Linking Brexit to Chilcot inquiry is an overreach

John Shepherd’s confusing, and confused, attempt to create a viable nexus between Brexit and Chilcot is like Onan’s seed that falls on stony ground. This is nothing more than an apparent attempt to trivialise a war that took 179 British military lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and then pointlessly contextualise it with a relatively bloodless and mostly unrelated British tragedy.
I suggest that Shepherd revisit the Iraq Inquiry address by Sir John Chilcot, and absorb what the man was actually talking about. He won’t find any evidence of crossed wires, that’s for sure.
Dr Frank
No guns under any |circumstances
When I visited the United Nations headquarters, I was impressed to see “Non-Violence”, also known as “The Knotted Gun”, at the building’s entrance.
Not a big sculpture, it is formed in the shape of a revolver with its barrel knotted. However, it gave me a very big message that we should never use guns under any circumstances.
Particularly the part of the knotted barrel was so real and powerful that it really made me think about controlling our natural tendency to use force.
The sculpture originally was dedicated to John Lennon. However, isn’t it now time for us to listen to the silent cry of non-violence of “The Knotted Gun”?
How about adding this place to the UN tour? It really speaks to every visitor. The UN is committed to world peace, which will be so difficult to realise without practising ahimsa (“to do no harm” and “compassion”).
Hiroshi Noro
The Japan Times/ANN