Selected Reflections on Political Matters 2003-2011
Introduction: ‘Civilised complicity’ is when judges, lawyers, academics and others, for political ends, are willing to legitimise oppressive and improper actions including torture, ‘administrative’ detentions, imprisonment and death sentences against individuals and groups of peoples, and also invasions of countries.
1. My Uncle Cliff’s Story: Bearing Witness, by Joanne McNally in Scottish Review, edited by Kenneth Roy, 22 Dec 2011, 1,138 words
2. Makluba: The Situation of the Palestinians (in 3 parts). 1: Straight out of Kafka. How I finally managed to enter Gaza; 2: In the land of the broken butterfly; 3.When the judge is your enemy, you have nothing to lose, by Joanne McNally in Scottish Review, edited by Kenneth Roy, Editions 186, 187, 188 of SR Oct 2011, approx.. 4,961 words
3. The moment when I, too, became a fact on the ground, by Joanne McNally in Scottish Review,edited by Kenneth Roy, 28 July 2011, 788 words
4. The Iraq Inquiry. The humanity of Dr Blix, by Joanne McNally in Scottish Review, edited by Kenneth Roy, 8 Feb 2011, 1,096 words
5. Angel in disguise, by Joanne McNally in Scottish Review, edited by Kenneth Roy, 14 Dec 2010,640 words
6. What’s in a leak? Top Secret, by Joanne McNally in Scottish Review, edited by Kenneth Roy, 7 Dec 2010, 826 words
7. Death of Dr Kelly. The unanswered questions, by Joanne McNally in Scottish Review, edited by Kenneth Roy, 7 April 2010, approx..1,590
8. The Chilcot Inquiry II. The double act, by Joanne McNally in Scottish Review , edited by Kenneth Roy, 9 March 2010, approx. 850 words
9. The concocted case, by Joanne McNally in Scottish Review, edited by Kenneth Roy, Feb 2010 ,1,063 words
10. Iraq’s unanswered questions, by Joanne McNally in Scottish Review, edited by Kenneth Roy, 20 Jan 2010, approx.. 1,500 words
11. Draft Notes on Sacred Symbols, Mass Suffering and ‘Civilised Complicity’, published by Scottish PEN, June 2008, 3,519 words
12. Letter from Berlin, published by Scottish PEN, June 2007
13. Presidential Candidate Wendell Willkie’s Presence 60 years on and his ‘One World’, 2004, 778 words
14. Kafka and The Wall, section of McNally’s University of London dissertation essay of 1987, updated in 2003 for the building of the Wall by Israelis, 2,184 words.
