated neurosurgeon who has close links with both the CIA and MI6, was named as Iraq’s new interim prime minister last night. Not that it matters who the…

Nixon ‘too drunk’ for Cold War crisis chat Former US President Richard Nixon was too drunk to answer the phone when Britain’s prime minister rang him at the height of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, according to newly-released records. <Henry Kissinger…

Unclear on the concept? A schoolboy posed as a female British secret service spy in an internet chatroom to persuade a friend to try to murder him, a court heard yesterday.

Hybrids Call it revenge of the nerds. Gas-guzzling muscle cars are being overtaken by unassuming little hybrids. And the Toyota Prius is leading the charge. For the first four months of the year, sales of the Prius are up 80…