Remember former Ambassador Craig Murray’s problems in getting a publisher for his new book because it might attract a heavy libel writ? He is pressing on by publishing it on/via the Internet. Let the legal fun and games begin.
Remember former Ambassador Craig Murray’s problems in getting a publisher for his new book because it might attract a heavy libel writ? He is pressing on by publishing it on/via the Internet. Let the legal fun and games begin.
So many entries. So little time. Remember the BBC puff for kitschy little red Mass Murderer badges? Or the oh-so-cool Che poster picture as part of a free ad for Fidel Castro? Both worthy entries. But, in a late surge, the BBC reaches a new height. Can a supposedly serious […]
Professor Anatol Lieven gets over-excited: A fraction of the trillion and a half dollars now spent on rescuing western economies from the consequences of their elites’ greed and recklessness would have been enough to have greatly reduced African misery, stabilised Pakistan and other Muslim states – or put a human […]
You have to doff the cap to some of the Guardian’s leading columnists. They come out day after day, whirling their delicate arms in a pugnacious defiant way, only to be knocked flat on to the floor by Tim Worstall: As we’re all surveying the rubble we’re agreeing that the root […]
The Guardian (Adrian Pabst) helpfully gives us one, by blowing thick layers of dust off the ideas of one Karl Polyani, a Hungarian who in the 1940s (says the Guardian) repudiated market liberalism and state socialism. What he advocated, according to this bewilderingly strange article, is this: Crucially, Polanyi’s vision […]
I belatedly add a word on the tragic utterances by Hazel Blears MP on the quality of public life and blogging: But mostly, political blogs are written by people with a disdain for the political system and politicians, who see their function as unearthing scandals, conspiracies and perceived hypocrisy. I […]
The core ideas from the Stalinist psychology proclaimed by the bland villain Ellsworth Toohey in the Fountainhead: Kill man’s sense of values. Kill his capacity to recognise greatness. Great men can’t be ruled … Don’t deny the concept of greatness. Destroy it from within. Set up standards of achievement open to […]
A curious article in the FT by John Gapper argues that the mainstream US media have moved to the Left to reflect the ‘national mood’. Surely it is more a determined attempt by pro-Democrat tendencies in these outlets to shift the national mood so that their candidate wins? The Gapper analysis […]
Blogging latterly light, or to be precise nil – I have been on diplomatic training expeditions (as trainer) in Brussels and London. Interesting trying to explain to young diplomats how to set about working out how to respond in policy and media terms to a serious event. My approach: whatever […]
Via an agitated Guido, more on seeming collectivist anxiety about the impact in High Places of personal freedom . Namely Culture Secretary Andy Burnham: The time has come for perhaps a different approach to the internet," he said. "I want to even up that see-saw, even up the regulation [imbalance] […]
