“For the Kurds, weapons of mass destruction are not about dry accounting, they are tools of practical repression. Chemical weapons have been used against us more than 200 times.”
Barham Salih, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, calling for support for the war against Saddam Hussein (The Observer, 16 March)
“I actually woke up and smelt the coffee.”
Paralysed actor Christopher Reeve on being fitted with electrodes that allow him to breathe without a respirator. It means he can smell for the first time since the riding accident that paralysed him eight years ago (The Times,…
