Comments on Aaronovitch Watch: In which Aaro goes a little bit stark staring fuck...

Does Aaro have to keep on reprinting NuLab talking...

2008-06-24T18:28:00.000Z

Does Aaro have to keep on reprinting NuLab talking points for the rest of his working life, because of the help he got from Mandelson in getting into journalism?

Moussaka Man

DD if by "link, link!" you meant the Michael White...

2008-06-18T19:37:00.000Z

DD if by "link, link!" you meant the Michael White and myself argument, it's here. I'm DaveW. I replied to him; he didn't come back to me.

I admit that I wrote my original comment when just waking up and that the Powell reference reminded me of Jamie's post on

Doesn't this make Aaro a Holocaust-denier? Or, rat...

2008-06-18T06:58:00.000Z

Doesn't this make Aaro a Holocaust-denier? Or, rather, it would if "the worst argument in the history of the interwebs" (tm) had any merit

http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2004/11/talking_down_th.html

Just to clarify, "to try and convict" means "to pu...

2008-06-17T21:23:00.000Z

Just to clarify, "to try and convict" means "to put on trial and convict" - not "to try to convict".

I hate to get all legalist and pedantic, but if yo...

2008-06-17T21:20:00.000Z

I hate to get all legalist and pedantic, but if you haven't been proved guilty in a court of law you are not guilty. Only you and God know exactly what you did and why you did it; the court doesn't know whether you did what you're charged with, but by the end of the trial it does know whether you've been found guilty. A DNA match may make it harder for you to get off, but it doesn't enable

"Or, that Aaro is slippery, despicable Government ...

2008-06-17T17:25:00.000Z

"Or, that Aaro is slippery, despicable Government propogandist. "

That'll be the one...

Link! link!

2008-06-17T15:41:00.000Z

Link! link!

Andrew, that interpretation might be too harsh. Do...

2008-06-17T15:37:00.000Z

Andrew, that interpretation might be too harsh. Doesn't DA mean it will help solve unsolved crimes, ie. people who haven't been caught for crimes they have already committed?

Bugger! I considered posting a prediction that Aar...

2008-06-17T15:28:00.000Z

Bugger! I considered posting a prediction that Aaro would cover this one... And then bloody Kelvin MacKenzie changed his mind! Murdoch didn't approve. So I didn't. I thought, "ah-ha! that's going to the Times line; just ignore the whole thing." DA should read his emails.

Oh

By the way, that reasoning means that while Aaro m...

2008-06-17T13:16:00.000Z

By the way, that reasoning means that while Aaro might make an argument for David Davis being an authoritarian in the Adolf Hitler mould, only without the genocidal imagination, there is a much stronger argument to be made that Aaro's views on guilt and innocence are those of Sidney De'ath, only without the endorsement of capital punishment.

Or, the Aaro is an idiot, who doesn't

Bloody hell, I read the Times (because it availabl...

2008-06-17T12:48:00.000Z

Bloody hell, I read the Times (because it available at 'student price' at the Uni I work at and it has an excellent set of puzzles), and Aaro is the worst of it. I expect nasty crap from the right-wingers, and the mental ex-RCPers who seem to populate the Thunderer column. But Aaro pretends to be 'left'.

The column includes this defence of the DNA database: "Mr Davis says he would only

It should also be noted that official state actors...

2008-06-17T08:09:00.000Z

It should also be noted that official state actors are not the only potential abusers, there are criminals too.

There will be so many people with some kind of access to the system and that access will be so valuable to the wrong hands that it is almost inevitable that it will be abused. We can't really expect higher standards for ID card data that we can for "Top Secret" restricted