Europe faces pressure to toe US line on Hamas

Continuing to suggest there's something resembling an honest effort to find a peaceful solution to this madness is so offensive.

A workmate tells me he thinks we should 'colonise' Iraq. I asked him why he was under the impression we haven't.

He just smiled the way someone does when they've just peeped at a dirty picture.

I resent the ones who, like my workmate, feel they have an inherent right to take what they want from this world no matter the cost.

And I'm losing patience with people who claim not to know why they hate us.

Pick-up a history book that wasn't written for adolescents in the meat grinder laughingly referred to as the public education system.