Livingstone’s pact with the Greens smacks of nervousness. I wonder what Tatchell (Green Party member and victim of Livingstone’s games) makes of it?

Simon Jenkins, one of those right wing “anti-war” types, writes:

Our soldiers now hunkered down in Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq went with the noble aim of righting a wrong. But they have induced in London a renaissance of the imperial urge, the desire to impose one’s own values on foreign peoples through the barrel of a gun.

The funny thing is, that the majority of the populations in all four of those states are in favour of the universal values (such as elected rulers and freedom) that the UK are attempting to allow them to develop. Jenkins paints a picture of savages who cannot aspire to such values. This is presumably the most imperialist document of all.