What a dire article over at Bloomberg by one Catherine Hickley, comparing the issues of the possible break-up of the Eurozone with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Here’s how not to write such things. First, it seems to me to stretch things a bit to describe the post-Soviet space […]
Here is my Commentator piece on the Wisconsin election: The key fact in last night’s Wisconsin recall election? Over 30 percent of households with a union member in them voted for Walker. A strong majority of people in Wisconsin got the core Tea Party political and moral message: stop unaffordable […]
I have linked here before to various wonderful stories and insights by Ray Bradbury who died this week after a long life of writing genius. The appreciations pour forth. Here is a nice one. Here is a rare example on the Internet of a full short story by him: ‘No […]
"It looked like the Romney campaign planted Dr Evil in the house of Obama and he said, ‘You know, on the day the grim job numbers come out let’s have someone who reeks of ornamental excess announce that the peasants can have a place at the table’. It’s just unbelievable." […]
Isn’t this just about the best summary of Europe’s problems you’ll see? Beyond briliant: … the unsustainable "bubble" is not student debt or subprime mortgages or anything else. The bubble is us, and the assumptions of entitlement. Too many citizens of advanced Western democracies live a life they have not […]
I have spent most of the Bank Holiday break mulling over daily cryptic crossword clues created by Leo Traynor and posted by him on Twitter @LeosClue. He has mustered about 1000 people grappling with his crafty clues to the point of submitting answers, the vast majority of which are wrong. […]
I’ve mentioned here previously the fact that Polish diplomats are under strict instructions to remonstrate strongly against any use of the expression ‘Polish concentration camps’ or the like to refer to the Nazi death camps built on Polish territory during WW2. Well, they have a fine opportunity to take this […]
Ann Althouse reminds us of a fascinating account of what was going on in President Gerald Ford’s mind when back in 1976 he made his ruinous observation (at least probably ruinous for his election chances) that there was "no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe": JIM LEHRER: Let’s go back at the […]
Here at Commentator is one I did today recalling (again) the infamous scheming actions of Harold Macmillan and other British soldiers in sending thousands of Yugoslavs to be murdered by Tito. Why did they do it? And what does it still mean?
Here for all Balkanphiliacs is an interview with me in the Belgrade publication Svedok. In the unlikely event you don’t speak Serbian and/or Google translator blows up under the pressure, here is the English text I sent them which as far as I can see has been reproduced in Serbian […]
