The UN Security Council has supported a plan for the deployment of the EULEX mission in Kosovo. Belgrade is happy, since the planned deployment is ‘status neutral’, ie it does not give in principle (and practice?) any encouragement to the idea that Kosovo is now independent. Which is why various […]
So little time, so many genders, so much immorality. Dr. Sa’d Al-’Inzi: A man is not allowed to expose the area between his navel and his knees. Nobody is allowed to see his private parts. Someone who goes to these parlors and exposes this part of his body is, undoubtedly, […]
Carne Ross (former British diplomat) urges urgent reform of the UN: It is depressing how little creative thinking goes on at the UN to remedy its many deficits. Diplomats posted to the UN tend to come and go for three or four-year tours making little impression, and often leave demoralised […]
The victory of England over Germany in the friendly football international this week brought back memories of this odious memory: the England team giving Nazi salutes when England played Germany in Berlin in May 1938. According to some versions it was Sir Nevile Henderson, HM Ambassador in Germany, who applied […]
I dimly remember getting a fountain pen or something cool like that for my sixteenth birthday. But things are different these days in the USA.
A reader asks: Do you approve of the current US and UK policy to appease nationalist Albanian threats of violence? There may be people out there who do not follow the Kosovo problem with close attention. Just to remind them that the long-running attempt to the EU’s bright young Laura […]
As world leaders grapple with rival ideas for tackling the global financial crisis, keep an aghast eye on what the EU under France is up to in redefining European security. President Sarkozy and President Medvedev have come up with a proposal to hold a major OSCE summit in mid-2009 aimed at […]
Proposition 8 passed in California, defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Who backed it? People like these: There are so many other groups in the exit polling that voted for Prop 8 overwhelmingly (as in, more than 60%): * The elderly (65+) * […]
Maybe not: Think about it this way: if aging hack John McCain, unable to enthuse his own base, running after a disastrous eight years of a George W Bush Administration in the face of an utterly hostile mainstream media, a collapsing economy, and the as-yet undetermined aftermath of an unpopular foreign […]
One of the best things about writing a blog is that like an exotic plant it somehow grows in strange directions and shapes and thereby introduces you to all sorts of new people round the planet. Such as someone who saw my post on PM Qualities and posted a positive comment, Andrew Cooper. Check […]
