For no obvious reason the Browser is recycling a strange 2010 interview with Lord Alerdice, who played a significant part in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. The subject is about terrorism, causes of: For me it isn’t a moral term. In other words, I am not using terrorism to […]
My short piece remonstrating with Guardian literary critic Nicholas Lezard on the fact that he writes at length in critical terms about Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged while admitting he hasn’t read it has prompted a businesslike reply from Mr Lezard himself: Dear Mr Crawford, I am, indeed, a literary critic. […]
One of the point of this blog is that I write in detail only about things I know something about. So if you want detailed analysis of politics in Latin America or Sri Lanka or Nigeria (and above all in the Middle East) you’ll just have to go somewhere else. […]
My latest Commentator piece tries in very broad terms to explain exactly why it is foolish to say that Libertarians and Socialists are ‘bedfellows’: Basically, there are only two forms of government: (a) Those (very few) deriving explicitly from the US Declaration of Independence: Governments are instituted among Men, deriving […]
Richard Murphy is a hyperactive socialist/collectivist whose main role in life is to expand the state in all directions. He even calls this expansion ‘courageous‘: The result is that the Courageous State needs to have policies to: Constrain the world of feral finance that has so dominated the economies […]
A (very) rare exclusive screening of King Vidor’s The Fountainhead starring Gary Cooper is coming up in London’s Baker Street on 16 September: “It’s easy to run to others. It’s so hard to stand on one’s own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own […]
Update: this DT Blogs piece makes it to The Browser My latest piece over at Telegraph Blogs looks at how state A sends a message to state B. Not as easy a task as you might think: Diplomats have mulled over these questions for a good 800 years and more. […]
My various postings and pronouncements on the rights and wrongs of the UK government’s ‘threat’ to remove the diplomatic immunity of the Ecuador Embassy in London to enable J Assange to be nabbed have prompted Brian Barder to weigh in. And when Brian weighs in, he does so thoroughly. His […]
One of the problems with teleprompters is that you the speaker can’t improvise easily. You’re stuck with the pre-agreed script loaded on to the machine. Those words scroll inexorably across your screen, and if you deviate from them it is not easy for the person doing the scrolling to fathom out what […]
Walter Russell Mead produces smart analysis and informed wisdom at a rate that puts the rest of us to shame. He blogs at The American Interest. Try any of his recent pieces and marvel at the breadth of his knowledge and insight. This one on the problems facing Europe caught […]
