Physics-free David Miliband: The idea that the UK can maintain its influence in Beijing or Washington or Delhi or Moscow if we marginalise ourselves in Europe is frankly fanciful. In fact I would say the opposite; through leadership in Europe we augment our bilateral ties with other countries. Alone, we […]
And now, a new UK enquiry into the history of the Iraq intervention. Craig Murray is rude about the Chilcot enquiry team, including my former boss Rod Lyne. I myself find it hard to understand why an official who had a senior job in selling UK policy during this period has […]
Mark Mardell, BBC North America editor, looks at the problems the Democrats are having in the USA in explaining their policies to an inceasingly unhappy electorate. He’s not taking sides. No sirree! But read this awesome passage (emphasis added): There is little doubt that the Obama administration is widely perceived […]
A businesslike piece by Ilya Somin about the scale of Communist crimes – and why we must not forget them. It’s the sheer scale of the cruelty which we normally fail to grasp. Cuba? Great health care! Unless you’re murdered by the state: Since coming to power in 1959, Castro’s […]
Honduras itself, according to Ed Morrissey: Zelaya had attempted to use the army to promulgate his illegal referendum on allowing presidents to seek more than one term, with ballots stashed for the purpose. Now he won’t have any authority over the army at all, which will temporarily take its orders […]
Former President of Republika Srpska Biljana Plavsic has left her prison cell in Sweden to return to Belgrade: a land where war criminals are heroes, according to Nenad Pejic: Serbia has been — and continues to be — in a state of denial about the 1990s wars for more than […]
The latest developments on the Torture issue – the speech by MI5 chief Jonathan Evans and then the High Court decision in favour of release of secret US material concerning Binyam Mohamed – are (in their different ways) further important steps towards clarifying how if at all we deal with […]
A great diplomatic flurrying around the latest vote by the UN Human Rights Council in effect condemning Israel. The resolution passed seems to be this one. The resolution welcomed the earlier Goldstone report which condemned human rights abuses by Israel and Hamas alike. But it also contained a long list of condemnations […]
An interesting article on how sprawling Texas is adjusting fast and creatively to energy shortages – by keeping well clear of interstate connections and therefore US federal regulations. H/t Instapundit.
Reader Norman Fraser (not clear to me which of the many NFs out there) writes: I am amazed at how intellectually short-winded most of your posts are. I deduce from the tone and context he does not mean this as a compliment. Although would being intellectually long-winded be much better? I […]
