Former UK Ambassador at the UN Sir Jeremy Greenstock has caused a stir with his various observations on the BBC about Hamas – summary here by Paul Waugh. In the vast noise the Israel/Palestine/Gaza/Hamas generates it is next to impossible to keep any discussion coherent. See any Comments thread after any […]
PJ O’Rourke starts at a canter (h/t Instapundit): Is it too soon to talk about the failed Obama presidency just because Obama isn’t president yet? Accelerates: Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned dinner, let’s get the dog to cook." And ends at a […]
Samizdata folk are having a lively exchange over Perry de Havilland’s ringing call for Disunity in conservative ranks. His core demand: I am not calling for the ‘libertarianisation’ of the Republican party along the lines I would actually like, just for the party’s rationalisation. I am in essence calling for […]
The BBC notes that the legacy of the Cuban socialist miracle is ‘complex’. This is just what Serbian Communist leader Draza Markovic used to say about the problems in Kosovo in the early 1980s: "the situation is still complicated, even complex!" The BBC on Cuba: Fifty years on, the legacy […]
So many entries. So little time. Remember the BBC puff for kitschy little red Mass Murderer badges? Or the oh-so-cool Che poster picture as part of a free ad for Fidel Castro? Both worthy entries. But, in a late surge, the BBC reaches a new height. Can a supposedly serious […]
Unabashed by the contrast between Real Life and his September prediction (how far ago that seems already) that McCain would win in a landslide, Spengler looks again at Morality, Economics and Demography. And makes some hefty points about so-called free markets: There is something profoundly disingenuous about the pure free-market […]
Professor Anatol Lieven gets over-excited: A fraction of the trillion and a half dollars now spent on rescuing western economies from the consequences of their elites’ greed and recklessness would have been enough to have greatly reduced African misery, stabilised Pakistan and other Muslim states – or put a human […]
The latest issue of DIPLOMAT carries my droll article on diplomatic leaks down the ages. Written before the recent Damian Green MP drama here in Parliament. But perhaps none the worse for that. Has that much changed since Rome in 1870? Thus: One of the USA’s most brilliant Ambassadors, George […]
How to annoy people these days? Make the case that the arrest of Damian Green MP was, for different reasons, reasonable: Thus, what we have is a situation where a civil servant has been acting entirely in breach of the core principles of government administration, passing confidential information to a […]
I dimly remember getting a fountain pen or something cool like that for my sixteenth birthday. But things are different these days in the USA.
