My latest piece over at DIPLOMAT magazine looks at the policy and practice of ‘international interventions’ (or not): ‘The more precisely the position [of an electron] is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely’. This, as all clever Diplomat readers will know, is the classic formulation by […]
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski last week bcame the first Western Foreign Minister to visit Benghazi and meet the anti-Gaddafi leadership. Here at Project Syndicate are some of his conclusions: Peoples in transition from authoritarian rule – peaceful in Poland in 1989, bloody in Libya today – grapple with decisions […]
Network Myanmar, a lively source of information on Myanmar (previously known as Burma) welcomes the FCO announcement that the UK diplomatic presence in Myanmar is going to be increased (a bit), but then does a goodly job by pointing out one by one all sorts of errors on the Myanmar-related part […]
Here is a strange piece at Forbes which I picked up via Twitter by Anne Doyle, an American woman who is big on Powering Up! women in general. She quotes what she asserts to be three ‘stunning examples of the cultural headwinds that women are still up against’. What are […]
A couple of pieces on the subject of speechwriting, by people with some form. One by Brian Jenner: Any closing questions, comments or additional advice? Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead! The other by Simon […]
If you want a scintillating, furious polemic on why the Yes to AV campaign lost so heavily, go no further than Liberal Vision: The YES campaign was eminently winnable. But it ended up being run by readers of the Guardian for readers of the Guardian. Readers of this newspaper are […]
This one will run and run. And run. Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, senior Al Qaeda operative, has kindly communicated with us via a guest blog at Iowahawk to decribe what happens when his new room-mate arrives in Paradise (RUDE WORD ALERT ADVISORY): Yo brosephus, what’s crackalackin’ with the booty smackin’? Longtime […]
Mark Steyn with disarming honesty mulls over his 2002 assertion that Osama Bin Laden was well and truly dead: As things turned out, I was a tad, ah, premature Read it for a reprise of some earlier Steyn classics, including various high-profile punters analysing Osama’s 2001 video message: ROBERT FISK, foreign correspondent, The […]
Max Atkinson praises President Obama’s ‘masterful mood changes’ exemplified in part by his Osama Bin Laden televised address last night. You can see and read it at https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead Yet it’s much too long, with (as usual) too much Obama praising Obama, plus some of it is, ahem, just ghastly: […]
Just to announce the good news that today I have joined the network of writers affiliated with Gotham Ghostwriters: New York City’s only world-class, full-service writing firm. We specialize in sophisticated, long-form writing (such as books, speeches, articles/op-eds, white papers, and corporate reports) for clients in the thought leadership arena (businesses, […]
