With Nick Drew and others, I’ll be joining Iain Dale on LBC tomorrow night from midnight through to 0600 on Friday to offer thoughts on the UK elections. My niche will be foreign thoughts/angles. If any readers out there – especially people overseas – want to send in any observations […]
The Guardian tells us about a serious police raid in California: California police have taken six computers and other items from the house of Jason Chen, the editor of the gadget blog Gizmodo who appeared on a video on the site showing off a lost Apple iPhone prototype which, it […]
Let’s start with a brilliant resource for all Brit bloggers: localmouth, a way to find local blogs wherever you are in the UK. Hover somewhere near Oxford and you might find mine. A wonderful example of the way intelligent networked pluralism helps mobilise human creativity without busybody official statist help. […]
Loath as we all are to disagree with Guido, on the issue of how fast votes are counted after elections he is Wrong and Iain Dale is Right. In the FCO I have followed politics in communist Yugoslavia (no voting), apartheid South Africa (no voting for most people), Yeltsin’s Russia […]
As any fule kno, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski is married to Anne Applebaum, seriously distinguished writer/commentator/historian. So when Radek failed to get selected as Citizens Platform candidate to run for Polish President later this year, what else could Anne do but write a short piece about what it’s like […]
Remember Brains from Thunderbirds? Thus: Such is the bountifulness of capitalism that you buy cool glasses like this (albeit alas not quite so pale blue) on Ebay. And (via Instapundit) a lucid explanation of the differences between Nerds, Dweebs, Dorks and Geeks.
While I was HM Ambassador in Poland I was accused of improper lobbying of Parliament. (Slavist linguistics note: Polish has lifted the English word lobbying and incorporated it into Polish in a strange form – lobbing) I forget now exactly what the issue was about. Maybe a complicated dispute between the then […]
The Obama administration’s ruthlessness in driving through its healthcare so-called reforms has to be admired in its sheer boldness. Now what? Mark Steyn: You can say, oh, well, the polls show most people opposed to it, but, if that mattered, the Dems wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing. Their bet […]
Once upon a time I was honoured to be noticed by the great Instapundit. Readership shoots up fleetingly if the Professor links to you on his site, as his readers run into the hundreds of thousands. Ditto Guido. An Iain Dale link too is much prized. But to get a […]
Via The Browser a rather lame article by Jay Rosen arguing that journalists in the USA have become so non-judgmental that they are striving for an impossible professional ‘innocence’ and are just missing the point. By way of evidence he cites a long analysis of the Tea Party tendency in the USA […]
