Some considerations on natural law and race that arose while reading Charles Dunoyer, over at Positive Liberty.

On the 4th April 2007, the BBC carried a story about an unusual marriage: Sebastian Socodo is an Argentine & Phoebe Reid is a Falklands Islander. They live in Port Stanley & have two children.

What is really unusual is the BBC reporter’s tone, as exemplified in the opening & closing paragraphs of the report. The War was between governments, not peoples. People can live together peacefully; their rulers can't [emphasis added]:

“The UK and Argentine governments may be further than ever from reaching a definitive solution to the Falkland Islands/Malvinas dispute, but one couple living on the islands is giving them a lesson in peaceful co-existence. ”
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“Twenty-five years after the Falklands War, marriages like this one show an alternative solution to a problem which most feel detached from and which seems to be more of a tug of war between governments. ”

If even the BBC can begin to see that peoples don’t go to war, only governments can & do, there’s hope yet.

I'd go to this: Hume and Smith on Justice, Sympathy, and Commerce McGill University April 13, 2007. Looks like good stuff.

Matthew Parris asks "Did John Paul II perform a miracle? Am I Mother Teresa?". I've long been an admirer of Parris who writes for The Times (of London). This column is published just in time for Holy Week.

Robert Tait explains why most Iranians see Britain as an old colonial power that's still meddling in their affairs.

UPDATE: Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, explains here that: (1) the Iran/Iraq maritime boundary shown on the British government map does not exist; and (2) accepting the British coordinates for the position of both HMS Cornwall and the incident, both were closer to Iranian land than Iraqi land.

Murray concludes,"None of which changes the fact that the Iranians, having made their point, should have handed back the captives immediately. I pray they do so before this thing spirals out of control. But by producing a fake map of the Iran/Iraq boundary, notably unfavourable to Iran, we can only harden the Iranian position."