A View From The Foothills by Mullin Chris

Author:Mullin, Chris [Mullin, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2010-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Wednesday, 3 April

In the afternoon I called on the local drugs action team. They are swamped – five years ago they had 46 referrals for heroin addiction; last year there were 574. In addition, they had another 843 for alcohol, amphetamines and prescribed drugs. Alcohol is still the biggest problem, but heroin is rapidly gaining.

Sunday, 17 April

Sunderland

The Man is in Texas, where he appears to have signed us up to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein – unless the tyrant comes out with his hands up, which is not very likely. Is this sensible? The Middle East is ablaze, we are by no means out of the woods in Afghanistan and yet we appear to be organising – or at least conniving at – a new war in Iraq. A provocation too far. It could mark the beginning of the end of the Blair ascendancy. If he’s not careful, sooner or later he will face a challenge. Indeed, in my darker moments, I fantasise about throwing down the gauntlet myself, but do I want to be the man who puts the skids under arguably the most successful Labour administration ever? Of course I don’t.

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