Gerard Baker in the Times today makes a weighty case against Hillary and why Democratic voters have rejected her. So she should be put out of her misery: It would not be sexism or chauvinism but the clear-headed decision of a wise statesman, if Senator Obama brought this particular woman’s […]
The BBC website currently has the following headline: Iraqi al-Qaeda commander ‘seized’ Why the inverted commas around the word ‘seized’? There is nothing in the ensuing story to explain why, unless the idea is to imply that the Iraqi forces who say that they have done the seizing are lying or […]
My observations on Poland’s Diplomatic Ball were picked up by Bartosz Weglarczyk’s fine blog in Poland and have raised an eyebrow or two. (Note to non-Polish speakers: every time you see a Z in a Polish text, remember that it serves much the same function as an H in English. Thus cz […]
The website Biased BBC brings together people dissatisfied with tendentious or evidently slanted BBC reporting and analysis. I have had my own moments of supreme dissatisfaction with poor BBC work, so I share their pain. See especially this, when the BBC got it 100% damagingly wrong at the height of […]
The St Valentine’s Day Massacre in gangland Chicago back in 1929 was an unusually awful event which shocked a nation. But what about a busy weekend in Chicago these days? Have our expectations of how people should live and behave been dumbed down? If so, why?
The BBC reports firm action by Iraqi security forces against ‘militants’ in and around Basra as well as various ‘fighters’ in Baghdad. Not long ago these various violent factions were known as ‘insurgents’. Has General Petraeus done so well with his Surge in killing or neutralising a sufficiently large number of ‘insurgents’ […]
Polly Toynbee in the Guardian shrieks today that pink ‘Girlification’ is destroying the ‘hopes of 1968’. She cites National Statistics Office numbers as showing that "women in their 40s earn 20% less per hour than their male counterparts. This is the motherhood penalty – and the more children a woman has, […]
Only now has the full tragic truth emerged about Hillary Clinton’s 1996 visit to Tuzla in Bosnia. This authentic tape shows exactly what happened just as Mrs Clinton was meeting a young Bosnian girl at Tuzla airport. US Ambassdor John Menzies and Bosniac leader Ejup Ganic were both blown away […]
The BBC shows us pretty pictures of a display of Chairman Mao badges at the British Museum: they are said to be "very red, very bright, and very shiny" by Museum Curator Helen Weng. One of the striking features of living in Poland is to visit flea markets such as […]
An article today in the unhappy New York Times purports to describe the Republican Party’s "fractious" divisions around John McCain’s foreign policy ideas. Pragmatists are locked in fierce battle with Neoconservatives, among them the "prominent neoconservative" Robert Kagan. Aaargh. This clumsy piece maybe explains why those NYT share prices have been […]
