The article accompanying the Total Politics UK Political Blogs Top 50 argues that "the right-of-centre hegemony, which has dominated the UK blogosphere for several years, seems to be at an end". Why? Because, according to TP, over half the top 500 political blogs incline to the left. That’s as maybe. Pity so […]
A fine post by Guido, quoting Warren Buffet back in 2002: When Charlie and I finish reading the long footnotes detailing the derivatives activities of major banks, the only thing we understand is that we don’t understand how much risk the institution is running. And if you can’t understand that, then […]
As well as surging into the Total Politics Top 200 UK Political Blogs this blog has made it into the Top 20 UK Libertarian Blogs. I achieved a more than respectable 11th place, amidst distinguished company. Since the libertarian trend in all its many varieties is the shape of the future, […]
Back from a long drive in the heavy rain, passing the time listening to BBC radio Any Questions for the first time in years. (Note for non-Brits: this is a veteran deeply earnest current affairs programme featuring four panellists of differing views answering questions from a live audience from a local […]
A reader reponds to my posting on the Bruges Group meeting: Leaving aside the Grandness or otherwise of the ideas the Bruges Group battles for, what relevance do global Grand Battles of Ideas have to everyday life, and how people try to live it? I happen to think that Ideas […]
Imagine you are the Foreign Office in London. A bit of a wildcat in your youth. Yet still squeaky keen to show Relevance and Cleverness. Egad! An idea dawns. Let London lead the praise for the sybaritic delights of latter-day Western personal freedom! British Embassies should all fly the LGBT […]
Why does our society – and any society worthy of the name – work? Because in principle we make our choices, and respect those who make their choices. Hence most political controversy is, in a reductionist way, about the circumstances in which our choices might be forcibily limited or not for […]
In March 2007 it was drawn to my attention that the authors of a new book The Albanian Question – Reshaping the Balkans had said some most disobliging things about … me! Thus I had been described as “ … a fanatical Yugophile, who had been a member of […]
