Update: Welcome Iain Dale readers * * * * * Former warrior-diplomat Al Haig has died, aged 85. The obituaries are noting his unique contribution to the English language: The Washington Post’s George F. Will called him as “an aerobic instructor for the English language, making it twist and stretch.” […]
Families are tricky. They stretch to outer limits our private sense of responsibility. You are Diligent. You work hard and honestly, you treat everyone fairly, you are generous towards friends and family, but you dislike being exploited or ‘expected’ to help others who don’t do all they can to help themselves. […]
A good round-up from Michael Ledeen on the moves by the nervous Iran regime to curb protests: One of the most fascinating aspects of the current phase of the Iranian revolution is that many of those arrested knew it was coming, had the opportunity to hide, but chose to go […]
Ralph Peters praises the ruthlessness of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner who has authorised the expansion of ‘drone’ attacks on key terrorist suspects overseas: The Pakistani Taliban is losing CEOs faster than Detroit … This is another Amazon Space issue. The best (if not only) way to deal with individual […]
One of the pleasures of writing this website is that new e-friends appear, usually people who know all sorts of things I don’t know. Thus I am pleased to share with you this interesting contribution about Google/China and US/Switzerland as sent to me from a reader who closely follows IT security questions and […]
Some of you may have read my paper on the idea of Amazon Space. If not, please do so. The simple idea is that in a world divided between large areas of lawfulness and diminishing but significant spaces defined by their unlawfulness, new doctrines are needed for protecting the networks […]
Mark Steyn has it: Whenever aspiring writers ask me for advice, I usually tell ’em this: Don’t just write there, do something. Learn how to shingle a roof, or tap-dance, or raise sled dogs. Because if you don’t do anything, you wind up like Obama and Fineman – men for […]
A most satisfactory and philosophically interesting week in the United States. The startling Scott Brown victory in the Massachusetts election for the ex-Kennedy seat in the US Senate has prompted an avalanche of analysis. Obviously it was an unqualified calamity for the Democrats. But what conclusions do Democrats and Republicans alike […]
Here is the as yet unofficial transcript of part of Alastair Campbell’s session with the Chilcot Inquiry. Quick work to get it up so fast. Others have dumped on the performance of this New Labour eel yesterday. See Paul Waugh describing how my old boss Rod Lyne did the business: Campbell […]
A reader says nice things about my long posting on the Copenhagen Negotiating Disaster (for the EU at least) but also asks a terrific question: A remarkable piece of analysis, Charles, with fascinating insights for the outsider. I detect a theme emerging in your posts – a sort of neo-realpolitik […]
