James Barbour from deep Moscow has tagged me in a new Internet game of One’s Three Inspirational Communicators. The idea originated as (of course) a New Wave PR meme, but is none the worse for that. So at the risk of being earnestly irrelevant as the world’s financial system totters, here goes. What […]
Right now, for me, gender trumps everything else. Therefore, what?
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 […]
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 […]
On the subject of feminism, here is Naomi Wolf gushing on the psychological gains to be had from shrouding her body, Muslim woman-style: I experienced it myself. I put on a shalwar kameez and a headscarf in Morocco for a trip to the bazaar. Yes, some of the warmth I encountered […]
Welcome Instapundit readers. While we Crawfs have been travelling the Georgia story has moved on, to the point where French President Sarkozy has been helping broker some sort of truce and possible peace plan. No end of commentaries too, of course, many dwelling on what this episode tells us […]
Arab men should realize that they do not have a monopoly over the glory of either life or death. A woman can love in a much more noble way than them, and she can die in a more magnificent way than them. Is not there some or other law against […]
Imagine you are the Foreign Office in London. A bit of a wildcat in your youth. Yet still squeaky keen to show Relevance and Cleverness. Egad! An idea dawns. Let London lead the praise for the sybaritic delights of latter-day Western personal freedom! British Embassies should all fly the LGBT […]
This polemic by Simon Jenkins hits many nails on the head. Anyone who has seen the ‘international community’ in action in a troublespot can not but be dismayed. Generous tax-free salaries and fleets of expensive 4x4s contrast luridly with the surrounding poverty. Armies of local and imported female ‘sex-workers’ setting up camp nearby. […]
Following my post about Russia’s dire demographic trends along comes this sad story about suicides in the Russian armed forces. All armies have these problems and do their best to play down the problem. The British Army in Bosnia had a significant number of suicides. One theory had it that […]
