(Transparency Note: I met Jonah on a cruise back in 2005 and enjoyed his ideas and company. But we were not lovers.) What to make of Jonah Goldberg’s remarkable (if long) new book Liberal Fascism? Plenty. His basic thesis boils down to three propositions: First, non-trivial parts of today’s Western Leftist/progressive style and […]
And how does someone trying to follow US Presidential campaign footage on TV or via YouTube tell these days? Update: the mighty kos himself weighs in. Very dark… Update: Dirty Politics!
One of the great cliches about Cuba is that despite all its human rights and other abuses it sure has a fine free health service which the rest of us should admire. Really? One of the ways in which any good health service keeps effective surely must be ready access to […]
How to assess the life and works of Fidel Castro? CNN has the line. Castro was a not too bad fellow who did good things for ‘social reform’ in Cuba and who was praised in some circles for standing up to the United States. Oh, and he was criticized for […]
This is a short sharp analysis of seemingly plummeting prospects of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Party race in the US Presidential elections. What will the markets say if she somehow recovers?
Having spent most of my working life in or dealing with societies suffering from the consequences of communism, I have tried to work out what it is communists really believe(d) in. Communists’ immediate policy goals are clear enough. To run and above all control everything on exclusively their own terms with […]
The FCO like all British government departments these days emits profusely all manner of Targets, Strategies, Strategic Priorities, Objectives, Road-maps, Performance Indicators and the rest. Yet amidst all this feverish management-babble designed allegedly to measure and assess Outputs and Outcomes there is very little about one vital and time-consuming job […]
