++ Crass sexism alert ++ If you are trying to make me sound like a blinkered, narrow-minded sexist who believes a woman’s place is in the kitchen dressing a 1,200-pound moose she took down out back at dawn, you are absolutely right Vile. Quiet vile.
++ Crass sexism alert ++ If you are trying to make me sound like a blinkered, narrow-minded sexist who believes a woman’s place is in the kitchen dressing a 1,200-pound moose she took down out back at dawn, you are absolutely right Vile. Quiet vile.
Polly Toynbee at the Guardian is the latest victim of an appalling new medical condition, USTPDS (US Tea Party Derangement Syndrome). I mean, listen to this: Why bother with the great show of presidential elections when presidents are denied the power to match their pomp? The politics of miasma, where […]
I have joined the book review team of the LSE Politics blog. Here is one of my efforts on Blind Spots, a book which looks in quite an interesting way about how supposedly ethical judgements are made (or not) and shows how different subtle biases can creep in. However, it […]
Thinking of Lileks’ Regrettable Food took me back to his site. A terrible mistake. Because you sink deeper and deeper into his world of baffling imagery from the early twentieth century and lose hours of your life rolling in inane laughter. Such as a searching analysis of the artwork of Art […]
Off go assorted Crawfs to Turkey to fry by a pool for a couple of weeks. Blogging on this site will diminish if not disappear, I hope. I’ll be back towards the end of July. Warm summer regards to all readers. If you’re missing me, there’s plenty of unexpected things […]
More mega-comment web-factories are appearing, before our very eyes. Here is Iain Dale’s new Dale & Co. site, a self-styled current affairs mega-blog. I of course immediately click on World Affairs, and what do I find? Not much, including this curious little piece by one James Chartlton (sic), a trainee […]
I have linked here before to Johann Hari’s deliberate/incompetent/negligent – who knows? – misreading of one of the key passages in Atlas Shrugged: Thus Johann: … her contempt for ordinary people extends so far that when a railway worker in ‘Atlas Shrugged’ decides to punish the wicked socialist government by […]
Nosemonkey praises the energetic start of the Polish Presidency, not least a feisty speech by Polish PM Donald Tusk. The text of this important speech is not (as far as I can see) on the Polish Prime Minister’s official website, even in Polish. So we have to do with some […]
Check out this exchange where a Fletcher School graduate tries to correct a Reuters fact-blunder in a story, Reuters putting the School as part of Boston University (it in fact is part of Tufts University). What’s interesting is this part of their explanation: Regarding your request, please see the resolution […]
My article in DIPLOMAT about Diplomatic Loyalties has been recycled by Grassroot Diplomat, a site run by Talyn Rahman. She opens with this ambitious statement: Imagine this. You are a diplomat representing your birth country, but your heritage lies with two other states from your parents and you are married […]
