Admitting that I write too much about the Atlantic Bridge is the first step towards — another post on the subject! It’s the nature of the blogging beast: when everything’s shrunk down into pixels, a strange equality of consequence develops. And when you’ve sunk yer teeth into something, you begin to imagine that it’s a huge, fearsome monster you’re grappling with.

The Bridge isn’t – to my knowledge – at all influential, but it’s quite revealing: like sneaking a look at the Manager’s Christmas Party. This is swiped from their U.S. branch…

The stories on Fox – “hot topics“, no less! – are from October 2009. Quite touching, in a way (can’t wait ’til “Liam Fox wins 4B sack race” appears). The Cheney link, however, transports you to a much more noxious place. There, the wizened puppet-master roars that “to call enhanced interrogation a program of torture is…a libel against dedicated professionals who acted honorably and well“. “To completely rule out enhanced interrogation in the future,” he goes on, “Is unwise in the extreme” (in a macabre flourish, he claims that “the United States has never lost its moral bearings“).

The endorsement of Cheney’s splutterings, one suspects, is indicative of their next little outing’s content…

The discussion will be led by J.D. Gordon, a former Pentagon mouthpiece. Anyone want to bet on which “perception” will become “reality“?

We’ve seen Liam Fox, and the Bridge at large, celebrating war criminals and after he hired a torture apologist it was inevitable that the seamy guff would sneak inside his little Conservative cubby-hole. Boy, who’s lookin’ forward to the “change” his Party’s brandishing?