Archive - Dec 21, 2004

By sheer chance I happened to watch on BBC World last night the second part of a two-hour documentary produced for BBC Two's "This World" program called "One Day of War". It was a quite fascinating account of sixteen people in each of sixteen trouble spots around the world, all filmed on the same day, 22 March 2004.

If ever any proof was needed of Time magazine's irrelevance as a chronicle of current events, it comes with the announcement that G.Dubya Bush has been named its Man of the Year for 2004.