Michael Yon has built up a great reputation for going to look at tough places under his own steam and reporting on them to an Internet readership. Here he is following a major US diplomatic push in Asia (not something much covered in the UK). US Defence Secretary Gates talks […]
Craig Murray weighs in hard against what he calls Iain Dale’s stinking hypocrisy: Most of you appear to read this blog at work, as readership drops at the weekend. So please do look at this piece I did on the really appalling hypocrisy of Tory blogger Iain Dale: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/05/iain_dale_is_a.html#comments Iain has […]
Twice a year Gordon Brown fills his party’s sails with pride. His tornado of facts and figures magics up images of untold national wealth and success. Sixty per cent more personal wealth! Most chancellors sound as if chunks of their speech are penned by officials, not quite convincing in their […]
Newspapers deliver news you to in an environmentally unfriendly, complex and redundant way. They then charge you for reading it. A model crashing before our tired eyes. But suppose … things are turned round. What if they gave you news for free via the Internet – and charged you instead […]
Iain Dale links to this piece drawing attention to a draft law in the USA which (it is said) poses a major threat to blogs and the social web. The draft law says: Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or […]
Back from Sweden. There the blogosphere is a mighty force in Swedish society. In a country of a bit more than 9 million people there look to be nearly 250,000 blogs. It looks as if the government there are struggling to work out how to deal with this formidable citizen […]
Always good to see a writer going for a big shot and sending the ball loftily out of the ground. Meet Nick Cohen weighing in to the current British leadership. But his concluding point is the key one: But Britain isn’t a police state or anything like one. In real […]
Here is Bagehot at the Economist on why the Internet’s role in UK politics is mainly destructive: But it, and especially YouTube, are at least becoming an important destructive element in British politics, able as they are to cultivate that most poisonous and final of political responses: ridicule. Take three […]
The animation movie Wall-e depicts in stunning colours a silent abandoned Earth buried deep in towering human garbage, with only a perky little garbage-crushing robot plus a friendly cockroach moving about. An environmentalist metaphor for human destructiveness! Wrong. BBC radio today carried a story about tinned food, mentioning in passing […]
Here is a fine article by Richard Fernandez on the T-word. He takes up an article by Jeff Jacoby which points up the moral dilemmas in all this: Suppose the CIA had been denied permission to use brutal interrogation tactics, and Al Qaeda had consequently gone on to murder thousands […]
