The Week has no online edition, which makes it annoyingly difficult to read it for free. Still, its latest Wit & Wisdom column makes magnificent reading, quoting this famous passage as it appeared in The Times: … [the egregious] Common Agricultural Policy (the “most stupid immoral state-subsidised policy in human history, […]
Things are accelerating as the scale of the Eurozeone’s self-delusion emerges. And read this good piece by German TV anchor Tom Buhrow in the IHT: Most European governments wanted the cake and eat it, too — remain nation-states politically while expecting solidarity economically. That’s like having your own checking account and […]
An elegant posting by Tim Worstall on how far the UK Lib Dems are ‘really’ Left or Right: … the OB Lib Dems are most certainly not of the left. They’re of the right: do what is necessary to get the economy right, use markets wherever possible, get the economics of […]
I was in Geneva on manoeuvres with ADRg Ambassadors and poised to return to the UK when we heard about the volcano dust problem. So we took a train from Geneva to Paris, stayed overnight in a modest but very helpful Paris hotel, then went by train to Caen and […]
Tim Worstall puts us (and the Guardian) out of our confused misery with a simple lesson in Greek debt. He explains that two factors are in play: How much debt one has When one has to pay it back Imagine you have a number of credit card debts and loans. Some payments […]
I have written extensively on this site about what the Katyn Massaces represents for Poland, for Russia, for Europe – and for civilisation. Type Katyn into the site’s Search function and get the links. See for example this extract from my final FCO telegram, sent to London from Warsaw as […]
Here (below) is the text of my appreciation of the life and times of Lech and Maria Kaczynski, now up at Radio Free Europe. Welcome Steyn Online readers. * * * * * I attended a smart Warsaw dinner party in 2006, not long after the Kaczynski twins and their Law […]
The Labour Party in Malta is again coming under withering fire – from Daphne: … somebody with a Big Brain came up with the idea of taking the now infamous image of a Labour ballerina (mittilkless aspiration) originally designed for a billboard and using it for those giant cubes they […]
UPDATE Welcome Guido readers. This (below) was written before the Smolensk disaster. My considered thoughts on Lech Kaczynski and what his death means for Poland will follow. * * * * * Always a pleasure to penetrate deep into Guardian territory and plant a different flag. As here today, where […]
Denis returns to the charge in a comment on my previous posting: I think Charles gives the game away when he says he will vote Conservative. I campaign against Islamist bigotry and regularly criticise Iran and other oppressive majority Muslim nations in the House of Commons. But the notion that […]
