Things have been quiet here at this for a few days over Christmas, and are going to be quiet here for a few days more as we enter the final throes of moving house. The current house looks like a total wreck as we try to sort things out and […]
Things have been quiet here at this for a few days over Christmas, and are going to be quiet here for a few days more as we enter the final throes of moving house. The current house looks like a total wreck as we try to sort things out and […]
Craig Murray as ever tries to steer a course which no-one else has ever steered. And crashes. Here he is talking about the impact of the weather: A combination of crazed right wing thinking and crazed left wind thinking, so typical of the UK, is why our airports are rubbish… […]
In central London yesterday I walked past some of these odious so-called students. Some of them from the evergreen rent-an-idiot Socialist Workers tendency had mass-produced posters: We Demand Free Education The fine example of Cambridge student vandal Charlie Gilmour, rich and pampered beyond belief, shows us what ‘education’ does for […]
This afternoon I was briefly on LBC with James Whale who asked some questions about the impact of Wikileaking. My core points ran something like this. All organisations including LBC and firms which LBC listeners worked for had some reasonable expectation of privacy. Governments were no different. Some of the […]
A reader has sent me this trenchant message about the state of affairs in Slovenia concerning justice for the victims of communist atrocities: Your article "Regret is not enough in Slovenian tragedy" is spot on as is your analysis of the political situation in the Central European country of Slovenia […]
Exhibit A: Trust: the behavioural challenge PwC Point of View paper, Oct 2010 Exhibit B: The Rational Optimist Let’s start with Exhibit A, a recent paper put out by PwC which looks at the role of Trust in corporate culture. Underpinning the analysis is the “ethicability” methodology advanced by Prof Roger Steare, a fellow Business and […]
Update: see now also this Economist piece by Edward Lucas. * * * * * Yesterday I attended an ecumenical Mass of Reparation in Great Missenden, organised with the strong support of the British Slovene Society led by Keith Miles. The Mass was held to pay tribute to the thousands of […]
Iain Dale calls for a debate on the options for limiting strikes in economic sectors which provide ‘essential services’: Trade unions have an important part to play in trying to represent their members’ interests and individual rights should not be trampled on by the state. But there has to be […]
Charlotte Gore’s piece on 15 October is being widely quoted. Rightly. Because with unerring precision she drills down deep into the moral darkness of welfare policy as currently practised: Think about how people feel! Think about all the things they could do with that money, or that job, or learn […]
Readers of this site usually have some interest in central Europe and/or the great battles of ideas which ‘Europe’ represents. One of those battles, perhaps the central battle in that it defines the intellectual space upon which all the others are fought, is the ‘comparison’ between Communism and Nazism, between […]
