England pulls the Official Secrets Act against the press.

This story has found legs after the UK pulled a Patriot act on the press. Why isn't Karen Hughes flying over there and doing her job for once? What does she do anyway except get Middle Eastern women mad at her?

Brad Blog has this London story up. A new blog has been created.

Mark Kleiman says that:.."the apparent plot to bomb Al-Jazeera has apparently seriously annoyed the ruling family in Qatar. Not only is Qatar an ally of the U.S., but it has one of the less objectionable regimes in that part of the world: not at all democratic, but not kleptocratic, either, and with a strong liberalizing tendency. (Women were allowed to vote in elections for local councils last year.)...read on"

(Update)- Boris Johnson is a member of the Conservative Party in Britian, a member of Parliament, He says he'll print the memo.

The Moderate Voice has a right/left round up...