It's a bizarre, disbelieving world!

Tony Blair intends to call for tighter weapons trade controls at the forthcoming UN world summit while UK ministers welcome the world's arm dealers and human rights abusers to do business in London at Europe's largest arms fair.

The UK actively discourages and deters nation-states developing or acquiring nuclear weapons while John Reid, the Defence minister, announces that it is 'inevitable' that the UK will need to replace and renew it's own nuclear arsenal.

MakePovertyHistory, a campaign that has engaged and mobilised millions of people to demand trade justice, that crippling debts be dropped and more and better aid be offered to the world's poorest nations have been prohibited from advertising on TV for being too political!

Can't imagine why there is so little interest in politics!

As Robert Lewis writes 'our postmodern world is tired of words. It wants real. Real is everything. Real is convincing.' (Lewis, 2001:39)

Let's make empty rehtoric history.