Reader Alban is tenacious. He says that the 1974 SFRY Constitution differed from the 1946 Constitution; the later model did not have Kosovo as part of Serbia. Er, wrong. Article 2: ̐
Reader Alban is tenacious. He says that the 1974 SFRY Constitution differed from the 1946 Constitution; the later model did not have Kosovo as part of Serbia. Er, wrong. Article 2: ̐
Here is an interesting analysis with lots of examples from ESI describing how the sulky tricephalic Bosnian donkey will in fact lurch forward if the juicy European carrot (in this case visa-free travel for all Bosnians) is big and juicy and close enough. All sorts of laws and inter-Entity harmonisations have […]
Labour are busy with their latest Dead Cat (as I gather it is known in the trade) strategising. The Dead Cat plan is simple. You identify a scrap of bad meat somewhere near your opponent’s house. Then start screaming at the top of your voice that your opponent has a […]
Various readers are continuing assorted Balkan wars in their comments on this site. It always happens, sooner or later. Keep it cool, folks. Reader Alban (pro-Kosova) makes a strong (and wrong) claim: Kosova never has been part of Serbia. Under Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) it had the status […]
Here is Keith Hennessey surpassing himself by explaining stunningly complex climate change issues in a way real people like us can follow. This sort of brilliant work is noteworthy because it is just the sort of thing top decison-makers will in fact read. None of them have time to absorb […]
Here is a well researched and perceptive bit of work by Anne McElvoy about the life and times of Sir John Sawers as he takes over at MI6. And about some of the unhappiness at his appointment from some top secret people sufficiently peeved to moan to a journalist about it. […]
Ben Emmott in the Times says that if Ireland (as expected) says Yes to the Lisbon Treaty, the UK Conservatives need to shut up and move on. Not that he is too impressed with the way the issue has been dealt with: The whole charade should anger anyone who cares […]
More on that self-proclaimed independent EU-sponsored Report on the 2008 Georgia conflict. Points of interest from it, as they come: The Mission had no access to intelligence reports: a serious setback, I’d say. Not least since the whole business was launched because of what Georgia + Washington ‘really’ thought Moscow […]
The Polanski story is creating a buzz, as one might expect. My friend Anne Applebaum has been criticised for not declaring an interest. And as for Whoopi Goldberg who helpfully gives us a new feministic distinction between ‘rape’ and ‘rape-rape’?! More here. This is an easy one. What Polanski did was […]
A new legal move in the Czech Republic to ask the Czech Constitutional Court to opine on the Lisbon Treaty is pretty damn big news. The effect of this could be to delay final entry into force of the Treaty until after a UK general election, when a newly elected Conservative […]
