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Croatia’s legendary publication Feral Tribune has closed for financial reasons. Feral was an outstanding and courageous source of scurrilous but hard-hitting attacks in the 1990s on Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and his close associates, who strove mightily to close down the paper. In 1997 Robin Cook flew from Banja Luka […]
From this vast distance it is not easy to follow the procedural manoeuvres of the majestic and variegated Canadian ‘Human Rights’ industry in its pursuit of Mark Steyn. But Mark and Maclean’s magazine looks to have won one handy free speech victory, with the Canadian Human Rights Commission dropping its case against them: […]
Irish voters! Read this terrifying piece describing how the Culture Committee of the EU Parliament wants to deal with Bloggers "with malicious intentions or hidden agendas" who "pose a danger". Then go and vote. You know which way.
The EP Culture Committee blogging menace nonsense (below) points up a factor in the Lisbon Treaty which is not really discussed. Namely that as more and more ‘areas’ become subject to voting rather than consensus at the EU level, member states lose two things: the right to block at the […]
Busy times in the ever-complicated relationship between Poland and Germany. Robert Kubica becomes the first Pole to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix race – driving a BMW in Montreal. Then Germany beat Poland 2-0 in Euro 2008, with Polish-born Lukasz Podolski scoring twice – for Germany! Before the match […]
Lest you think that Mark Steyn is nothing but a crazed Canadian demographer, have a re-run of this utterly classic piece of work. His famous interview from 2018 with Monica Lewinsky’s dress: To be honest, I was lucky to get the interview. The dress was supposed to be doing the […]
This is a perceptive argument that B Obama has brought together the techniques of 1960s’ New Left/Marxist ‘community mobilisation’ with networked Internet cleverness. But allowing the masses to ‘own the campaign’ has been accomplished in part by letting all sorts of extremists (anti-semitic, communist, Jihadist and others) rant away prolifically – on Obama’s own community website! […]
What do this outlandish ‘banning’ of a Transformer t-shirt from an aircraft and the Mark Steyn Human Rights Tribunal trial in Canada have in common? This. In US and English law there is a so-called eggshell skull doctrine. This has it that if one commits a tort or crime, one has […]
Guido and Iain Dale are riding high in visitors to their respective websites. Big numbers, comparing favourably if not better with similar sites run by ‘mainstream’ media outlets. Increasingly they all feed off each other, of course. Why not? For far too long a tiny number of media pundits have […]
