Here is the text of President Obama’s speech in Westminster Hall. Well received more for powerful delivery and ‘feel-good factor’ than substance. Before he left Washington the President gave an important speech on the upheavals across the Arab region and what it all meant for the Middle East. Text here. […]
Here is an astonishing mistake by President Obama – he today signed the Westminster Abbey guest-book using the wrong year. This is much more embarrassing than ex-President Clinton getting his Balkan Ms in a twist earlier this week. Thank goodness these fine leaders are not G W Bush, otherwise we’d all […]
Here is a strange piece at Forbes which I picked up via Twitter by Anne Doyle, an American woman who is big on Powering Up! women in general. She quotes what she asserts to be three ‘stunning examples of the cultural headwinds that women are still up against’. What are […]
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee today published a searching report on the Role of the FCO in UK Government. Here it is. And here is my own trenchant evidence, submitted in writing. I am not, it seems, grand enough these days to merit giving oral evidence. Sob. But read […]
Tim Worstall points us to what he accurately calls a doozy: a piece by Professor Morgan Kelly about the appalling plight facing an Ireland now impaled on assorted policy outcomes which lead straight to national disaster. It’s readable and unambiguous. Thus: Honohan’s miscalculation of the bank losses has turned out to […]
Here is my first-ever piece for a new website, The Commentator, looking at some of the tired and/or snide arguments against the US action against Osama Bin Laden which are now busily infiltrating the BBC and other parts of the British media. Including this passage, on where the Prime Minister hit […]
Archbishop Cranmer surpassed himself today with a gracious and thoughtful piece about the Royal Wedding, to the point of being quoted on Sky TV. Thus: The occasion brings to mind that on 28th May 1533, His Grace declared the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn to be good and […]
Assorted Crawfs are heading West at the weekend for the warmth of Florida where we have our timeshare haha. Of course the Orlando theme-park experience is naff and plastic. On the other hand, it’s top-class naff and plastic where everything works and is geared towards separating you from your money […]
The text of the Libya UNSCR is here. Key point as Sir J Greenstock has just pointed out on Radio Four is this (emphasis added): Authorizes Member States that have notified the Secretary-General, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, and acting in cooperation with the Secretary-General, to take […]
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