I have linked here previously to the wonderful smart writings of Professor Kenneth Anderson on some of the moral and legal issues arising from modern warfare. See eg here. He now looks at legal and ethical issues facing (sic) future robot soldiers. See how he starts by cleverly framing the […]
Here is an excellent and readable analysis of a failed attempt by a Congolese national based in Brussels to persuade a Belgian court to ban the 1930s book Tintin in the Congo on (basically) the grounds that it promoted and still promotes racist hatred. The legal move failed: This is all […]
Update I now also have a piece over at Commentator which elaborates on the material below. * * * * * The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has pronounced on a case brought against Russia by a number of Polish relatives of victims of the Katyn Massacres. Even […]
Here is a nifty piece I wrote about ethicability and Moral DNA back in 2010: Does ethicability methodology do justice to the existential moral value of trading, itself an expression of intrinsic human integrity. Take, for example, Love. Many people these days think that compassion/love require the successful to give […]
Here is a scary piece at the Telegraph bewailing the supposed decline in British diplomats’ foreign language skills. Which draws on some information extracted from the FCO by a Parliamentary Question. And quotes me: Charles Crawford, the former British ambassador to Poland and a speaker of Serbian, Russian, Afrikaans and French has […]
Imagine you’re a senior executive. Then imagine that you have a Problem. You have to address a major conference in SE Asia next week. Public speaking is not your favourite thing. You need some serious senior advice about local sensibilities to make sure you make no ghastly gaffes. Plus the presentation […]
Back in writing business after a few days of running around trying to earn some money. Here is a piece I have written for the Telegraph Blogs on the moral case for the Syrians doing what it takes to defeat the regime oppressing them: One of the iconic principles of the […]
One of the many best things about writing this blog is that people I hardly know or may not have ever met get in touch in all sorts of ways. Thus. Remember my piece a while back about the startling and startlingly bad film Battle of Warsaw 1920? A reader today […]
Over at the Commentator I have been offering some thoughts on grammar and good English: What to make of this claim that grammar lacks "encoded rules"? First, the trivial logic point. It does not follow that because a language evolves and is necessarily always changing, there is not at any […]
Thanks to the democratic miracle of #Twitter I have ended up in an unlikely place, namely the website of Labour Teachers (Labour at the chalkface). I was pointed in this direction by a Tweet picking up on my Commentator piece about teaching grammar. And there I find a really good […]
