This is so grisly an analysis of how President Obama is whittling the Clintons down to very little, it might almost be true. Hence Hillary Clinton’s tentative responses on North Korea?
This is so grisly an analysis of how President Obama is whittling the Clintons down to very little, it might almost be true. Hence Hillary Clinton’s tentative responses on North Korea?
Does the very presence of US forces in South Korea encourage South Korean complacency and North Koream truculence, a version of the moral hazard problem? Some pertinent thoughts from Johnathan Pearce at Samizdata on this subject, plus some excellent comments from Subotai Bahadur (my emphasis): There is the additional possibility, […]
The goings-on in and around North Korea and its nuclear ambitions takes us back to our old friend Negotiation. See eg this early piece I wrote in April last year about Power and Purpose: Part of getting what you want is projecting a sense of Power and Purpose, so that when […]
Is here. It links to Brian Barder arguing against the very idea of any UK referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and being struck that even many Labour List readers do not agree with him (Note: Barder long sentence advisory warning) Over on the always interesting Labour List blog, this post (reproduced […]
The claim by the defence of Radovan Karadzic that he had a deal with Richard Holbrooke ("This is it – leave public and political life in Republika Srpska and you won’t have to go to the Hague." "OK…") is back in the news again. Back in mid-1996, only a few months […]
Here is a fascinating article about the evolution of legal standards in tackling piracy several hundred years ago: Out of this unfolding of events emerged the Act for the More Effectual Suppression of Piracy, initially introduced by parliament in 1700. This act permitted colonial governments to try and execute pirates […]
Via a couple of Dizzy postings about Nadine Dorries and her blog (being taken down), I stumble via some acrimonious comments into the jungle of claims and counter-claims involving various leading British bloggers (including Iain Dale, Guido and Tim Ireland) feuding with each other. When such online rows start, they typically mutate […]
An interesting article in the Guardian about the use of hi-tech tracing technology to help put pressure on Uzbekistan to stop forced child labour in the vast Uzkek post-Soviet cotton fields: "We became aware of real problems in Uzbekistan," said Alan Wragg, Tesco’s clothing technical director. "Government-organised forced child labour […]
The office of Speaker of the British House of Commons is a position laden with world-class Tradition and Authority. Alas we have the current occupant, Michael Martin. A man from humble origins who is just not up to it. Legend has it that on an official Speaker visit to Poland he and […]
Eeek. According to Nick Cohen in the Observer the Cameron Conservatives are heading for the Outer Darkness: After the European elections, British Conservatives will leave the company of Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, Fredrik Reinfeldt and the other moderate centre-right leaders who gather under the banner of European People’s party. Although […]
