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 […]
Brian Barder describes a failed attempt to pull together a letter to The Times from a group of British ex-Excellencies about ‘the profoundly mistaken policies of the British and American governments’ towards Russia/Georgia: … some of those who had occupied key positions in the area during their diplomatic careers, and […]
As well as surging into the Total Politics Top 200 UK Political Blogs this blog has made it into the Top 20 UK Libertarian Blogs. I achieved a more than respectable 11th place, amidst distinguished company. Since the libertarian trend in all its many varieties is the shape of the future, […]
Greetings, Guido readers. Back in late 2005 Guardian prima columnista Polly Toynbee was urging the case for Gordon Brown to replace Tony Blair: From now on, the economy will turn upwards and there is no need for Labour to panic – yet, of course, they will. Faced with bad polls, […]
At some point I hope to ’embed’ a link to Chris Muir’s terrific daily cartoon strip, Day by Day. It features four Americans opining wittily on life and politics, not least a curvy young Democrat feminist and her cool dude dark-skinned Republican boyfriend. But others have good walk-on parts. For example, […]
The Oxford Webware maestros are helping me liven things up a bit round here. So (within the frugal limits of my ability to recall how to do it) there could be easier YouTube links and more pictures now and again. Some people ask me, "Did you really have a Mini […]
This (via Daniel Hannan) is absolutely grotesque. What are we being reduced to? And why are we paying taxes to subsidise the madness of thought leading to such a pernicious, creepy document being even considered, let alone written?
Success. This website has stormed from a standing start in January this year into the Total Politics Top 200 UK Top Political Blogs list, at position 161. Not as good as, say, position 156. But notably better than, say, position 166. And rising fast next year, in hot pursuit of […]
