Just as we glumly slump in the face of another outburst from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the mighty Iowahawk strikes yet again. It takes rare erudition and even rarer imagination to link one of the world’s most famous poems (nearly 200 years old) to the fiercely straining underpants of a bratty American […]
Y’all never knew that way back I cut one superb if now little known soul record, did you? Well here’s the proof. Click on the link to listen: "Southern soul in the classic 6/8 tempo, delivered in the grand manner." Listening to it reminded me of this immortal line from […]
ADRg Ambassadors are now gathering nice momentum. After launching ourselves last year as the world’s first Ambassador-level mediation and consultancy panel, we have now reconstituted the group formally into an LLP. The plan is steadily to build the ‘brand’ by emphasising the way we can contribute to high-level corporate diplomacy. One way […]
I have written a piece for Financier Worldwide on the dark arts of negotiating in central and eastern Europe: The implicit view is that it is the outcome, not process, which really counts, and that the value of different outcomes can be measured. However, based on my experience as a […]
Remember my lyrical piece about Left student activism at Oxford back in the 1970s? No, you don’t. So read it now. And marvel at the taxonomy of assorted Lefts: Labour Party members and moderates: weedy, hopeful, useful idiots Broad Left: Labour Party members who sucked up to the Communists Communists: small in number, […]
The Queen’s Club will be celebrating it’s 125th Anniversary by hosting a sumptious ball for the Membership and their guests on Friday 8th July 2011. It will be the most spectacular party in the Club’s history Count me out.
If you want to die laughing, get over to Twitter and check out #ghettospellingbee. An unfeasibly long string of absurd jokes based on African-American speech puns. Thus: ruedoo CRueL RueL # HARASSMENT- My girl caught me talking to a chic at the club, but I told her, harassment nothing to me.ghettospellingbee […]
Researching a speech about Poland I came across the wise words of Thomas Banacek, a 1970s American TV Polish/American freelance insurance investigator who solved all sorts of improbable mysteries in part by delivering droll proverbs supposedly of Polish origin: When the wolf is chasing your sleigh, toss him a raisin cookie but […]
Here is the text of President Obama’s speech in Westminster Hall. Well received more for powerful delivery and ‘feel-good factor’ than substance. Before he left Washington the President gave an important speech on the upheavals across the Arab region and what it all meant for the Middle East. Text here. […]
My recent piece about the Amazing Vanishing Referendm in Republika Srpska was picked up by RFE/RL (in Serbian/Bosnian) and so got a rather wider Balkan readership than it otherwise might have done. Any normal person reading it might have thought that it (albeit in perhaps a sardonic and annoying way) […]
