Israeli spokesmen still receive more than their fair share of airtime but, as civilian casualties mount, they are challenged more robustly.
The chiefs did not miss the opportunity to make their point, though critics of the ISC will wonder how they were allowed to say so much without being challenged more robustly – and why certain issues were avoided completely.
Firstly, we wished to follow an established protocol which demonstrated that, when these two endotoxins were injected 3 weeks apart, the second endotoxin challenge robustly stimulated blood levels of TNFα and IL-10, and also HPA axis activity (Richards et al., 2006).
The EU-China human rights dialogue, established 14 years ago, has yielded no tangible results, serving instead as a fig leaf for European leaders' general reluctance to challenge China robustly on its human rights record.
Someone claiming to be a senior tax inspector wrote (anonymously) on my blog recently: "I have said previously that the HMRC Large Business Service's philosophy is one of "customer facilitation" in other words "help" them to get their tax right rather than challenging them robustly by carrying out in depth transaction analysis (as used to happen).
That view has been robustly challenged by Geoffrey Robertson, QC, whose arguments apparently galvanised the FCO into this internal discussion.
The story has now risen rightly to the top of the news agenda, and management and unions are rightly and robustly challenged on their actions.
This should have been more robustly challenged, along with looking at what impact his words have on the everyday followers of that religion.
"Any attempt to [change the law] … would therefore signal a clear desire to give privileged treatment to religious believers, and would be robustly challenged," he warned.
