ARS NOTORIA

Dearest Eve, Accept my sincere greetings for the coming year, may it usher in a new era in the progress of our struggle, I am convinced there must be a great change, we are moving to our goal, despite grievous obstacles. Incidentally, I must apologise for my very long silence again, you must get used to me now, everything has changed, I am no longer that efficient correspondent; with more problems on my head, at times I feel I am starting to have a breakdown, my transfer to Lusaka has, contrary to expectations, aggravated the situation. I have become more unproductive, if ever I was. Can you imagine not having an office, above all being a perpetual boarder, I can't determine my way of life. I am hoping, at least, that the latter will be soon solved, the comrades of MPLA gave us their house, which I will occupy as soon as it is cleaned, but I went away for two weeks and came back and they still hadn't cleaned it. I was attending a meeting of the NEC in Morogoro, I

...shouting 'Yippee ki yay Mother f***ers!' US citizen's celebrate the summary execution of Osama Bin Laden Here, from Europe, the displays of joy on the killing of Obama are unseemly to all but the relatives of the European victims of the attack on the Twin Towers who happen to believe in summary justice and capital punishment. Certainly, no Christian can claim to rejoice in the killing of any one or accept the taking of revenge as a Christian value. Moreover, personalising the victory in such a way is infantile. It is the US comic book politics that country reserves for its foreign policy. Obama is Superman now, and the US has completely disavowed Kissinger's killing me softly approach. It was Doris Lessing in her science fiction books, Shikasta and others, who talked of the importance of trials as a way of clarifying people's thoughts on global issues.Nuremberg did the job. The Hague. Then you even have the example of the Stalinist show trials. They served

What are the dealbreakers? Ed Davey, LibDem MP and Undersecretary of State for Business In a conversation an hour ago, Ed Davey insisted that if it wasn't for their participation in the government then things would have been much worse. We act as a brake on the Tories and are able to introduce a lot of policies that we are proud of. Look, I said. I voted against the Tories, but thanks to you, I've got a Tory government. N o, you got a LibDem MP and we've done a lot to look after people. He gave me some examples. We've raised the income tax threshold and it's benefitted a million and a half more people. We've helped disadvantaged children... He continued. Blunket , and Reed and others came on TV and ruled out the possibility of a  coalition with the Labour government anyway. And it would have been a minority government. What we see, I said, the people on the left who supported the LibDems because  of their green policies and tuition fees