Help! The US media are being manipulated! By Sarah Palin! And they are getting cross about it. But how convincing is their fury? Not very: When Howie claims he’s getting really really mad, I wonder if he realizes he sounds like Elmer Fudd warning Bugs Bunny "You’re making me vewy […]
Clinton strategist Mark Penn: I think here the media is on very dangerous ground. I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don’t do that for all four of the candidates, they’re on very dangerous ground. I think […]
The piece by PM Gordon Brown in Monitor magazine which gives a positive word to the Obama campaign is here. It has caused a fuss. Bad form for a foreign leader to make remarks of this sort? But listen to this: Labour party sources have suggested may have in fact […]
If you read nothing else this week, read Camille Paglia on Sarah Palin. Firecracker writing plus generous, intelligent insight – and heavy hits landing on all and sundry: It’s heavy weather for Obama fans, as momentum has suddenly shifted to John McCain — that hoary, barnacle-encrusted tub that many Democrats like […]
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, […]
This morning on the radio I stumbled upon veteran UK broadcaster Katherine Whitehorn’s impossibly grand voice condescendingly calling into question the value of markets. Here, if you can face it, is the full text of her Point of View. Off she goes: Political correctness has long been condemned, often unfairly, for the […]
Jon Worth has a couple of thoughtful observations on the farcical European Parliament report which broods on the disruptive role of bloggers. I think that he has a point, of sorts. But the best way to deal with vampires when they pop out is not to assume they are unmenacing just […]
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 […]
In the tsunami of commentary on the Sarah Palin speech, this piece by Michael Ledeen is interesting for non-Americans (and maybe for many Americans too): … For the first time in memory, we have a major candidate who comes from the frontier, and it’s not surprising that the pundits are […]
