Here is my latest tirade over at Business and Politics about Football and Socialism. (Update: link did not work – apologies. Now fixed) I strongly recommend you check it out. If only for the beyond brilliant photograph of Vaniev Runieski, Stevan Gerardin, Gerd Balev and assorted other heroes of Soviet soccer. […]
Yet what is impossible in statistics is more than possible in the real-life atmosphere of collectivist US social psychology (sic). Dr. Haidt argued that social psychologists are a “tribal-moral community” united by “sacred values” that hinder research and damage their credibility — and blind them to the hostile climate they’ve […]
The Egypt drama is producing floods of very shallow analysis waters. Seumas Milne in the Guardian can always be relied upon to give us the Left Dimwit view, complete with added Dave Spart adverbs: The manoeuvres at the top of the regime have transparently been choreographed in Washington … more […]
Here’s an interesting one for those of you interested in the former Yugoslavia space and communism in general. What about the massed archives of the former Yugoslav secret police (UDBA)? Part of the problem with the former Yugoslavia space is that there has been no popular movement in favour of […]
Egypt faces more or less spontaneous mass unrest aimed at toppling President Mubarak, who has been in power too long for anyone’s good. Great swathes of Egypt’s Internet access has been shut down. James Cowie is following: This is a completely different situation from the modest Internet manipulation that took place in […]
Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh. The BBC is cutting some language services on the World Service: The Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian services will be axed, as will English for the Caribbean and Portuguese for Africa, in a bid to save £46m a year Pa kako je to uopste moguce, bre? Sramota! One of the […]
Unsated by Steampunk Palin, you want more buxom feisty American women transforming the world against evil men? Swing by this Guardian analysis by Madeleine Bunting of Hillary Clinton’s feminist foreign policy: On countless occasions since arriving at the state department, Clinton has asserted that the rights of women and girls are now […]
Behold! The mad logic of Dr Clare Gerada, chair of the Royal College of GPs, as reported in the Telegraph: Dr Gerada said healthy individuals who had paid to have the jab on a private patient basis at pharmacies shared some of the blame for the shortages. Many pharmacies have […]
When anything ‘bad’ happens collectivists stampede to call for ‘something to be done’, usually More Government. What a strange attitude that is. It somehow assumes that everything in principle can be regulated, and that a crude cost/benefit analysis run by collectivists is invariably the way to decide what outcome is […]
There comes a time in any house-packing process when the computer is one the last things standing unpacked and has to meet its Fate. That moment has come. I leave you with this wonderful piece by Victor Hanson Davis, about the Left’s raging against reality in Greece, California and many […]
