++Update++ A warm welcome to readers from Instapundit and The Corner. (There’s nothing like an unexpected Instalanche for improving one’s meagre August web-stats) * * * * * Mark Steyn has some savage things to say about contemporary British life. No doubt he exaggerates. Or does he? How would we know? Thus: The […]
Another sharp piece by Tim Worstall, this time over at Forbes: For labour and product market protectionism, decent public sector wages and benefits, are the “European Model”. And what’s being said here is that you can either have the European Model or you can have the European Currency. His article […]
Here are our holiday snaps. First, no Turkish resort seems to be able to avoid littering the place with freakishly kitsch ancient Greek-style statues. Try this one of Harvest Goddess, with a creepy white head seemingly stuck on a couple of inches out: Not to forget two examples worthy of a […]
More mega-comment web-factories are appearing, before our very eyes. Here is Iain Dale’s new Dale & Co. site, a self-styled current affairs mega-blog. I of course immediately click on World Affairs, and what do I find? Not much, including this curious little piece by one James Chartlton (sic), a trainee […]
I have linked here before to Johann Hari’s deliberate/incompetent/negligent – who knows? – misreading of one of the key passages in Atlas Shrugged: Thus Johann: … her contempt for ordinary people extends so far that when a railway worker in ‘Atlas Shrugged’ decides to punish the wicked socialist government by […]
Here’s a lively little number over at The Commentator, if I say so myself: There is now little joy in this fast unfolding fiasco for any political tendency or EU member state. Everyone has got what they wanted. Yet it is not working out so well, just as in the […]
Always good to be reminded that Europe is not just the wimpy EU or neurotic Balkans. There’s also Ukraine, and where (if anywhere) it fits in to the Bigger Picture. Luckily we have Odessablog’s Blog on the case, watching things with an astute British eye from balmy Crimea. Here’s a […]
Y’all never knew that way back I cut one superb if now little known soul record, did you? Well here’s the proof. Click on the link to listen: "Southern soul in the classic 6/8 tempo, delivered in the grand manner." Listening to it reminded me of this immortal line from […]
ADRg Ambassadors are now gathering nice momentum. After launching ourselves last year as the world’s first Ambassador-level mediation and consultancy panel, we have now reconstituted the group formally into an LLP. The plan is steadily to build the ‘brand’ by emphasising the way we can contribute to high-level corporate diplomacy. One way […]
A powerful article by Yale law professor Jeb Rubenfeld spelling out for the purely foolish the legal issues (such as they are) surrounding the death of Osama Bin Laden. See especially this: The opportunity to surrender is a cherished, civilized and valuable part of warfare. But accepting an enemy’s white flag in […]
