Austin Bay mulls over the (as usual) limited options facing South Korea in responding to North Korea’s role in sinking a South Korean ship and killing 46 sailors. This seems a good scheme: Explicit naval tit-for-tat, which exposes and exploits North Korean strategic weakness before a global audience, has more political […]
As readers will have noticed, someone describing himself/herself as George Dutton is now following this site closely and commenting with oh-so-clever remarks celebrating Socialism. He quotes from a remarkable essay by Albert Einstein on Why Socialism? from 1949. Here is Albert fretting over the survival of the human race (as well […]
Will the Eurozone move to help the UK if we fall into difficulties? Hell no: Jean-Pierre Jouyet, a former French Europe minister and the current chairman of France’s financial services authority, yesterday predicted only "God would help" a rudderless Britain after it snubbed its euro zone neighbours. "There is not […]
Here is a brisk piece I wrote over at Business and Politics, denouncing Labour schemes to loot football clubs to promote the ‘mutualisation’ of public services and the ‘democratisation’ of football club ownership. This is so repulsive and insane an idea that one scarcely knows where to start. OK, I’ll […]
For all those of you rightly obsessed with Malta and Bosnia, let’s not forget that Poland has a Presidential election again this year. These happen every five years. A President may serve only two terms. So, question. Will President Lech Kaczynski win again? His first victory in 2005 came when […]
Welcome Iain Dale readers. * * * * * Am I missing something here, or is this beyond stupidity? Two German members of the supposedly liberal ALDE group in the European Parliament: We cannot leave it to private rating agencies to decide whether Europe is creditworthy. By lowering Greece’s creditworthiness […]
A lively effort is being mounted to raise money to secure the release of one Nick Hogan, who has been imprisoned here in the UK for not paying a £3000 fine and a further £7000 in costs for failing to stop people smoking in his pub. Try Old Holborn, who […]
Yesterday in London I was on the stage at the Polish Cultural Centre in West London for a discussion about Solidarity – Thirty Years After. Others on the panel were Wladyslaw Frasyniuk (former top Solidarity activist and former political prisoner turned politician) – someone whose lively intelligence has left him […]
John Mauldin of Thoughts from the Frontline writes a powerful weekly email on economic and investment themes to which one million people have subscribed. As have I. Because it is free. His latest one is superb, disentangling different expert pessimistic and not-so-pessimistic analyses about the problems of the Eurozone, Greece […]
An elegant essay by Theodore Dalrymple on legendary lofty US economist J K Galbraith. Needless to say, what caught my eye was reference to a book JGK wrote in 1958, Journey to Poland and Yugoslavia. As a fine, prosperous East Coast liberal from a democracy, JKG was disinclined to see […]
