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October 2007
It was in the little notes she wrote home to her family in Poland that Magda Pniewska revealed the silent anguish behind the smiling face of a young woman who had travelled to Britain in search of a better life.
BROWN FEELS THE SQUEEZE OVER EUROPE AS OLD FOES RE-GROUP The Sunday Telegraph, 14 October 2007 Growing public and political demands for a referendum on the EU reform treaty will present Gordon Brown with his stiffest test on the European stage this week.
It was as astonishing an admission as any that has emerged from the lips of a British officer in the four and a half years since the tanks rolled over the Iraqi border. The British Army, said the man sitting in a prefab hut in Britain’s last base in the country, were tired of fighting. Not only that: their very presence in Basra was now the problem.
Basra fight pointless, says British commander The Sunday Telegraph, 28 October 2007 One of the most senior British commanders in Iraq has claimed that there is no point in fighting on in Basra, likening British troops in the city to "Robocop" and admitting that innocent people were hurt as a result of their actions.
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'We
are tired of firing at people – get us out of here’