A reader takes issue with me on my analysis of Georgian Chess Moves: All these moves and counter moves are more or less based on the stupid theories inside the textbooks of International Relations and Political Science. There is no deep knowledge in these textbooks, just insipid informations and postulates. […]
I previously have quoted the famous chess aphorism attributed to the hypermodern chess grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch back in 1927, the threat is stronger than the execution: The sense is that one can wait for some time to play a strong chess move, letting the threat that it might happen create […]
Most readers will not be avid enough chess fans, I suspect. And so you may have missed the famous Karpov v Kasparov game from the 1985 World Championship match, when Kasparov’s knight metamorphed into a vast octopus (as Ray Keene put it) on Karpov’s d3 square and throttled Karpov’s position with […]
Craig Murray has a good posting on the important interview between Iain Dale and Michal Kaminski. It just shows where things now stand when a mere Blogger does what no so-called serious MSM journalist has done, and talks to the person at the centre of a controversy to hear what […]
Here is a post by Bloggers Circle member Bracknell Blog complaining in not altogether coherent terms about the fact that an England national team World Cup qualifier football match is be available to a wider audience only by a pay-to-view Internet service: So why is this not being reported as […]
This week I distribute the prizes as guest of honour at my old school, St Albans School. St Albans School is one of the oldest schools in the world. Thirteenth oldest in fact. It was founded in 948 by the Abbot Ulcinus, whom I recall with affection. He was an […]
Is here chez Trixy. It links to an argument of baffling confusion about the BBC by our fellow Britblog Rounder-upper Cabalamat: Redwood is concerned that the BBC, by virtue of being popular, is unfair competition to private sector news websites. To a certain extent, that’s a valid concern. But the economy […]
Guardian writer Jonathan Steele dies, and as such goes straight to Hell. He is greeted warmly by the Devil, who praises his life’s work and offers him a choice of bijou accommodation. Jonathan peers uneasily through three windows. In the first cell is Tito, screaming as he twists impaled on a […]
A lot of issues are a bit like living next to a mountain which is so lofty and all-dominating that you stop noticing the vast shadow it casts, fretting over which tree gives you shade instead. Take this erudite and trenchant essay (h/t Samizdata) about the deep problems of the […]
Ha. Fooled you. You thought you were getting BBRU at Suz Blog hosted by LibDem tough blonde ‘cookie’ Susanne Lamido. But we swapped. So you have me instead. All the best BBRUs try witty themes, or at least cogent categories. This helps those who want to skip the political […]
