He vociferously opposed torture (he was tortured himself in Vietnam), but was no softy on Iraq: he called early and loudly for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation.
Critics say it just provides cover for companies from China and elsewhere which cheerfully sign up to it and then even more cheerfully ignore it.But on one thing Georg Kell, the compact's perky executive director, is no softy.
Keeping in touch with the news from home by Blackberry, I saw the disorder and looting variously blamed on gangs, bad parenting, rap music, computer games, consumerism, moral breakdown, softy police chiefs, coalition cuts, unemployment, racism, anti-racism and the bad examples set by bankers and expense-fiddling MPs.
The tall Southerner may be soft-spoken, but he is no softy.
He says: "Essentially, drivers don't take as much notice of zebra crossings as they should because there's no red light telling them to stop .As so often, the Daily Mail thinks the fault lies in modern Britain's softy law and order policies, reporting that:the fines in Britain are considerably lower for a motorist prosecuted for not stopping at a crossing compared to many other countries.
Despite his thuggish appearance, Mr Clarke is a bit of a softy whose grip leaves something to be desired.
A new way forward Clearer, but less cuddly Buy high, sell low Zombie democracy ReprintsThe official, Jin Wei, is no Tibetan-hugging softy.
Reedus also cried for over an hour before shooting Beth's death scene because he's a softy in real life.
Well, I chose what I thought would be the softy of the range – the 270.
"I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through".
The late Tony Judt, who was hardly anyone's idea of a leftist softy, devoted much of his last, heroic work, written in conditions of near-impossible personal suffering, to the subject of … trains: trains as symbols of the public good, trains as a triumph of the liberal imagination, trains as the "symbol and symptom of modernity," and modernity at its best.
