Craig Murray’s site links (approvingly) to a site busy collecting signatures in support of indicting Tony Blair for war crimes. And hurrah!, Noam Chomsky has signed up. As has uber-Darwinian Richard Dawkins, another person who seems to think that his lively insight in one area of science requires us to take very […]
Simon Heffer takes a polemical pot-shot at David Cameron, accusing him of succumbing to socialism in his recent Davos speech: … one of the most shallow speeches by a supposedly serious politician that I have ever read. It should also terrify anyone who might feel he or she should vote […]
Back to earth with a bump. Here is a startling puff-piece for radical communism in the Independent. It is all about a neo-Trotskyist postman, one Olivier Besancenot, who it is claimed ‘defies the Trotskyist stereotype’ by having short hair and wearing well-fitting jeans and a black or white T-shirt. His […]
Tom Miller (Widely settled law graduate, novice new media geezer. Apologist for equality. Influenced by both traditional european social-democracy and bits of post-marxism) plunges in: One of the more ridiculous arguments often seen flying around the blogosphere, often from Libertarian Ron Paul fans and other idiots, but just as often […]
Samizdata folk are having a lively exchange over Perry de Havilland’s ringing call for Disunity in conservative ranks. His core demand: I am not calling for the ‘libertarianisation’ of the Republican party along the lines I would actually like, just for the party’s rationalisation. I am in essence calling for […]
That Day by Day cartoon reminds me of a private meeting I had in 1986 with top KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky about a year after he was exfiltrated from Moscow by MI6. We talked about what Gorbachev was trying to do at that time to reform Communism, not least his campaign to […]
Obama won by some six million votes among well over 100 million cast. He also outspent McCain. Massively: The Illinois senator harvested more campaign cash than anyone before him, using both the Internet and traditional high-roller dinners to bring in more than $650 million from some 3 million donors for […]
Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s peerless story of the man who stopped the world. The hero, a brilliant inventor called John Galt, decides to stand up against galloping collectivism and ‘go on strike’, removing his mind and personal energy from the economy. He persuades other key industrialists to follow him. They just […]
Polly Toynbee’s volume rises in direct proportion to the slide in share prices. Her latest rather freewheeling thoughts open thusly: A remarkable 10,000 people marched on Trafalgar Square at the weekend to hold the government to its promise to end child poverty. This somehow reminded me of my visit back […]
This seems to make sense: The fact that government bears such a huge responsibility for the current mess means any response should eliminate the conditions that created this situation in the first place, not attempt to fix bad government with more government. And here’s a plan. When in doubt, do […]
