“They sit across the table from us and tell us: ‘We have zero, zero, zero.’ That’s a red flag to our bull.”
A senior UN official on Iraq’s attitude to weapons inspections (The New York Times, 2 December)
“This book might ruin my career possibilities in Iceland. In a small society like this, you can’t hide.”
Science historian Steindor Erlingsson, whose book Our Genes attacks the popular notion that Icelanders’ Viking genes hold the key to curing disease and making the country rich. (Associated Press, 2 December)
“The good work which was gained in the 1980s has been squandered.”
Derek…
