Blogs: January 2009 Archives

Guardian blogger, Dave Hill mentions Martin Linton's comments on the Evening Standard being purchased by Lededev.

It can only be better, I think, than what's gone in the past...they've turned the Evening Standard into a sort of south-eastern newspaper which actually has very little in it about London...it seems to be written for people who live in Tunbridge Wells and commute to London every day and what something to read on the way back.

Linton was speaking on The Politics Show. There will be more detail on their web site.

Oliver Kamm was also at the recent meeting at the Royal Society of the Arts. He writes about it in his Times blog. He doesn't have a very high opinion of Martin Linton.

Someone else not to be taken seriously, I discover, is Martin Linton MP, who recalled that the first President Bush had withdrawn loans to Israel. Bush did no such thing: Linton is confused between the concepts of a loan and a loan guarantee. The George H.W. Bush administration in any case did not withdraw loan guarantees from Israel but made them conditional on cessation of West Bank settlement.

Fair Deal Phil picks up on a quote from Martin Linton, commenting on the number of Palestinians who have died in the recent Israeli attacks.

If every time the IRA killed a British soldier, 100 Catholics were killed on the Falls Road, people would think it was outrageous.

Linton was speaking on the BBC news.

The Labourhome blog has an article about 53 Labour politicians who have written a letter to the Foreign Secretary calling for action to stop the bombing of civilians in Palestine. Martin Linton is one of the MPs on the list.

The letter itself is printed in the Guardian.