Today (Monday 18th Sept) the CEN has run three full pages, plus the comment column on "war on terror: the boardgame" branding it "sick"

Tory MPs lined up to criticise the game without knowing anything about it. Jim Paice said "I don't like the sound of it" and Andrew Lansley said "This board game is in very bad taste and it appears somebody has gone too far."

The game designed by Cambridge based Terror Bull Games, which involves the judicious use of war and the funding of terrorism to carve up the world's natural resources, has been three years in the making and perhaps understandably has not been uncontroversial.

The game contains lots of elements Mr Tony Blair might like to pay attention to (those you fund today come back to haunt you tomorrow, nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction and the impulse to dominate the globe increases, rather than diminishes, the level of international conflict) and also challenges the ideas of the good / pro-democracy empires vs the bad / axis of evil.

In one sense the CEN attacks (and it should said there is also a very fair interview with the game designers) are to be welcomed as an opportunity to discuss the real war on terror, and maybe think about what's more inappropriate, a murderous carnal house of global reaction or a board game that raises some topical issues.



Is "War on terror the board game" sick? Take part in the CEN online poll (you need to do that today while it's still their current poll)  http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/

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