At the ASI Politics and the Blog event I had a word with Guido to ask how he saw the secret of his success. He said that his own blogging phenomenon had started to grow strongly in 2005 when he had linked a Labour poster attacking Michael Howard to classic anti-semitic […]
Anne Applebaum says that the Obama/Clinton reset button for US/Russia relations is not working: Anyone who doubts the truth of this need only look at remarks Lavrov himself made last weekend in Brussels … The transcript of his remarks, and those of other Russians attending the same conference, do not capture […]
President Obama’s much-praised message of friendship to Iran got a dusty public response from the Iranians, including some nice imagery: The new US president sends us a Persian New Year greeting message but in the same accuses us again to support terrorism and to be after nuclear weapons," the supreme […]
Here (hat-tip Instapundit) is a superb analysis by Clay Sharky of why newspapers are dying – fast. Clay looks back to the turbulent times of the invention of printing itself, to explain why newspapers arose to deal with a technical problem which no longer exists – how to print and distribute […]
Here is a reasonable-sounding assessment by Jonathan Freedland of the early days of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy: That same official explained it to me like this yesterday: "The Bush administration hindered its own efforts by tying one hand behind its back. Diplomacy is a tool, but they viewed it […]
Who is responsible for the current financial turmoil? Anyone? Here is William Rees-Mogg using a sharp scalpel to cut through to what he says is the Prime Minister’s personal responsibility for a serious misjudgement on Lloyds/HBOS, with massive ramifications down the road for us all: It is bad enough that Gordon Brown […]
My former boss Sir Emyr Jones Parry was put forward to be the new High Representative in Bosnia. But there seems to be a problem. The Russians are unhappy with him, plus the Americans are unhappy with another EU candidate Valentin Inzko from Austria. Poor Bosnia. And Herzegovina. And indeed poor […]
How can the State Department have messed this up? How? No really, how? Hillary Clinton wanted to symbolise a ‘new start’ in US/Russia relations by handing over to Russian Foreign Minister Lvrov a gift of a red button with the Russian word for ‘reset’ on it. Geddit?! They want to reset […]
Vanessa Neumann (DIPLOMAT magazine editor at large) is a white child of the oligarchy connected to Venezuela. So she knows a thing or two about what is going on there.
Here is a good account of where Mark Steyn hit the target and missed a few too when he met the Canadian Standing Committee on Government Agencies of the Ontario legislature recently, to explain why he is unimpressed with the state of free speech in Canada: Looking back, I can’t […]
