As long as theyre Labour M.P.s! From the Torygraph, which reminds us that it was wrong to search Damian Green’s office.

Eh dear. The Liverpool criminal. These guys actually entered an RAF base and set the police helicopter alight.

New York times piece on Mullah Omar…but not really. It harbinges the coming debate about negotiating NATO out of Afghanistan. More important is the link to McChrystal’s assessment of the insurgency.

Opinion piece, suggesting that the idiots who got us into this mess [Afghanistan and Iraq] still successfully dominate the debate. Hey, man, over here in Yurrup we noticed! We are still fighting the enemy that doesnt exist rather than the more complex and divided enemy that does in such a way that they have no … TWO WRONGS MAKE ANOTHER FIASCO

HMRC taking Vanitis executives to court over tax avoidance scheme. Going to be an interesting case. the revenue hasnt had a lot more luck than the SFO with its prosecutions, so we shall see…

Good article, linking violence to the decline of the Baybasin clan after key members jailed and a falling out with the PKK. Repeat of a recognisable pattern. Who is in charge of policy after a gang has been broken up? Betcha nobody is…

Death of “Yaponchik” one of the “thieves in law”.

Curtis Warren found guilty of planning to flood Jersey with cannabis. Warren hails from Liverpool and even in jail in Amsterdam is still considered to be a major player.

Actually from the Belfast Telegraph, though printed in the Independent. May be part of Unionist v sinn fein dispute over policing, but there clearly is a growing threat to police personnel from dissident republican groups.

Mortar attack expected. article also charts recent activity by dissident groups