A powerful essay by Angelo Codevilla looking closely at the dominant ruling class in the USA: Who are these rulers, and by what right do they rule? How did America change from a place where people could expect to live without bowing to privileged classes to one in which, at […]
A new step in the Serbia/Kosovo story: the UN General Assembly has passed a unanimous resolution whose sense is to open ‘dialogue’ between Belgrade and Pristina supported by the European Union. Note that the BBC can not even get the simplest facts right. Its report says that: The European Union […]
Via Tim Worstall, this magnificent essay by Michael Lewis in Vanity Fair about the cultural and other problems which have led Greece far down the road of folly. It’s quite long, but all the more devastating for that as the writer follows the mysteries of corruption and tax-cheating into almost unbelievable […]
That EU financial crisis – is it about sovereign debts owed by individual countries, or the credibility of banks elsewhere which prop up that debt? – rumbles on. Take Greece: Greece is undergoing what amounts to an IMF austerity package but without the IMF cure of debt restructuring or devaluation […]
Remember the EU’s financial crisis which threatened to bring down the Eurozone a few months ago? No. Anyway, according to Baseline Scenario it is still waiting to pounce, this time on Ireland which is often held up as the right way to deal with Eurozone member states’ debt problems: The […]
The Daily Telegraph reports that the new EU Ambassador In Washington Joao Vale de Almeida is bent on elbowing out of the way such diplomatic minnows as HM Ambassador Nigel Sheinwald: Mr Vale de Almeida has stressed to Washington officials and politicians that under the EU’s’ Lisbon Treaty, he has […]
On this site I have warned readers about the pernicious impact of the EU’s several attempts to limit working hours by law, especially in the UK National Health Service. See eg here. And here. My best friend happens to be an NHS consultant. He has warned me for years about […]
A London court has rejected Serbia’s application to get former Bosnian/Bosniac leader Ejup Ganic extradited to Belgrade to face charges on the infamous Dobrovoljacka Street killings in Sarajevo in 1992. The word ‘rejected‘ perhaps does not do justice to District Judge Timothy Workman’s demolition of Serbia’s case. Perhaps ‘blew to smithereens beyond […]
Toy Story 3 is just superb. Go and see it. One highlight is Barbie abruptly hollering out one of the greatest ideas of Thomas Jefferson: Authority should derive from the consent of the governed; not from the threat of force Hurrah! Yet … what if those governing start off that way, […]
Welcome Browser and other new readers. After reading my thoughts below, check out this piece I wrote back in 2008 about inat. If you don’t understand inat, you can’t understand Kosovo or Serbia or anything about former Yugoslavia. Sorry, but there it is. * * * * * The International […]
