Peter C. Glover is an English writer & freelance journalist specializing in political, media and energy analysis (and is currently European Associate Editor for the US magazine Energy Tribune. He has been published extensively and is also the author of a number of books including The Politics of Faith: Essays on the Morality of Key Current Affairs which set out the moral case for the invasion of Iraq and a Judeo-Christian defence of the death penalty.
Torture: Why 24’s Jack Is Right
As the seventh season of 24 reaches its climax in the UK, a UK Parliamentary inquiry and a media witch-hunt into the part played by British intelligence in the US rendition program is in full swing. Why mention these things in the same sentence? Well it doesn't take a rocket scientist to grasp that while the latest season of 24's action focuses on a plot at the heart of the US Government, the story's subtext -- if Obama would allow us to twist the producers' arms, they would surely confirm it -- is: the morality of torture.- Monday, May 11, 2009